A fairly common operation in Android apps is the need to download content to the device. While it is easy enough to construct a network call to download the required content, there is also a built in way which can be particularly useful if the content being downloaded should also be shared with other apps,…
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DownloadManager – Part 2
A fairly common operation in Android apps is the need to download content to the device. While it is easy enough to construct a network call to download the required content, there is also a built in way which can be particularly useful if the content being downloaded should also be shared with other apps,…
DownloadManager – Part 1
A fairly common operation in Android apps is the need to download content to the device. While it is easy enough to construct a network call to download the required content, there is also a built in way which can be particularly useful if the content being downloaded should also be shared with other apps,…
Nougat – Direct Boot
Nougat has now been released in to the wild and there are a number of new features which developers should be considering. In this loosely-related series of articles we’re going to be looking at various aspects of these new features to see how we can best make use of them. In this article we’re going…
Match Timer – Part 3
Previously in this series we’ve looked at the software design decisions and the main timer engine for our Android Wear app to time do football (soccer to our American cousins) matches. In this article we’ll look at how we can wake up periodically in order to update the user.