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…
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Nougat – GCM Network Manager
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 first article we’re…
Bluetooth LE – Part 3
Previously in this series we’ve looked at some of the background of Bluetooth LE and set up a simple Activity / Service framework. In this article we’ll get in to the nitty gritty of Bluetooth LE and look at device discovery.
Bluetooth LE – Part 2
In the previous article we covered a bit of the background of Bluetooth LE and what we’re going to develop in this series, but there was no actual code. We’ll rectify that in this article and define the Service / Activity architecture that were going to use to ensure that we’re going to keep our…
TextClock Version 2 – Part 2
In the previous article in this series we began the update of the TextClock app widget, lock screen widget, and daydream by selectively, according to OS version, updating the colours to match the new KitKat theme. In this article we’ll look at adding some animations.
Text Clock – Part 8
Following on from last week’s minor detour, we’ll resume this series by adding another new feature that was introduced in Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean): Daydreams. A PC-style screensaver is not practical on a mobile device much of the time because on a mobile device you want to power down the display when the device is…
Text Clock – Part 4
In the previous article we got the time displaying on our Text Clock app widget, but the time did not update. In this article we’ll use AlarmManager to get the widget updating periodically.
Text Clock – Part 3
In the previous article we got an app widget background displaying on the home screen, but it does not actually display any real data, which is somewhat useless! In this article we’ll look at displaying the time on our app widget.
Background Tasks – Part 6
In the previous article we discussed the Android Service architecture and looked at how to properly implement your Service to both behave well and avoid being killed by the OS or a TaskKiller. In this concluding article in this series well look at IntentService and look at ways that we can trigger UI updates from…
Background Tasks – Part 5
Previously in this series we have looked at various ways of moving slow, intensive, or blocking tasks off of the UI thread in order to keep our app responsive. The final mechanism that we’ll look at is Android services.