In the last 10 months with my Moto 360, a lot of people asked me tons of questions about smartwatches and Android wear. These questions are divided into two categories. How useful smartwatches are, and what apps can you build for them.
When you are a programmer you spend most of your time writing code. But, at some point, you need to write a piece of code which will generate another code. In Java, you can do it with JavaPoet, a library for generating Java source files.
When people talk about Android performance they generally talk about writing a cleaner and faster Java code, while completely ignoring the layout files. Slow layout rendering can have a huge impact on your application’s performance. Layout files with unnecessary views are hard to read and they can slow your application down. In this blog post I will share 5 tips which can help you write efficient and clean xml layout.
It has been 6 months since I bought my Moto 360 and when someone sees it for the first time the question is always the same: “What are you using it for?”. So, I decided to write this blog post, which will hopefully answer this question and give you an insight on how I use it.
Adding a ScrollView inside ScrollView can be difficult. Most of the times it won’t end well. You will end up adding few workarounds and a person maintaining your code will probably hate you for the rest of his life. Fortunately, with NestedScrollView class this becomes much easier.
If you always wanted to know how to draw multiline text on canvas you came to the right place. Meet StaticLayout, your new best friend when it comes to drawing text on canvas.
Few months ago I had to create a custom Action Bar and one of the problems that came up was changing the title text. I wanted something new and something wild.
Two years in a row I participated in a student IT competition called TVZ Mobile Challenge Cup (TVZ Mc2). First year as a competitor and afterwards I helped organize it. Here is what I have learned.
