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Playing with Coordinator Layout
Lately I needed to build some kind of overlay screen that looks like the one that shows when you open the phone when you don’t have a lock screen. This is a simple overlay screen that should be dismissable when the user swipe it out from the lower part of the screen, something like this: […]
10 good rules for bad App, Part 3- Product
Welcome to the third (and last) part of the tutorial of how building a bad app. After we’ve building a bad app in the first part, and remarkably ruin its look and feel in the second part, we’re now going to go over on 10 steps to easily how to kill your product: #1: Add as […]
10 good rules for bad App, Part 2- UX\UI
Welcome to my second part of the tutorial of how building a bad app. After we’ve building a bad app in the first part, it’s the time to call our designer to fuck it a bit more: #1: Ignore material design guidelines Google, one of the greatest companies in the world, put lots of efforts creating material […]
10 good rules for bad App, Part 1- Technical
We were all been there, you got a great idea for an app, you gather some feedback and even managed to build a team and you going full power to conquer the app store. So a second before starting working on your genius egg timer app, it is worth taking a moment and think about how you’re going to […]
Animated Vector Drawable
In API 21 the Android team released bunch of very cool things for material design, most of the things focus around the design specs like colors or transition animation, other were for the new widgets like FAB, card view or recycle view, but within all those things there were also two things that barely discussed- VectorDrawable and AnimatedVectorDrawable. Edit: looks like those […]
My first open source lib
As part of my last Friday project I created a new Android app (releasing it soon!). In this project I decided to focus on 2 new things I want to learn: How to write Android apps with Kotlin Create an awesome UI and animations The first one was pretty straight forward, because I am a technical guy- learning […]
Andriod dev toolbox part 2
The second part of the Android dev toolbox lecture, This time we’ll focus on collection of tools and resources that help you build better apps in less time. Slides are also available here Andriod dev toolbox part 2 from Shem Magnezi
Kotlin- a better Java for Android?
A couple of weeks ago, when going over some Android DevSummit videos, I encountered in some question about alternative language for Android during one of the fireside chats session with the Android team. It was really interesting that there was another way to develop an Android apps but unfortunately I didn’t fully catch the name of the language […]
Android Studio for Experts- Cheat Sheet
So last week there was the great Android Dev Summit, that in my opinion was one the greatest summit by Google, because unlike Goolge I/O or others Google big events- these event was very technical and was especially for devs, so if you didn’t watched the videos already I very recommend to go over it and pick […]
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