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by on_and_off 12y ago
Nice writing. It is good to see more and more apps trying to do the right thing and really port an app, and not just make an idiotic 1:1 copy of the iOS version.
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by on_and_off 12y ago
"Designing and coding layouts that work well across all these screens is hugely challenging." Says who ? Unknown screen size is something Android has embraced since day 1 and each time, writing that it is an huge issue just sh
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by on_and_off 12y ago
The author is very unresponsive (both to mails and on its own forum), progress is extremely slow, to the point that there are always many threads asking if the project is dead. In these conditions, I don't mind seeing an open source pr
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by on_and_off 12y ago
In all fairness they also explained that they don't communicate about what they will or might do. Although some core members of the Android team are indeed very outspoken on their opinion that a switch to another language would have
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by on_and_off 12y ago
If you enjoy learning a new technology and are open minded, I think it would be very beneficial to do it yourself. It is always interesting to learn another platform. The beginning will probably be rough : here is a whole platform and you
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by on_and_off 12y ago
I don't think they have been very quiet about ART. They had a whole I/O session and they recently dedicated a whole dev backstage podcast to ART and its future evolution (btw, some nice things are planned : suppression of the 65k
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by on_and_off 12y ago
I tried one of his apks : The Verge TV. It installs an app of the same name. The First Screen is the logo of the website on 2/3 of the screen and a description of the website. In a corner there is a disclaimer button, clicking on it
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by on_and_off 12y ago
Yeah. It is understandable when you see where Photos is coming from. Google+ has proven successful with photographs since it had (at least at the time) an very good picture experience and an interaction model that worked well for communitie
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by on_and_off 12y ago
It is extremely good to have this kind of project. There are not many places when you can have a look at how real apps (ie apps that are not trivial and deployed to real users) are architectured. For this kind of real project with some scal
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by on_and_off 12y ago
Google is moving more and more code to Github (at least for public facing projects). Google code is pretty much a corporate code repo from one decade ago.
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by on_and_off 12y ago
Paypal already have an Android Wear app (not my payment solution of choice, but that's a start). The platform is pretty much what I have been hoping for, for quite some time : situation triggered glance-able cards. It is not perfec
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by on_and_off 12y ago
I have an early 2011 15" mbp. I always only had a 500gb hd in it. Recently, its performances have starting becoming inadequate, so I switched its 4gb of ram for 16gb & its hard drive for a 480gb ssd. It is a night and day dif
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by on_and_off 12y ago
I agree, it was pretty much buzzword fest. Here : I think the Android framework (Java + Android APIs + Android dev tools) should evolve towards something less verbose. Let's say I want to add a new type of selector in my ListView (
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by on_and_off 12y ago
Android and iOS have won the first world, it's done. Some contenders (Microsoft, Blackberry) try to grapple some market share, but unless Google or Apple do something very stupid it seems doomed to be a very hard & slow progressi
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by on_and_off 12y ago
There is a retro-lambda library that allows to write lambda expressions. It is compiled to jdk 6 compatible bytecode though.
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by on_and_off 12y ago
what matters is what you can do, how much you understand the platform tools (it is not required of a junior developer to write renderscript kernels, but he/she at least need to know basic concepts such as view recycling or view holders
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by on_and_off 12y ago
Udacity now have Android courses in partnership with Google : https://plus.google.com/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/jmSk2az9715
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by on_and_off 12y ago
I am testing the L build on a Nexus 5. Our app has a feed full of very rich views. We already implement a lot of optimizations (not all of those that are possible though, namely flat custom views, simply because we don't have the eng
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by on_and_off 12y ago
Another advantage is that you will not need to recompile your app for 64 bits architectures or whatever new chip arrives in the future. It is already compatible. You also don't have to worry about the SOC when sending an apk, the s