Jun 2, 2019

Kyoto Tour — 京都之旅

终于在2月25日迎来了期待已久的京都旅行.

首先介绍一下大概的路线图：

Hands-On With macOS Mojave

WWDC 2018 offcially takes place June 4th. Just like the reports from media, no new hardware but focus on the updates of software, WWDC brings iOS12, macOS 10.14 Mojave, watchOS 5 and tvOS 12 up. Of course, they are all in status of Developer Preview, only for developer adapting the new features and early adoption, not suggested update in production environment. If you plan to update, you can find the way to do it at the end of this post. OK, let’s begin.

New Functions & New Features

Dark Mode

Let’s talk about the update experience first. The whole process of updating is pretty easy, taking about…

Charles — An elegant way to select local multi-media files for Android

We often meet the need to choose images, videos or other files from local storage during android development. One solution is call the DocumentsUI or other file manager. But as you know, Android is open sourced, which means that the UI of each system is much varied. But what if we need a unified UI? Then it comes to the second solution: Create our own file selector.

Let’s take a look to Charles:

🎉 WhatsNew automatically displays a short description of the new features when users update your app.

WhatsNew automatically displays a short description of the new features when users update your app. Inspired by WhatsNew.

Download

Gradle

Add the JitPack repository to your root build.gradle file:

repositories {
    maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
}

Add the code to your module’s build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    implementation 'io.github.tonnyl:whatsnew:x.y.z'
}

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.github.tonnyl</groupId>
  <artifactId>whatsnew</artifactId>
  <version>x.y.z</version>
  <type>pom</type>
</dependency>

Usage

Basic

Kotlin:

WhatsNew.newInstance( WhatsNewItem("Nice Icons", "Completely customize colors, texts and icons.", R.drawable.ic_heart), WhatsNewItem("Such Easy", "Setting this up only takes 2 lines of code, impressive you say?", R.drawable.ic_thumb_up), WhatsNewItem("Very Sleep", "It helps you get more sleep by writing less code.", R.drawable.ic_satisfied_face), WhatsNewItem("Text Only", "No icons? Just go with…

Mango — An Android app for dribbble.com

Mango is an Android application for Dribbble. Inspired by Resplash, Plaid and Protein.

Features

Kotlin and RxKotlin: Yes, fully written in Kotlin.
MVP architecture: Whole project is built on MVP architecture.
Material Design: Trying my best.
Deep link: Yes. Using DeepLinkDispatch from Airbnb.
App shortcuts: Supporting devices running Android 7.1+.
Usage of several awesome libraries: Anko common for simplified intents, Flexbox layout for smart and elegant layout, Glide for image loading, Gson for serialization&deserialization, Retrofit for HTTP requests, Room for data persistence.

Screenshots

Make android application barcode and QR code aware

In this tutorial, we will carry out the barcode and QR code scanning within our app using ZXing library.

Why ZXing

Here are the several ways to carry out this function below:

Using Google Play Service and the Mobile Vision APIs.
Using barcodescanner library.
Using ZXing library.

Let’s analyze the positive and negative points of the 3 ways above.

The first one, using Google Play Service and the Mobile Vision APIs is not suitable, because not every user has installed the Google Play Service on his devices especially in China.
The second one, using barcodescanner library is not suitable either. Though the…

Awesome APIs

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