Last week, we've continued the Android Quick Tips series with how to dynamically tint Android actionbar menu items. This week, we'll expand on the topic of actionbar menu items and show you how to add padding to single menu items. Feel free to browse our previous Android Quick Tips: {{outline} …

We're continuing our Android Quick Tips series with a practical topic. In this short blog post we'll show you how to dynamically tint your action bar menu item icons. If you're interested in our previous Android Quick Tips, take a look: {{outline}} Dynamically Tinting Menu Items If you're developing an …

We've been through various Android Quick Tips. This week we'll focus on Intents. {{outline}} Internal use of startActivityForResult() Every Android developer is aware of the startActivityForResult(Intent i) to call external apps to do something specific and get the result back, like calling the camera app to take a photo. …

After looking at various Android Quick Tips, this week we'll look at a few more of our favorite productivity tips for Android Studio. {{outline}} Shortcuts, Shortcuts, Shortcuts Shortcuts are the single most important "hack" for developer productivity. Your development time is valuable, and often, when you're in the flow, your …

After posts focused on development work (Gradle and Debugging), this week we'll look at a topic more related to marketing: screen capturing. For promo or instructional videos, it's often necessary to record what's happening on the screen. In this blog post, we'll show you three options. {{outline}} Screen Capturing for …

In our last Android Quick Tips blog post, we've looked at some Gradle tips. This week, we'll give you a few suggestions to make your debugging life easier. {{outline}} Rise and Shine™ Are you sick of hitting the unlock button on your device and then swiping away the lock screen …

Since we heard that our previous Android Quick Tips added some value to a bunch of developers, we've decided to continue this series with a variety of topics. This week we'll look at the Gradle build system. {{outline}} Speeding Up Your Builds Of course, all of us would love having …

Android Studio Productivity In the first post in our Android Quick Tips series we looked at Android's TextView class and helpers. In the second post we'll look at our centerpiece of Android programming: the Android Studio IDE. {{outline}} Android Studio is based on IntelliJ, which is a fantastic foundation for …