I have been working as a full-time remote software developer for many years, and have created an effective home office setup. I am sharing this info, in hopes it will help inspire other’s to create their own perfect home office. It has taken me years to perfect my setup, and…

Google has rebranded their support libraries to be named Jetpack (aka AndroidX). Developers will need to make changes to account for this. This article will explain what this means, and how to get started converting your project to use the new components. What is Jetpack? Android Jetpack is a set of libraries, tools…

Android Studio is “Borked” — my checklist for fixing build issues I recently encountered an issue, where despite my project being configured correctly (and building on my colleagues machine), I couldn’t get it working in my local environment. I tried multiple clean builds, cloning a fresh repo, rebooting my machine…

After Google IO, the Android GDE team got together to gather our thoughts about the most significant announcements from the conference. This is a summary of our thoughts about the new ConstraintLayout. At IO 2016, one of the more exciting announcements (especially for UI focused developers) was a new layout…