Preparing your Android app for Chromebooks

How do bring your awesome Android app to Chromebook? Read on to find out.

Does your app have personal content

Does your app have personal content? Help your users find it directly from the Google app for Android, even when they’re offline

The danger of using getSimpleName() as TAG for Fragment

When we want to add a Fragment into a container of an Activity, we’ll normally use a TAG as it’s ID. What’s a good TAG name we could use?

Introducing ExpandableRecyclerView

Introducing Expandable RecyclerView: an open source library for expanding and collapsing groups using `RecyclerView.Adapter`.

Android Complexify

Android port of Dan Palmers's jquery.complexify.js.

SparkleMotion

A ViewPager animator that animates Views within pages as well as views across pages.

ChompProgressView

A (semi) realistic chomping progress view that takes bites out of your delicious images! Nom! Nom!

Best Practices in App Security

Smartphone apps demand security and data privacy. Here are some things we’ve learned in our mobile banking industry experience.

App Launch time & Bloated Application objects (Android Performance Patterns Season 6 Ep. 3)

One of the hangups of having an awesome, modern, complex mobile application is all the stuff you gotta do to get it working just so the user is happy. It seems counter-intuitive then, that when you do all that stuff before the app boots up, it actually causes unhappy users.

UsbDeviceConnection

This class is used for sending and receiving data and control messages to a USB device. Instances of this class are created by openDevice(UsbDevice).