Udacity Android Developer Nanodegree: Week 2
This is a series of posts about my experience leveling up my Android development skills with Udacity's Nanodegree program. The entire series can be found under the udacity tag here. … »
Udacity Android Developer Nanodegree: Week 1
Some exciting stuff has happened in the past week: I was offered a "scholarship" to participate in Udacity's Android Developer Nanodegree along with 999 other developers across India! … »
Delightful details: Lift-on-touch animation for CardView
Ever since Google Now introduced the playful cards UI on Android, cards have become a core UI component of the platform. With Material Design, cards were officially incorporated into Android's … »
What you need to know about Java 8 method references
TL;DR: Today I grappled with a memory leak caused by the fact that, in Java 8, obj::method != obj::method (where obj::method is a Java 8 method reference) … »
Android Activity Lifecycle: The Definitive Reference
If you're an Android developer, I'm sure you have the activity lifecycle burned into your memory by now: Now, Android's reference documentation and training guides are excellent in general, but … »
2014: year in review
Inspired by my friend Prakhar's 2014 review blog post, I decided I'd write one as well. Hopefully it'll end up being useful for me over time. Open-source I had a … »
Android Development Resources
Developing great Android apps is hard, as anyone who has ever tried to make one can attest. So it helps to turn up fully-equipped for battle. To that end, I've … »
Common C++ Gotchas
Hopping between my open-source Android projects and Photoshop Elements at Adobe involves a lot of mental context-switching. A majority of that transition is necessitated by the fact that Java and … »
Why is hardware acceleration not working on my View?
Cross-posted from a self-answered question on StackOverflow. Recently I was intrigued about how Facebook Messenger implements chat heads on Android. Turned out a lot of people were wondering the same … »
Nuggets from my .emacs: Part I
Nuggets from my .emacs is a series wherein I will occasionally put up small but nevertheless quite useful functions in Emacs Lisp that help enhance daily productivity. This post here … »