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 those libs unless I absolutely have to. The lib you…

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 a need to start writing all the parcelable boilerplate in…

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 in to your Eclipse or use it as…

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. Before we take off… …, a disclaimer. I’m not a designer…

Are you trying to convert your android app to library? It’s very simple, just go, Properties->Android, thick Is Library and that’s it. At least in theory, but here are couple of advices to make it work in real life as well… Replace all switch blocks with if-else blocks. Switch can…

One of the reasons I’ve started writing this blog is that I was tired googling solutions for same issue every couple of months. The most annoying thing is when you have to make a disproportional effort to do something that should’ve been easy. There are couple of solutions online for this simple task but not all are working for me. However this one is: Add to the PATH on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and up - Ryan Hoffman In the process of setting up a new Mac, I installed node.js. After the node.js installer finished, it recommended to…architectryan.com

Here is a very good example why are android devs pissed off most of the time (you can find another in this post). Lets find an answer to this simple question: “What version of android should you build your project against?” I claim this should be set to maximum version…

As far as I’m concerned SVN is a thing of the past. In todays market of SCMs my weapon of choice is git and I’m very satisfied ever since I made that transition. That was easy enough for me, a freelance developer, but may not be so easy for a…

Couple of days ago I was in for a nasty surprise. Providing android training in a company here in Belgrade I wanted to present a demo app of location sensors and Google Maps API but when I sat to prepare it I realized that only yesterday new Google Maps API…