Implementing video playback in a scrolled list (ListView & RecyclerView)

In this article I will describe how to implement video playback in the list. The same that works in popular applications like Facebook, Instagram or Magisto:

Facebook:

Server polling and retrying failed operations. With Retrofit and RxJava.

A very common case in developing rest application is server polling and retry. When server is doing some job and we need to ask (with some delay) if it’s finished, also when we got an error, sometimes we…

Simple way to test asynchronous actions in Android: Service, AsyncTask, Thread, RxJava etc.

Sometimes testing asynchronous actions might be very difficult but in most common cases during Android development it might be done with a very simple technique.

Implementing ImageView transition between activities for pre-Lollipop devices.

In Android 5.0 Google introduced very fancy stuff called “Shared elements transition”. Using it we can do a very cool animation that makes it look like our UI elements are moving from one…

Android Wear. Shared storage for smartwatch and the phone

Actually there is no “storage” for smartwatch and the phone. But there are some Wear API’s which can be used for this purpose.

How to set up a Free CI for Android project based on Bitbucket Cloud Pipelines