Apps Need Room To Breathe!

Apps Need Room To Breathe! Android is a complex operating system.  There’s a lot more variable when developer for Android.  Things are unpredictable when it comes to knowing what phone your user will be on.  There’s literally no limit to how many different kinds of phones could be running Android on a given day.  If you don’t know what you’re …

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The Six Degrees Of Activity Lifecycles

The Six Degrees Of Activity Lifecycles As an Android developer, one of the most fundamental concepts that you’ll learn about is Activities.  Activities are a Java class that focus on a single thing that users can do.  Many involve user interactions, and in most apps on your phone you can think of each page of the app as an activity.  …

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Making Material Design Work For You

Making Material Design Work For You So you’ve built an app.  You’ve come up with a million dollar idea and you’re ready to build it and market it to the masses.  The concept is there and you know enough to develop it.  But does it look…good? There’s a lot more to that one simple question than we initially see.  No …

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Keeping Your Keys Safe

Keeping Your Keys Safe At some point in your app development career, you’ll create an app that has secrets.  By this I mean there will be keys inside that you want to keep secure from prying eyes.  If someone else gets a hold of your private info, the results could be disastrous (or expensive). Let’s say your app uses Amazon …

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Google I/O, Until Next Year

Google I/O, Until Next Year Well Google I/O is a wrap everyone, and if you tuned in then hopefully you left with some cool takeaways.  If not then don’t worry, that’s what we’re here for.  When the conference first kicked off we wrote about day 1 and its highlights, but obviously the fun didn’t stop there.  The following is a …

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