November 2015

Following the inaugural Android Dev Summit

by admin|23 November 201526 April 2018|Conferences

The Android engineering team of Google has just kicked-off two days of tech talks for its Android followers. As many developers who could not be in Mountain View for the live event, I am just watching the streaming from one of...

My journey at the first Big Android BBQ in Europe (day 2).

by admin|13 November 201526 April 2018|Conferences

In the post about my first day at the Dutch BABBQ, I have spent quite some good words for the speakers who really deserved them, but I have been also quite harsh in expressing my little disappointment about the location and the overall organization....

My journey at the first Big Android BBQ in Europe (day 1).

by admin|12 November 201526 April 2018|Conferences

At Coolblue, where I am currently working, I have a certain budget to attend conferences and follow trainings. Thanks to this possibility, I have participated at the inaugural EuroBBQ: the first Big Android BBQ Event held in Europe. This kind of event seems to be...

Publish your library to jCenter in 3 steps!

by admin|11 November 201527 April 2018|Front Page, Gradle, Libraries

I believe that you have copied your code from one project to the other at least a few times in your carrier as software developer. That's normal, nobody want to create the same utilities or custom widgets all over again; copy&paste is...

Spice up your ViewPager (part2): change animation type.

by admin|07 November 201526 April 2018|UI

In the first post of the series "Spice up your ViewPager", I have described how to control the speed of the horizontal scroll in order to make smoother and cleaner transitions between pages. In this second post instead, I am going...