Must Watch Android: Technically Speaking's Droidcon Hangout

Last week on June 10th, Chiu-Ki Chan hosted the Technically Speaking Droidcon hangout and spoke with the organizers of Droidcon NYC (Kevin Galligan), Droidcon Stockholm (Erik Hellman), and Droidcon London (Natasha Borsos and Shivam Gadhia). The topic was speaking at Droidcon (which you probably guessed already).

If you want to speak, you should watch/listen to this hangout, even if you are not thinking specifically about Droidcon.

Also for those out there with super short attention spans or just want to scan, I took notes on the different segments of the conversation.

Things You May Not Know: Tools Attributes

You may have seen an extra namespace, xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com.tools", in layout files generated by Android Studio. Adding this namespace to your layout provides you access to attributes, the Tools Attributes, that add metadata to resource files, that facilitate manipulating, rendering, and testing layouts in Design view, and (while I do not condone excess of this kind of behavior) that suppress certain Lint warnings (but only if you have a good reason for ignoring them, she nags).

Meet up, Rock Out: Android Atelier, First Meeting

Tuesday, June 10, 2015 was the first meeting of Android Atelier, an Android study group coming together to exercise our Android muscles by building open source applications.

AndroidHuyen Tue DaoJune 11, 2015Inspiring Appsandroid, meetup, android atelier, hackathon

Things You May Not Know: onResumeFragments

The long and short of it: if you are using any subclass of FragmentActivity (like the new AppCompatActivity) and you are thinking of doing any kind of fragment transaction in onResume, do it in onResumeFragments.

If you feel like some detail and some caveats, read on. If not, no worries. Have a good one and see you next post.

Development, AndroidHuyen Tue DaoJune 6, 2015Randomly Typingandroid, fragments, support

Powered by Squarespace