Implementing background upload queue with Swift

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…

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Nemanja Kovacevic

Jan 12, 2016

RecyclerView “swipe to delete”. No 3rd party lib necessary.

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…

Nemanja Kovacevic

Mar 24, 2015

Yet another post on Serializable vs Parcelable

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…

Android case study: placeholder image and memory consumption

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…

Nemanja Kovacevic

May 16, 2013

Designing android apps begginers guide — introduction

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.

Nemanja Kovacevic

Apr 28, 2013

Converting an android app to a library

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…

Nemanja Kovacevic

Feb 9, 2013

Adding things to $PATH on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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…

Nemanja Kovacevic

Jan 30, 2013

Android build target — a controversy

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…

Nemanja Kovacevic

Jan 26, 2013

SVN, Android Pre Compiler and Mac OS X = PITA combination

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…

Nemanja Kovacevic

Dec 6, 2012

How to make Android Google Maps v2 work in android emulator

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…