Gradle Build – Part 1

At Google I/O 2013 Google announced some new developer tools including the new Android Studio IDE, and a new build system based around Gradle. In this series we’ll have a look at the Gradle build system, and look at how to convert existing projects to use the new build system.

Cloud Save – Part 1

In a previous series on Styling Android we looked at persisting data using the Data Backup APIs. However the Google documentation suggests that this technique is unsuitable for persisting app state across multiple devices, but more for persisting app state when a user replaces a device. At Google I/O 2013 a new API was introduced,…