Todd Way

5 months ago

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Observable cache policies with Shelf

Mobile apps often depend on network data that needs to be stored locally, restructured, and periodically refreshed. You’ll find plenty of implementation options for http calls, serialization, disk storage, encryption, etc. You’ll also find plenty of changing requirements that make you want to replace the choices you made a month ago.

Wouldn’t it be nice to minimize the dependencies your application code has on these persistence details?
Wouldn’t it be extra nice to defer complex and highly optimized implementations you may never need?

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1 year ago

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3 ways to reach Android users beyond your app

If you have an app in the Google Play store and are looking for better ways to connect with users, there are some powerful Android utilities you should know about. Users don’t need to have your app open or even installed to reap the benefits. Here are 3 tools for reaching Android users beyond your app.

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1 year ago

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Android Material Transitions

This Android project samples some Material Design-ish transitions for list items and floating action buttons. It uses the the shared element concept introduced in Android 5.0. I tried to pull it off with pure fragment transitions and ran into a few stags (see below) so my current solution uses an activity transition for each step.

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1 year ago

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Mocking backend features in an Android app

Many of the apps we build rely on backend web services. During development these systems are often still in flux. Test environments go on and offline. Web services change. Data from the servier is inconsistent or incomplete. This article outlines a few techniques to mock external network dependencies so development and user testing can keep moving.

Dev settings

Android’s Setting/Preference API is a handy way for developers and testers to configure mock features directly in your app.

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1 year ago

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Automatically boot and unlock an Android emulator

For all you DRY-conscious developers out there who want to eliminate some repetitive manual steps when testing against an Android emulator, here’s a simple bash script. It boots the emulator if it’s not already running, waits for the full boot, and then unlocks the lock screen. It’s pretty handy automated tests against an emulator with something like Calabash.

#!/bin/bash

# init variables
DEVICE_ID="@nexus5"
EMULATOR_CHECK_STATUS="adb shell getprop init.svc.bootanim"
EMULATOR_IS_BOOTED="stopped"

# see if emulator needs to be booted
OUT=$($EMULATOR_CHECK_STATUS)
if [[ ${OUT:0:7} == $EMULATOR_IS_BOOTED ]]
then # do nothing if already booted
    echo "Emulator already booted."
else # Start the emulator in the background
    emulator $DEVICE_ID & # for Android SDK emulator
    # /Applications/Genymotion.app/Contents/MacOS/player --vm-name "$DEVICE_ID" & # for genymotion emulator

    # wait for full emulator boot
    OUT=$($EMULATOR_CHECK_STATUS)
    while [[ ${OUT:0:7}  != $EMULATOR_IS_BOOTED ]]; do
            OUT=$($EMULATOR_CHECK_STATUS)
            echo "Waiting for emulator to fully boot..."
            sleep 3
    done

    echo "Emulator booted!"

    adb shell input keyevent 82 # unlock lock screen
fi

2 years ago

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Browse some of the best Android library demos with DevAppsDirect

DevAppsDirect is a great tool for Android designers and developers. Install it on any Android device and get quick access to demo UI patterns, custom views, widgets, game engines, and other libraries.

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3 years ago

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Easy local stack management with Vagrant

I’m using Vagrant to hand-off complete copies of my local development environment to other members of my team. This is a great way to lower setup time, isolate dependencies and eliminate inconsistencies. Frontend developers are able to work against a full local environment without wasting time on backend configuration. The following describes how Vagrant can make this possible without any additional provisioning tools. Those tools are powerful and offer even more efficiencies, but we’re leaving them out in the interest of simplicity.

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3 years ago

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A clean, lightweight, pure JS alternative for anchoring file fields to Drupal WYSIWYGs

jquery.modalize.js is a lightweight, pure-javascript approach to automatically turn part of any web page into a modal overlay.

I originally wrote it as a simple alternative for associating file upload fields to WYSIWYGs in Drupal, but can be used to modalize any chunk of HTML and significantly clean up overloaded pages (Drupal or non-Drupal).

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3 years ago

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