mhighsmith 
Oreo: Coming Soon To A Phone Near You? It’s been just over 10 months since Android’s newest version (Oreo) began rolling out to devices. Almost a year, so let’s take a second to see how it’s doing. Well…it may be performing really well in terms of quality, but quantity is lacking. How bad are we talking? Every month Google releases …
Google Fined…For Giving Users Google? Almost everyone worldwide knows about the divide between Android and iOS. How could you not? We hear people brag about how their operating system is in every way superior to the other and people are fools for giving business to the other end of the spectrum. But competition happens on different tiers and the …
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 …
Google Pay: Sharing Is Caring Earlier this year Android Pay and Google Wallet combined forces to create Google Pay, a one-step payment process for Android users. The app has featured online payments with certain websites/apps by initially linking a credit card and then checking out in the future with one click. More technologically impressive it uses NFC (Near Field Communication) …
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. …