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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Since my initial blog post about ConstraintLayout, there have been a whole bunch of new features added (and lots of improvements) to ConstraintLayout. This blog post aims to cover some of the new features, namely Guidelines, Barriers, Chains and Groups. Some of these features require using Android Studio 3.0 Beta 5 and the beta version of […]