In this section we will attempt to produce the same application as in Part 1, but using RxJava. If you’re not familiar with RxJava, I highly recommend watching a Netflix presentation on the topic. I’ll assume you’re familiar with the basics of the library. As a reminder, we’re exploring different ways of communicating between threads… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Web 2.0
Reactive Android, Part 1
From what I’ve seen, vast majority of bugs and crashes programmers face on Android are around state and concurrency. These issues cause serious headaches not only in mobile applications, but they have a special flavor in Android. Specifically, all long running operations (network calls, file access, etc) must be done off the main (UI) thread…. Read more »
Disable scrolling in Android ListView
Let’s say you want to make a static list view, perhaps because all the items in the list fit on the screen (no matter how small). Android doesn’t offer an easy way to accomplish this with something like myListView.setEnableScrolling(false); There is a StackOverflow question that provides an easy way to do it using a custom… Read more »
WebViewChromium – still MIA
Update 10/31/2013: The WebViewChromium is now implemented in Android 4.4 KitKat! If you’ve ever used WebView in Android, you know that its a double edged sword. On the one hand being able to bring the full power of HTML and Javascript into a section of your application frees you up from vastly more complicated native… Read more »
Analyzing network requests on Android
You may have needed to see all commmunication for your app to the server. Perhaps you’ve inherited the codebase from someone else, or it relies on a library and you want to see how the server requests look. Or you’re just curious to see why your device is accessing the network, and if a questionable… Read more »