Tap into your Creativity with our Mobile Design Bootcamps
Android Design iOSGet ready to tap into your creativity alongside the Nerds. Designers, developers and project managers: join us for our new Android Mobile Design and...
Triumph! Android Studio 1.2 Sneaks In Full Testing Support
AndroidI’m calling it. We’ve been monitoring the state of testing in the Android world for some time now, waiting for the day when testing...
An Adventure in Hacking Arduino Firmata with NeoPixels
Android iOSLearn ALL the things! That’s basically the motto at Big Nerd Ranch. And in my last post, I wrote about how my team, The...
Hacking Arduino Firmata with NeoPixels
Android Back-End Full-Stack Web iOSWe recently had our annual app-building competition, Clash of the Coders. It’s a fantastic opportunity for us nerds to experiment with unfamiliar technologies, stretching ourselves and...
Continuous Delivery for Android
AndroidQuite a few continuous integration tools exist, but as soon as you narrow it down to options that properly support Android, it becomes much...
An Investigation into Flow and Mortar
AndroidIn our ({{ site.baseurl }}/training/courses/android/), we teach that using Fragments is the right way to go (especially for beginners), and we also use...
What is Functional Reactive Programming?
AndroidFunctional Reactive Programming (FRP) offers a fresh perspective on solving modern programming problems. Once understood, it can greatly simplify your project, especially when it...
Extracting Colors to a Palette with Android Lollipop
AndroidEditor’s Note:n This post has been updated since its initial release. The generate(Bitmap) and generate(Bitmap, PaletteAsyncListener) methods have been deprecated in favor of a builder static...
All in Together: Android Studio, Gradle and Robolectric
Android ClientsIn May of 2014, we made the switch to Android Studio as our preferred Android IDE, migrating away from Eclipse in our ({{...
RecyclerView Part 2: Choice Modes
AndroidLet's take another look at choice modes in Android Lollipop's RecyclerView.
‘Port’ Isn’t a Dirty Word: Moving your iOS Apps to Android
Android Design iOSFor a designer, the word “port” can be cringe-inducing. By definition, a port is an application adapted from one environment to another. However, what...
Implementing Swipe to Refresh, an Android Material Design UI Pattern
AndroidOne of the great ideas formalized in the new Material Design user interface guidelines is the (http://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/swipe-to-refresh.html). In fact, you've...
