Android Using Android Data Binding adapters with Dagger 2 Updated 22/04/19 to include Kotlin code samples and use latest version of Dagger Android. The typical method of implementing a binding adapter using the Android Data Binding Library is to create
Android Android Data Binding with Robolectric 3 Just over a week ago at Google I/O Google announced the new Data Binding library. If, like me, you were keen to give it a try and dropped it into an existing
Ghost Offline editing app for Ghost gets some material sweetness I started work on this back in September but it stalled due to other commitments and sat on the hard drive of my Mac for a few weeks. The release of Android 5.
Android Styling the SearchView with AppCompat v21 (material theme) Earlier versions of the AppCompat-v7 library conveniently exposed a huge number of styling attributes that were hidden in the standard holo themes. A number of these attributes allowed customisation of the SearchView widget
Android Moto X Finally, after a 20,000 km trip starting in China and stopping of in Hong Kong and the USA, my Moto X has arrived! This is the walnut back with silver trim.
Android Android PIN entry widget In a number of Android projects I've worked on we've had a requirement for a PIN code entry screen, something which is sadly lacking from the Android SDK. I started working on this
Android Updating navigation drawer icon to the material theme Over the last couple of weeks many of the Google Android apps have been updated to support the Lollypop material theme. One of the noticeable changes is the new spinning hamburger for apps
Android Updating Android apps to use the material theme With the release of the Android Lollypop SDK, Google have also updated the support libraries. The good news is that the AppCompat library already contains support for the new material theme so you
Android View source of any JAR in Android Studio Although most of the good Android libraries are open source, occasionally you get stuck with a third party JAR or two that doesn't have source available, or good documentation, or both. Music streaming
Android Installing sqlite on a rooted Android phone. Many rooting tools install the sqlite3 binary by default, but the pre-rooted rom on my SGS seems to be an exception, so here is a guide to install it manually. You will need
