The Android P developer preview contains a new ImageDecoder which is quite interesting and can do some useful things. At present it only appears within the Framework so we can only use it on devices running P or later, and I understand that if consists of a chunk of native code and so is unlikely…
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ImageDecoder – Basics
The Android P developer preview contains a new ImageDecoder which is quite interesting and can do some useful things. At present it only appears within the Framework so we can only use it on devices running P or later, and I understand that if consists of a chunk of native code and so is unlikely…
Colour Wheel – Part 3
In Android Weekly issue # 297 there was a link to a library named ColorPickerPreference which I found interesting. One aspect of it was a colour picker which included a colour wheel but I was mildly disappointed to see that it did not include a mechanism of adjusting the brightness value, and was implemented using…
Colour Wheel – Part 2
In Android Weekly issue # 297 there was a link to a library named ColorPickerPreference which I found interesting. One aspect of it was a colour picker which included a colour wheel but I was mildly disappointed to see that it did not include a mechanism of adjusting the brightness value, and was implemented using…
Colour Wheel – Part 1
In Android Weekly issue # 297 there was a link to a library named ColorPickerPreference which I found interesting. One aspect of it was a colour picker which included a colour wheel but I was mildly disappointed to see that it did not include a mechanism of adjusting the brightness value, and was implemented using…
Kotlin: Mutability
Kotlin is a very rich language with much subtlety tucked away. In this occasional series (meaning that there will be occasional, standalone posts covering distinct areas) we’ll explore some of these subtleties. In this post we’ll take a look at mutability.
Prefekt – Api Design
On Friday 23rd February 2018 I released Prefekt – an Android SharedPreference library for Kotlin. The API is extremely clean and easy to consume, and you don’t need to worry about performance because that is all managed by the library itself. In this post we’ll look at the API design of Prefekt and see how…
Prefekt – Internals
On Friday 23rd February 2018 I released Prefekt – an Android SharedPreference library for Kotlin. The API is extremely clean and easy to consume, and you don’t need to worry about performance because that is all managed by the library itself. In this post we’ll look at some of the Prefekt internals.
Prefekt – Introduction
I am delighted to announce Prefekt – an Android SharedPreference library for Kotlin. The API is extremely clean and easy to consume, and you don’t need to worry about performance because that is all managed by the library itself. In this post we’ll look at how to use Prefekt.
RecyclerView Animations – Changing Items
RecyclerView is a really useful way of displaying content in list form, particularly when the content is dynamic and / or there are large numbers of items. One thing that can be really useful is that we get some really nice animations for free provided we implement our Adapter correctly. For those that have converted…