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Why a startup can save you from boredom.

by admin|27 July 201626 April 2018|Self-improvement

Don’t be afraid to change job if you feel bored! It is in the human nature to find a secure shed where we can feel protected and relaxed. We tend to do that in everything, when we buy an house,...

Exploring Android Animations

by admin|12 June 201626 April 2018|UI

Are you a designer or a developer who would like to add a fine touch to your android application? Animations can help to create a better mental model of your app and a better understanding of content changes. The android.view.animation...

Social Media Authentication for your views and your backend.

by admin|22 February 201626 April 2018|Good Architecture, Libraries

Are you one of those guys who tried to use the FirebaseUI library and got stuck with the built-in authentication dialog because it doesn't allows you to use your own layout? Or did you tried to integrate Facebook, Twitter and Google sign-in...

Getting started with Firebase while moving away from Parse.

by admin|12 February 201626 April 2018|Good Architecture

The announcement that Facebook will shut down Parse on January 28, 2017 has definitely generated a lot of rumors and concerns in the development community. Unfortunately, there are a lot of us who have chosen Parse in the past to...

Dependency injection: why and how?

by admin|30 January 201627 April 2018|Front Page, Good Architecture

If you are interested in boosting the quality of your code then you should definitely start looking into ways to promote reusability, testability and low-coupling. There are plenty of software design patterns that you can follow to do that, however...

Automate your graphics to support multiple screens.

by admin|22 January 201627 April 2018|Front Page, Trik and Tips, UI

With new android devices coming out every day it is difficult to make sure that your images look best on any screen. To achieve this goal you and your graphic designer have to do a hell of a work to...

Blending pixels.

by admin|27 December 201526 April 2018|UI

In this blog post I am providing you with a tool which will help to understand the possibilities behind PorterDuff modes without the need to study the PorterDuff composing algebra. In simple words, you will be able to make a droid appear on a...

Theming your images.

by admin|20 December 201526 April 2018|UI

Have you ever considered theming the images of your app? If you have a predominant color in your theme or graphics, then you can achieve great tone consistency across your app by simply adding a color filter to your images. (more…)

Automate naming conventions.

by admin|13 December 201526 April 2018|Trik and Tips

As any repeating task that could be automated to save time and prevent human mistakes, adhering to coding conventions could be considered as one of those tasks. If you haven't automated yet your coding conventions because you thought that it was difficult to...

Add a copyright notice to your code.

by admin|08 December 201526 April 2018|How I did it last time?

For the series "How I did it last time?", it's better if this time I write it down to avoid to google it again. How do I add a custom copyright notice to my android projects? (more…)

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