Category: android
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Variable Fonts in Android O 🖍
This post initially appeared here. After attending DroidCon Italy 2018 last week, I was excited by the presentation from Nick Butcher and Florina Muntenescu. They spoke about many different aspects related to Text on Android including Spans, Colours, and AutoSizing TextViews, but the one thing that caught my eye was Variable Fonts. This was the first time I had heard about…
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42MB to display account information?! Use the Android APK Analyzer to reduce your APK size!
After looking around at a few Android applications, I realised that there are many developers who don’t know about a great tool in Android Studio — the Android APK Analyzer. I cringe when I go to download a basic application (most of these apps are really simple) and the download size is over 40MB. Whenever…
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Android ConstraintLayout — Build a layout from Scratch + Q&A — Sunday (26 Nov) 5PM GMT+2 [Live Stream]
I’ve seen quite a lot of misuse/misunderstanding of how to use ConstraintLayout practically. I was contemplating the best way to talk about these common “Don’ts” that I see people do. I’ve decided to try do something a bit different than a blog post. I’ll be live streaming on Sunday, 26 November at 5PM GMT+2 (that…
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Android Accessibility – Making your app Switch Access Compatible
I received an email a few days ago, where I had a request for the Book Dash Android app to support “Switch Access”. To be honest, I had no idea what this email meant. My first thought was, “Hey, this will never run on a Nintendo Switch” but I realised that this probably wasn’t what…
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Highlights from Google Developer Days Europe 2017 – Kraków, Poland
This past week I was in Kraków for the Google Developer Days Europe Conference and the Google Developer Experts Summit. There was a lot to learn about new technology and I enjoyed meeting and spending time with many developers from across the globe. I didn’t know much about Kraków before visiting but I’m really thankful…
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Android Architecture Components – Looking at Lifecycles – Part 3
In the previous posts (part 1 and part 2), we looked into the new Architecture Components that were announced at Google I/O 2017. The Android Architecture components are a welcome addition to the Android Platform. Previously, it was difficult to architect Android applications as there were no official guidelines. The new Architecture Components help solve…
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Android Architecture Components – Looking at ViewModels – Part 2
The Android Architecture components were recently announced at Google I/O 2017. There are a few different components that are a part of these libraries. These components can be used in isolation but work really well when used together. In the previous blog post, we looked at using Room and LiveData. Make sure you read that…