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Book Dash Android App

I have been working on this app for a couple of months and I am SOOO excited to share it with everyone. The app that I have made is for a NPO called Book Dash. Their cause has inspired me and I decided I wanted to make an app for them that would showcase their […]

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Monthly Android Morsels [November 2015]

Just a small list of things related to Android development that I have found useful this month. Hope you find them useful too! Android Design: A nice new way to edit your theme and see its effect in Android Studio. Click Tools -> Android -> Theme Editor Android XML optimisation: Tired of creating dummy text […]

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[Github Library] Android Material Info Tutorial

I made a Github library to create an on-boarding activity for your Android application. It is inspired by the tutorial in the Google Sheets app. The library offers the ability to set a different background colour per slide. It transitions the colours into one another by calculating the colour between the one it’s transitioning to and where it is […]

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Android – Reduce the size of your APK files

If it is one thing that I hate – it is apps that are HUGE downloads for really simplistic functionality. 40MB for an app that just accesses some messages and has hardly any images, what is it doing?? I have recently had quite an obsession trying to reduce my app size and have managed to shave off […]

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Google Cloud Test Lab – and why you should care about it.

If you have worked on any really popular app you will know the pains involved in development: thousands of different devices, different configurations, or different versions of Android. Now we may think that we have the most of these devices covered but the inevitable will happen. You are bound to have some guy with some […]