How to customize the text appearance of a selected section in a Navigation Drawer

The purpose of this post is to show you how you can customize the text style of a selected item in an Android NavigationDrawer. These instructions assume that you already implemented a…

How to setup a Jenkins slave running Debian Wheezy for Android projects part 1

At Samsao, we use Jenkins for our continuous integration system. One nice feature of Jenkins is the ability to dispatch jobs to other systems called slaves. To do so, you first need to setup the…

Why does Android silently kill my app when minimized?

I recently had a weird bug with an Android application we are developing. When minimized (or paused, or put in background), the application would crash. Actually, it wouldn’t crash, it would just stop.

8 tips for learning how to code on your own

My name is Kenza, and I am an iOS Developer who graduated from a Psychology…

After I went React (Native), I couldn’t go back — Part 1

A simple way you can organize your Android project so it can reach the next level

How to make an Android library

So you are a an Android developer who has just created this cool feature in your app and found out you want to make it available for other developers. No? So you’re an Android developer who has had an idea of a concept to make Android development easier and you want to share…

After I went React (Native), I couldn’t go back — Part 2