In API 26 (Oreo) a new TextClassification system was introduced. This has been further refined in API 28 (Pie). In this short series we’ll take a look at what this is, how to use it, and how we can add custom behaviours to it.
Dude, where’s my Button?
I recently encountered a rather strange problem when tidying up an existing layout whereby a button started behaving oddly once I had cleaned up the layout. Once I understood what was happening it was pretty easy to get it fixed up, but the initial behaviour was somewhat baffling at first.
ML for Android Developers – Part 3
Machine Learning is very much in vogue at the moment and there are many Android folks producing some excellent guides to creating and training models. However, I do not feel that in the vast majority of cases Android Developers will be required to train their own models. But that does not mean that using a…
ML for Android Developers – Part 2
Machine Learning is very much in vogue at the moment and there are many Android folks producing some excellent guides to creating and training models. However, I do not feel that in the vast majority of cases Android Developers will be required to train their own models. But that does not mean that using a…
ML for Android Developers – Part 1
Machine Learning is very much in vogue at the moment and there are many Android folks producing some excellent guides to creating and training models. However, I do not feel that in the vast majority of cases Android Developers will be required to train their own models. But that does not mean that using a…
Adventures in Navigation Land – Part 2
In the recent series on Maintainable Architecture, the final task that we covered was separating out the Navigation logic by means of the Jetpack Navigation architecture component. Those that read the article will be aware that not only did it help to solve the issues that we were looking address, but it is actually a…
Adventures in Navigation Land – Part 1
In the recent series on Maintainable Architecture, the final task that we covered was separating out the Navigation logic by means of the Jetpack Navigation architecture component. Those that read the article will be aware that not only did it help to solve the issues that we were looking address, but it is actually a…
MotionLayout – Collapsing Toolbar – Part 2
At Google IO 2018 ConstraintLayout 2.0 was announced and the biggest new addition was MotionLayout which gives us an amazing new tool for layout animations. Nicolas Roard has already published an excellent introduction to MotionLayout and I would highly recommend giving that a read to understand the basics and components of MotionLayout. In this short…
MotionLayout – Collapsing Toolbar – Part 1
At Google IO 2018 ConstraintLayout 2.0 was announced and the biggest new addition was MotionLayout which gives us an amazing new tool for layout animations. Nicolas Roard has already published an excellent introduction to MotionLayout and I would highly recommend giving that a read to understand the basics and components of MotionLayout. In this short…
Maintainable Architecture – Navigation
Creating a maintainable, flexible codebase is not easy but is an essential part of software engineering. In this series we’ll take a look at a simple, functional weather app and look at some of the issues in its design. We shall then refactor and re-design it to create a codebase which will be easier to…