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New stuff for devs: On-device app encyrption. Smart app updates that only send out the part of the apps that have changed. Google Cloud Messaging which is C2DM on steroids.
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Anyone used or have any comments about Crittercism? Looks like something along the lines of BugSense, but with more features. What has my interest piqued is that the feature list mention an in-app support forum for your apps...which sounds like a cool idea.
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Jun 28, 2012 01:54
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Scaevolus posted:They say it makes the average update 1/3 as large, but hopefully it's better for big apps where most updates are minor code changes. Yeah, that seems likely.
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Jun 30, 2012 00:06
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duck monster posted:This, by the way, is why we have so much trouble at work with android compared to IOS. For whatever reason (I suspect its the demographics of IOS buyers, as well as apples tighter control over the software delivery chain) Most people just can't upgrade their devices to newer versions. The manufactuers haven't released updates for their devices. Like...Google just came out with Android 4.1. The great majority of devices on the market today will never even have the option of getting that update.
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Jun 30, 2012 16:43
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UraniumAnchor posted:I need to write something that sends a Notification at some point in the future. Might be a few minutes, might be a few hours. It does NOT need to persist through a device reset, but it needs to persist even if the app gets closed and/or loses focus. Nothing fancy, just a text reminder. Use these three things: AlarmManager PendingIntent BroadcastReceiver Basically you'll set an alarm with AlarmManager. You'll set that alarm with a broadcast PendingIntent pointed at your BroadcastReceiver class. When the alarm fires it will run the BroadcastReceiver and in that class you can display your Notification. Hooray!
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Jul 12, 2012 23:25
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mugrim posted:I did some VERY minor programming in high school (C++ class for like a year), would it be absolutely insane to try and learn how to make an Android App? You'll probably want to read a Java book first, but it's certainly possible.
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Jul 27, 2012 20:48
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Mr. Crow posted:This thread doesn't see much activity... is Android that bad to work on or what? Android development isn't wonderful by any means, but I don't think it has anything to do with the activity level in this thread. I mean, it's apparent that Android development is wide-spread, I think its just that there's better resources for getting help a lot of the time.
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Sep 28, 2012 22:37
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Glimm posted:I should probably update the OP more often as it seems like useful Android libraries are popping up every week. That would be something I'd like to see more posts about. I always miss out on new libraries until they've been out for 2 years or something.
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Sep 29, 2012 01:56
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Glimm posted:awesome Well hot drat. This makes me want to write an app or two. I wish I didn't have a ton of projects going on already.
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Sep 29, 2012 03:14
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Awesome and accurate-ish. I don't do Android for a living, but I think I've touched all of those problems at least once. I mostly solve the Android headaches by not caring about anyone not running a new Nexus device!
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Sep 29, 2012 03:31
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Geekner posted:Yup, just ran into something weird with how the newest RAZR handles Cursors in Awful.apk, it's auto-closing them while they are still in use. It's causing constant crashes for one specific phone model. We handle cursors using the newest API and have zero issues with that code on every other phone out there. The worst part of this is that you just know there's almost zero chance of a fix. I mean, you can kind of hope that a phone will get one update...ever. But, the chances of low-level stuff like this getting fixed in that one update are low. The one manufacturer issue that still irritates me to this day is that on several (most?) (all?) Motorola phones, the location provider just doesn't report an accuracy figure. It's always zero. Grr.
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Oct 22, 2012 17:58
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Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:Building a mental model of exactly what is happening at any given point is really loving difficult because the activity lifecycle is awful, and it gets worse when you mix in Fragments. PROTIP: attaching and detaching your fragments doesn't necessarily correspond to onAttach and onDetach. Yes to this!
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Dec 4, 2012 20:37
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Gnack posted:Basically I'm wondering if anyone knows of any books, tutorials, web sites etc that cover this kind of topic - graphics in games - at a reasonably abstract, language agnostic level? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2692947
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Apr 24, 2013 16:57
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Google just announced Android Studio, which is an Android IDE based on IntelliJ.
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May 15, 2013 17:30
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jkyuusai posted:Oh my god this android studio demo is amazing. Yes it is. I also like how they're using the best Jetbrains theme: Darkula.
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May 15, 2013 17:31
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jkyuusai posted:Hmm how will this affect intellij's monetization? I assume Google isn't going to charge for AS. Intellij Community Edition is free. In other news you can now do beta testing and staged rollouts via the developer console.
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May 15, 2013 17:39
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I haven't touched Android development in a year or so, but I have to say this IO has made me want to pick it up again. A little bit.
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May 16, 2013 17:02
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I haven't done any Android development in like 18 months or something, but my grandma(!!) has been pestering me for a bible(!!!) app with easier/faster navigation than what she can find on the Play store. I don't know the keywords to describe the library I'm looking for, so maybe someone can point me in the right direction. I'm wanting a vertical scrollbar that pops up a tooltip to the left or right as you drag the bar up and down describing where the view will jump to when you let go of the bar. So, for example, if she's looking in the book of Matthew, when she starts scrolling on the right of the screen, it pops a tooltip-ish thing to the left of the scrollbar showing which book she will jump to when she lets go. The scrollbar won't necessarily be connected to the text in the view as I might have each book or chapter or something be separate. So, anyway, are there any libraries like that?
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Jul 8, 2013 18:20
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Tunga posted:This reply is kind of late and I'm only just learning Android so I might be off here. Yes, this is it! Thanks.
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Jul 18, 2013 20:53
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It's been 3 years since I dabbled around with Android development, and I'm thinking about jumping back in to a REST CRUD app. Any cool useful libraries I should check out for that sort of app that aren't mentioned in the OP? (or just cool libraries in general) I see Android Studio is A Thing now. Should I just use that?
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Oct 13, 2014 23:13
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I'm looking at various option for designing the architecture for the app I just mentioned I was going to start work on. I found this post describing a way of architecting an MVC REST app. Any other resources like that anyone can recommend? Web or book would be great.
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Oct 15, 2014 00:51
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PiCroft posted:Does anyone else struggle with Android tools? I've done both iOS and Android, and I coped well with both but by far the worst thing I've experienced in my career as a software developer is android tools. All the IDEs for android that I've tried, including Eclipse and Android Studio are a nightmare to get working with a mature project and getting a project with multiple modules working with Gradle was a headache. Does anyone else struggle with the tools as much as I do, or is it just me? I haven't done android in years. Glad to hear the tools are still poo poo. I keep thinking about starting back into it and then I remember dealing with all the stuff outside of actually writing code and I just give up.
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Dec 18, 2014 23:41
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Libraries are one of the best parts about programming! Implement cool, well-tested functionality without all the work of doing it yourself. Go forth and use all the libraries. (replace work of implementing functionality with work of finding appropriate library)
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Mar 25, 2015 14:27
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hooah posted:But the second way creates a new object every time, right? Is the language ease worth the overhead in this case? Generally the answer to these sorts of questions is: don't worry about it unless it becomes a problem.
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Jul 21, 2015 17:35
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Glimm posted:React Native for Android is now available: I'm excited to get back into Android dev with this. React for the web is fantastic.
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Sep 14, 2015 20:22
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Karthe posted:I read recently that JSX isn't required to work with React, but how recommended is it? I've kinda ignored React because I didn't want to bother learning "something-like-Javascript-but-not-quite" but now that I know I can use plain vanilla Javascript, and now that React Native is out, I'm considering playing around with it. Either way is completely supported...at least on web. I haven't looked at React Native yet. edit: I finally got around to looking at it and...only OS X is supported. :/ Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Sep 15, 2015 02:14
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I just pay for the cheap Github plan (i think $7/month) for private repos. I like Github over the alternatives enough and it's convenient to have access to my repos wherever along with another place my code is backed up.
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Nov 11, 2015 17:34
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Is there something like this article except for Android development? I haven't touched Android dev in probably 4 years, so I'm probably horribly out of date...
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Jan 22, 2016 20:59
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I'm idly thinking about doing an Android app again for the first time in years. Lately I've been doing a lot of web work with React...does anyone here have anything to say about React Native for Android development?
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Apr 14, 2016 19:19
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speng31b posted:This isn't a development question. Ehh, it's develop-y enough that I'd say that this thread is the best fit to tell the poster what's needed (i.e. that they need a developer).
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May 3, 2016 00:50
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Build a time machine and go back to when the iPhone was released and make an app.
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May 30, 2016 14:46
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You could try React Native. It's pretty cool.
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Oct 7, 2016 23:51
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speng31b posted:I disagree, and I've used it pretty extensively. I gave it a fighting shot - we have a lot of JS devs in our office, and it made sense to try to build some crossover. It's just not production-ready, stable, maintainable, or fine for building a really good UX. But probably not the time for a long form rant. Interesting. I've only built some toy apps with it, but I haven't really heard people talking about it like you.
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Oct 8, 2016 00:29
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Lutha Mahtin posted:The only differences I see between this way and mine is that (1) I'm ignoring a different file and (2) the string reference in the code will be named a bit differently. Is it really considered "less clean" to ignore /app/src/main/res/values/totallysecret.xml versus doing the Gradle thing? My way still gives me fields to use in my code, the only difference is that instead of your BuildConfig.SECRETSQUIRREL I put on my robe and R.string.SECRETSQUIRREL hat. Now you have two separate files storing configuration information. A bespoke one and a standardized one.
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Mar 30, 2017 14:50
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Volguus posted:It is. So? Scala was even older until it picked up a bit of steam. And even after 6 years, I am not aware of any other IDEs (than JetBrains) supporting this language. Not saying is bad (it isnt). It's just ... meh. Nice for a couple of personal projects for sure, but more of a curiosity, nothing else. This is a weird position you're taking. It sounds like you're saying it's an improvement, but...well I don't know what goes after the "but" here. Are you actually saying its worse than Java?
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May 17, 2017 22:25
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Besides, AFAIK, the JVM is widely considered to be pretty performant. I don't think anyone serious is really thinking the performance of Java or the JVM is holding back Android, but I'll admit I don't follow Android dev too closely.
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May 18, 2017 00:44
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What would keep me from using Kotlin is (I'm assuming) the dearth of examples and SnackOverflow questions and blog posts about doing X in Android compared to doing the same in Java. The same thing that keeps me from using Elm (which is awesome) on web frontend projects. I'm too dumb and need lots of help.
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May 18, 2017 00:55
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Lutha Mahtin posted:so it's just a different syntax? if so, lol @ u nerds spurtin about it That's what every different language boils down to.
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May 18, 2017 14:22
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Doh004 posted:Gotcha, that's more related to app support which is good to know - I'm actually asking about the business development people? Who manages the Play Store categories? How do you get featured more prominently? Set up partnerships between the two etc. I do not know the answer to your questions, but I do know Google. I would bet that its almost all algorithmic.
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Jun 22, 2017 16:28
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Volguus posted:Well, i don't know. The users would use our app to create a thing that then it would be saved into their account online (our web application). That thing needs a name before it can be saved, so the save button pops up a dialog asking for the name and off it goes. Now, one could say that this operation can be called Upload and they'd be kinda right, but to be fair I'm not so sure that Upload is better than Save. At the end of the day is about semantics. The app (the entire solution in general) is targeted at developers not average joe six-pack, so they should most likely know what is going on. If its any help, a common paradigm is that its just automatically saved with some sort of name like "Untitled". Google Docs for example.
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