There is never enough time in the day to do everything you planned to do. Has it happened to you where you have a list of things to do and then at the end of the day, you barely got through half of it?
You have probably asked yourself the question of when or what to optimize in your app. It is not an easy question to answer because there are many factors involved in making the decision. There are always tradeoffs in software development and it is not any different for optimization — […]
Many software developers are uncomfortable with trying out new technologies. They believe that they need to learn something new all over again. They start to think back to when they started learning the technologies they use presently and think “I don’t want to go through that again”. The knowledge that […]
The number of technologies out there is growing day-by-day. This can make it very difficult for you to figure out how you can increase your software developer skills. While it is nearly impossible to guess what is the best programming language you should be mastering there are a few skills […]
Does this sound familiar? You recently became a software developer and you worked with someone who is really good at software development. They are so good that you set a goal to be just as good as this person in the future.
If you are new to Android development, you might have read up about activity and fragment and think they are similar. You may not be sure when to use one over the other. The purpose of this post is to help go over the basics of an activity and a […]
Customer retention for an application is a difficult problem to handle. Your application may have a lot to offer, but if the execution of it is lacking then you will lose your users. An app without any users is almost the equivalent of the app not existing. In this post, […]
Battery life is important for a mobile device. So, when a user downloads and uses your app they expect your app to value battery life. That means if your app is a battery hog, then it won’t be long before your app gets uninstalled. It doesn’t matter how amazing your […]
Whether you like or dislike pair programming, pair programming is becoming more common. Some companies encourage it, while others made it part of the work culture. Thus, it is important that you familiarize yourself with pair programming and how to make the most out of it.
AsyncTask is a helper class that makes performing a background task and updating the user interface (UI) painless. The class takes care of the communication between the background thread and the main UI thread. All you have to do is override some methods in the AsyncTask class to perform the […]
