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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When starting out with Android development, one of the challenges you may face is trying to update the user interface (UI) with new information. It’s simple to do if the information is something predetermined like a constant string. However, in most cases, you’ll find yourself needing to show new information […]
For this post, I have Michael Kordvani, a tech blogger and mobile developer, to talk about some ways you can optimize your Android apps.
In part 2, you learned about the Model View Presenter (MVP) architecture. As a brief refresher, the MVP model is a popular choice when you want to write Android code that is easy to test. It is an architecture that keeps the business logic and user interface (UI) logic separate […]
In part 1, you have learned about the different types of tests that are available for Android. As a quick refresher, there are two types of test. One is pure java test, which only requires the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to run and doesn’t require any dependency on the Android […]
If you have not been writing a lot of tests for your Android projects, you might fit it difficult to start. You really want to write tests for your Android projects, but you find it really difficult to do. There are multiple factors that contribute to this, but one of […]
It is important to test your app. It is a key factor in helping you provide an excellent user experience with your app. So, what if you wanted to get started with writing tests in Android? This post will help you understand the basic to get you up and running.
Sometimes you may need to support different languages in your application that is independent of the Android system language. The Android framework makes supporting multiple languages simple, but it is dependent on the Android system language. To overcome the limitation of the Android framework language support, you can modify your […]
