Android: Force Hide System Keyboard While Retaining EditText’s Focus

There are cases that you want more controls on custom IME in your application, for example, like the WolframAlpha, having a switch in Settings to turn on/off your custom keyboard.

iOS: Context Menu Customization

In iOS, there’re 2 places user could input texts: TextField or WKWebView.

When users are editing, there are context menus that you might want to customize.

iOS: Keyboard Shortcuts and Predictive Texts Customization

Android: Customize the Gradle Build — Download Extra Resources Pre-Build

There are cases that your project depends on some resources provided by another team in your company or other 3rd party organizations, which are not hosted in Maven central or Google or anywhere. For…

Android: Play with WebView

A BRIEF HISTORY

Android WebView has gone through a big change over time.

Before Android 4.4, WebView is based on WebKit, and is shipped in AOSP.

Android: Author Library for Distribution

As a developer, you don’t want to restrict your codes only within your project. It would be awesome to modularize your own invention and distribute to the world so that the industry won’t need to reinvent the wheels, which you believe that you already have…

iOS: Play with WKWebView

UIWebView has been deprecated! Use WKWebView!

I’ve created a GitHub repo here demonstrating the usage of WKWebView:

Android: Rationale Behind Support Library

I recently came across a blog explaining Android support library in a very good way, thanks to Josh Hight!