I’m working on an app that lets users select a bunch of photos, upload and share them with other users. Sounds simple enough: user selects photos, app uploads photos, user shares the album. More realistically though: user selects photos, app…

Checkout the code at the github repo.

Big shout-out to the guys creating libs for all the stuff Google promotes but doesn’t give us code for just yet, but the fact of the matter is I prefer not to use…

All my android developing life I’ve used java serialization as a data transfer mechanism between activities. I was vaguely aware of Parcelable and it proclaimed benefits but never really saw any performance issues related to this and thus never had…

I’m trying to optimize and lower memory footprint of an android app, and increase performance by doing that. If you want to see what’s been using up your memory you can use Eclipse MAT — Memory Analyzer Tool. You can plug it…

More often than not, designer I’m working on an any given project had no previous experience with android. That is way I want to write a series of articles as a beginners guide for designers entering the android realm for the first time.