Firebase Database Functions
For the latest re-write of my cricket quiz app I’m using Firebase realtime database. One of the data items I want to store in it are the users’ Firebase notifications […]
For the latest re-write of my cricket quiz app I’m using Firebase realtime database. One of the data items I want to store in it are the users’ Firebase notifications […]
On my last contract I was very distant from the users of the app I was working on. I don’t mean distant geographically, or distant emotionally; I mean distant in […]
This is another of those posts that’s really a reminder to myself about how to do something, something that I do so infrequently that I forget it in between times […]
I use Charles proxy when developing any Android app. I permanently have Charles open and the Android device that I’m running/testing the app on proxying through Charles. Usually I use […]
I’m using Parse as the backend platform for my new app, for both Android and iOS. It’s very simple to integrate into apps using their native sdk; and very powerful, […]
UPDATE (22nd June 2016) I have just found an Android Studio plugin to remove ButterKnife – details at the end of this post. I was recently working on an Android […]
When you extend an Android View or one of it’s sub-classes to create your own custom view, there are three constructors you can define:
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public View (Context context) public View (Context context, AttributeSet attrs) public View (Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) |
You can read about them […]
There’s been a lot of talk recently about Microsoft vs Google, how the perception of the two is changing, and how Microsoft are planning to compete in the mobile market. […]
I’ve seen too many people initialising fragments with data by overriding the fragment constructor, passing the data in the constructor parameters, and assigning it to private fields where it can be […]
I followed this excellent tutorial on how to use a UIPageViewController to present a series of screens as an introduction on the first start of an app. The tutorial uses storyboards in […]