In September 2019 Google released Android Studio 3.6 Canary 11 to the Canary channel. This had an interesting new addition: View Binding. In this short series we’ll take a look at how it works, and what impact it may have on performance.
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View Binding: Internals
In September 2019 Google released Android Studio 3.6 Canary 11 to the Canary channel. This had an interesting new addition: View Binding. In this short series we’ll take a look at how it works, and what impact it may have on performance.
AnimatedIcons: Loading V2
There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in…
Mainframer / Mirakle
Build speeds are an important issue when it comes to Android development. While things are certainly improving thanks to the work that the Android Tools team at Google are doing doing to the Android toolchain, and other changes such as incremental compilation in the Kotlin toolchain, there are still occasions where builds are slow. Any…
Mandelbrot: Progressive Rendering
In this series we’re going to build an app to view the Mandelbrot set. While this is not necessarily something that is likely to be of direct use to the majority of app developers (except for those that have a desire to develop their own Mandelbrot set viewing apps), there are some techniques that we’ll…
Mandelbrot: Pan
In this series we’re going to build an app to view the Mandelbrot set. While this is not necessarily something that is likely to be of direct use to the majority of app developers (except for those that have a desire to develop their own Mandelbrot set viewing apps), there are some techniques that we’ll…
Mandelbrot: Zoom
In this series we’re going to build an app to view the Mandelbrot set. While this is not necessarily something that is likely to be of direct use to the majority of app developers (except for those that have a desire to develop their own Mandelbrot set viewing apps), there are some techniques that we’ll…
Mandelbrot: Basic Viewer
In this series we’re going to build an app to view the Mandelbrot set. While this is not necessarily something that is likely to be of direct use to the majority of app developers (except for those that have a desire to develop their own Mandelbrot set viewing apps), there are some techniques that we’ll…
Mandelbrot: Rendering
In this series we’re going to build an app to view the Mandelbrot set. While this is not necessarily something that is likely to be of direct use to the majority of app developers (except for those that have a desire to develop their own Mandelbrot set viewing apps), there are some techniques that we’ll…
Mandelbrot: Basic Theory
In this series we’re going to build an app to view the Mandelbrot set. While this is not necessarily something that is likely to be of direct use to the majority of app developers (except for those that have a desire to develop their own Mandelbrot set viewing apps), there are some techniques that we’ll…