If you’ve been following this series, you already read about dependency injection basics on part 1 and Dagger fundamentals on part 2. This last part about Dagger and dependency injection Android is focused on scoped object graphs. What’s the use of scoped graphs in Dagger? When we instantiate Dagger singletons in application object graph, they …
If you read first post about dependency injection, you will probably be looking for some real code. There are some beautiful examples about coffee makers at Dagger page, and an awesome model project by Jake Wharton for more experienced users. But we need something easier and coffee is not our main business model, so this …
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On this new series I will explain what dependency injection is, what its main purpose is and how to use it on an Android project by using Dagger, the best know implementation designed with Android in mind. It will be a follow-up from my previous post about MVP for Android, because I know some of …
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Last support library update has included an interesting and unexpected layout: SwipeRefresLayout. It is a standard way to implement the common Pull to Refresh pattern in Android. Using this new layout is really easy, but here it is a simple guide to make it work in a few seconds. What do you need to know? …
TextViews are one of the basis of Android UI framework. Buttons, EditTexts, RadioButtons are, indeed, TextViews. And they are also one of the most powerful tools we have to create our layouts. Knowing them in deep can help us save time, views and simplify our layouts, making our UI faster. In this series, I will …
First part was about how to integrate Google Analytics in your Android App. I will now explain how to get the most out of it by registrating visits from any view and any other events that may happen. How to register a view Initial configuration only allows to capture visits when they come from an …
Lead your Android App to success with Google Analytics (part 2) Read More »
Analytics lets you know how the user interacts with your application and that may help you take some decisions, such as: Knowing which parts of your application are used the most and focus on them. Knowing which parts are less used and redesign or eliminate them. Discover where there are navigation issues, access to information, …
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After learning some basic rules to work with ActionBarCompat, you will probably need to migrate some apps from ActionBarSherlock to ActionBarCompat, because it provides better integration with some other functionalities such as Navigation Drawer, and there are some issues that you must know to make it easy. I’ll be replacing Bandhook Action Bar while writing …
ActionBarCompat (Part 3): Migrating from ActionBarSherlock Read More »
In the first part of this tutorial series I talked about how to use ActionBarCompat in our projects. Once you have set the theme, extended ActionBarActivity and added some menu items, it’s time to add an Action View to your bar. < Part 1: How to use ActionBarCompat Adding an Action View to ActionBarCompat Action …
Google has released a new version of its Support Library and it finally includes ActionBarCompat. We don’t know if ActionBarSherlock days of glory are over, but it’s true that the Android team has been working on ActionBarCompat so hard that it deserves at least one chance.