If you have been following the development of Android in the last few months, you noticed that Google pushes to separate the monolithic Android system into a lot of smaller components. While this is great for the end users and security reasons, it raises a few question marks for us …

Most Android developers use the preview functionality of their IDE to see a live version of their XML layouts. Complex designs can be hard to grasp and to adjust. With the preview, you generally are able to get an overview of the layout simulated on a real device within seconds, …

A few weeks ago, we published a blog post on how to save and restore the scroll position of an android ListView. One of our principles is to keep everything short and reduced to a minimum. Thus, our code snippets in that blog post were very short. A negative side …

Last week, when working on the new release of the eat foody Android app, I run into a significant issue. For some reason, my requests to our staging API were incomplete or somehow broken after updating to the newest version of our request library. After some rather clueless digging I …

If you are developing an Android app, you probably ran into Android ListViews. ListViews are a very capable, but also sometimes a challenging component. As an active Android user I see a common problem in many Android apps: they lose the scroll progress I made on a ListView after returning …

Update: We added the section Preview to visually demonstrate the capabilities. Recently, we have demonstrated how to integrate the RenderScript support library in Gradle-based projects. In this post, we will showcase the usefulness of having RenderScript available. A common design effect is to blur images for an exceptionally beautiful design. …

In comparison to the other mobile platforms, Android's Java is slow to run computationally intensive tasks. RenderScript offers a framework to efficiently compute algorithms by utilizing all processors. RenderScript is fairly new to Android and most of the APIs are only available for Android 4.3 (Jellybean) or newer. Fortunately, …

In the last year I slowly progressed from being a college student to a full-time freelancer. While it is awesome to utilize my hard work at the university of the last years, my slacking self-control of my productivity started to show up. I could handle difficult tasks and get everything …