In the past, splash screen in Android was a dirty word, It was usually a bad sign to an app that was converted from iPhone. But lately- Google added launch screens to the design guidelines, and maybe they changed the name, but the concept is still the same.
Read on →The internet is full of great pieces of knowledge. Starting from amazing stories and ending with some tips from the pros. But because now days every shitty twitter user that have a keyboard can open a blog the internet is also full of garbage and texts that not worth your time, and on the other hand you always feel that you missing something, So what can we do?
Read on →Although Android system has a very good built-in drag & drop mechanism, I seeing lots of libraries that just duplicate this behaviour, or users that hack they way for building drag & drop on their apps. In this blog post I will explain how to implement a simple drag & drop functionality between different views with a very small amount of code.
Read on →Until couple of months ago I’ve been a bit afraid writing custom views. I thought it’s too complicated and had a lot of overhead with handling all layouting and interactions, I felt there is not enough documentation out there, not mention the edge cases and performance. I had my default Android view component in my toolbox and thought that everything I needed can be composed from those.
Read on →I started developing for Android 3 years ago. I was never really formally taught - no ‘real’ classes, no online courses. I did what I usually doing when I’m trying to learn a new thing - figure things out through trial and error. I downloaded the SDK and started tweaking and playing with things around while reading the Android developer guide.
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