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I recently upgraded my Android toolchain to the official Android Studio 1.0. I’ve set up a new project, and as with any Android app, included Robolectric to allow for easy unit testing. I was able to configure Gradle …
In Parts 1 and 2 of this series we examined different methods of creating a reactive application on Android, where events (either UI events originating from the application user, or background events generated by the system) trigger certain …
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 …
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, …
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 …
