How to Create and Publish Your First Android Library
Sooner or later every Android developer accumulates a fair amount of ready-made solutions and decides that it would be great to share them with the rest of the world. Unfortunately, most of us never get down to it since every solution should be turned into a separate library and put into a separate open repository.
Android WebSocket. Feedback, or When Every Second Matters
Apps that are using network communicate with the server by executing queries and receiving answers. Server acts as an information desk providing answers to any questions and accepting inquiries made in a certain way to further process and save them.
Saving Data In Android Using Realm
How to save data for your mobile application? There’re three possible ways: Shared preferences/User defaults, files and databases. When choosing which one to use you should take into account the volume of data your app will work with, mobile data type and what exactly you’ll be doing with the data.
DataBinding: How To Develop Android Apps Faster
Every time you look at those numerous lines of code with findViewById and ternary operations with visibility you want Cthulhu to finally revel across the Earth so you don’t have to see it anymore, don’t you? But trust me, there’s a way. And we will show it to you under cut.
Hi everybody! I think everyone has already watched Android L presentation and saw its revolutionary innovations for Android material design platform. Well, it won’t take long to get the release; and for now attentive users could notice the emergence of new design elements in some applications. My attention was drawn to «Play Press» update. It looks and feels really revolutionary; I got stuck for a few minutes, and even began to look through the press.
Google Analytics for Android. Behavior
Today I got an opportunity to organize analytics for one rather big commercial project. Even though I have enough experience in such events, I had to deal with some surprises. The first one was a new GA SDK v4, which, by the way, the SDK Manager didn't even offer to update, considering v3 to be the latest. But this is logical, because at the moment all the tools for GA are in Google Play Services SDK.
2d game development on Android: looking for ideas
Hi everybody! For more than two weeks our studio has been working hard on a new project. We are developing a 2d top-down shooter and a little unusual perspective for characters (we are discussing it later). Now is the time to tell all about it. This is the first post from a series about developing a two-dimensional game on Android.
Google Maps Markers Clustering On Android
Often, when drafting a project a situation arises where the assigned tasks are difficult to solve by existing standard development tools. Then third-party resources come to the aid in the form of libraries and other goodies. So it happened with our newly developed application MegaSOS for Android platform. But let me cover each thing in its turn.
