Tag: Android
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PWA vs. React Native
Posted on May 9, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Kirupa wrote this short article in which he describes decision process when one needs to decide between 2 technologies. Two of the hottest technologies for building cross-platform apps these days are Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and React Native.
Tags app-development android
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Launching my first Flutter app
Posted on October 16, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Dawid Kunicki article about working with Flutter and getting out first app written in it. Taken from Android developer perspective. Flutter is a new technology that is clearly gaining more and more popularity among mobile developers.
Tags app-development android
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Compiler hinting with Kotlin contracts
Posted on September 14, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length short
Jarno Walgemoed short introduction on some new interesting features in Kotlin 1.3. Kotlin's built-in null-safety makes it easy for us to write code that's less error-prone and less susceptible to the unwanted and unexpected NullpointerException at runtime. Kotlin is introducing Contracts in the upcoming 1.3 release in which we can use contracts to tell the compiler how a function behaves and what results are implied, so we can benefit from improved smart-casts.
Tags java android app-development kotlin
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Understanding Android Gradle build
Posted on August 18, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Łukasz Wasylkowski article about Android Gradle builds. In his post he'll write, step by step, Gradle configuration files for a single Android project in order to take some of the magic away.
Tags android java app-development cicd
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Best practices for unit testing in Kotlin
Posted on June 9, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Philipp Hauer post about how unit testing in Kotlin is fun and tricky at the same time. We can benefit a lot from Kotlin's powerful language features to write readable and concise unit tests.
Tags programming app-development android
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Performance improvements for search on the yelp Android app p1
Posted on May 8, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this article Tyler Argo wrote how Yelp has been working hard to improve the performance of their search results on mobile devices (iOS and Android). We noticed that most users "grunted or made noises when waiting for search to load".
Tags app-development javascript android
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Best practices in Android development
Posted on May 2, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Idorenyin Obong from Auth0 wrote this piece about practices in Android development. Best practices are simply professional standards that are acceptable in a field. Here, we will look at such practices as it relates to Android development.
Tags android app-development kotlin
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TensorFlow on Mobile: TensorFlow Lite introduction
Posted on April 17, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Sagar Sharma short introduction to TensorFlow on mobile. TensorFlow Lite is a lightweight and a next step from TensorFlow Mobile. You can do almost all the things that you do on TensorFlow mobile but much faster.
Tags android big-data app-development
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Understanding Angular pipes
Posted on December 31, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
James Griffiths post on Angular pipes. Angular, the underlying front-end development framework used by Ionic, provides developers with a feature known as pipes which allows data values to be transformed within an application's template view prior to being displayed.
Tags app-development android ios
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Creating a Fingerprint Lockscreen with TouchID in Ionic
Posted on October 1, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Josh Morony blog post on topic of creating Ionic app which will use TouchID feature to verify a user.
Tags app-development android ios
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Lessons from an Experienced Dev's First Solo App
Posted on August 2, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Tips for launching a side project from KJ Jones. As many of us take more lead roles at their workplace, our time writing code will decrease. The main goal was to go through the entire development and deployment process.
Tags app-development android ios
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Functional Programming for Android Developers
Posted on June 10, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Anup Cowkur post on topic: why not use some of the concepts and techniques from the functional world in Android programming.
Tags functional-programming kotlin android app-development