Customizing Android ListView Rows by Subclassing
AndroidEvery Android programmer will at some point customize a ListView row by creating their own layout and populating it with data. When that happens,...
Designing Glassware
AndroidI recently attended a Google Glass Design Sprint hosted by the Glass team. I’ve been working on various Glassware since July, but this was...
Standing out from the Crowd at Big Nerd Ranch Bootcamps
AndroidWhat drives me as an instructor is my desire to connect with my students. To know what they want to learn and why they...
Building Animations with the android.transition Framework, Part 2
AndroidIn the (/blog/building-animations-android-transition-framework-part-1/), we took a first look at the `(http://developer.android.com/reference/android/transition/package-summary.html)` framework and started following the evolution of our (https://github.com/bolot/AndroidTransitionExample) project. In this...
Building Animations with the android.transition Framework, Part 1
AndroidWith KitKat, Google brought a number of welcome additions to Android. Today, we’ll focus on one of them, the android.transition framework.
A Crash Course In AWK
AndroidA while back, MarkD wrote a great series of posts on DTrace. I’d never been exposed to DTrace—I assumed it was similar to strace....
Solving the Android image loading problem: Volley vs. Picasso
AndroidShould you use Volley or Picasso to load images in your app? We weigh image downloading components in Android app development.
Exploring SlidingPaneLayout
AndroidAndroid developers spend a lot of time developing tablet versions of their applications.
Google I/O: Lots Of Android Love
AndroidHave you ever sat through a three-hour presentation? Has anyone ever even asked you to?
Testing the Android way
AndroidAs a Rails developer, I learned the benefits of a test-driven style, and I never want to go back to the old style of...
A Rule of Thumb For Controller Code
Android(Special guest posting by Bill Phillips, Android Bootcamp instructor, coauthor of the forthcoming book Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, and Clash of...
