I am extremely pleased to release Rialto: A new Android text styling library based upon Annotation Spans. Rialto enables you to provide consistent text formatting throughout your app by using annotations in your string resources. In this article we’ll look at how to get started using Rialto.
AnnotationSpans – Part 2
I recently read a blog post on the Android Developers blog by Florina Muntenescu from which I learned about a really interesting technique for applying spans to text. I was even more surprised to learn from Florina that the API in question has been there since API 1. As I was unaware of this incredibly…
AnnotationSpans – Part 1
I recently read a blog post on the Android Developers blog by Florina Muntenescu from which I learned about a really interesting technique for applying spans to text. I was even more surprised to learn from Florina that the API in question has been there since API 1. As I was unaware of this incredibly…
Certificate Pinning – Part 3
Recently at Mobiconf in Kraków I saw Marcos Placona give an excellent talk about making apps more secure. One of the subjects that he covered was that of certificate pinning which can really help to secure your API calls to your server. In this short series we’ll take a look at what certificate pinning is,…
Certificate Pinning – Part 2
Recently at Mobiconf in Kraków I saw Marcos Placona give an excellent talk about making apps more secure. One of the subjects that he covered was that of certificate pinning which can really help to secure your API calls to your server. In this short series we’ll take a look at what certificate pinning is,…
Certificate Pinning – Part 1
Recently at Mobiconf in Kraków I saw Marcos Placona give an excellent talk about making apps more secure. One of the subjects that he covered was that of certificate pinning which can really help to secure your API calls to your server. In this short series we’ll take a look at what certificate pinning is,…
TextClassification – Part 3
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.
TextClassification – Part 2
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.
TextClassification – Part 1
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.