Developers and UX
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 […]
Send an Android broadcast to a device using adb
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 […]
Android & Genymotion emulators with Charles proxy
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 […]
Parse Cloud Code with Multiple Javascript Source Files
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, […]
Why I Ditched ButterKnife
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 […]
Specify Custom View Style in Constructor
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 […]
Microsoft’s Trojan Horse
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. […]
Android Fragments and initialisation data
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 […]
iOS UIPageViewController full screen in Swift
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 […]
Android RecyclerView
I wrote a post a while back describing the View Holder pattern that should be used with the Android ListView in order to improve the performance of the ListView. That […]