MediaBrowserServiceCompat and the modern media playback app

Media apps, more so than most, benefit strongly from working with the Android system and other apps. Some things, like handling interruptions with audio focus, have been a constant since nearly the beginning of Android and are…

Theming with AppCompat

Gray is boring, get your theme on with #appcompat

Making loading data on Android lifecycle aware

Making loading data lifecycle aware

StrictMode for Runtime Analysis on Android

#StrictMode: It’s like a runtime lint check

Layouts, Attributes, and you

Are #layouts complex? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe go learn it anyways.

Intercepting everything with CoordinatorLayout Behaviors

What can a #Behavior do? More like what can’t…

Detecting camera features with Camera2

My phone’s camera has a personality of it’s own. It has a flash, it faces backwards, it can…

Who lives and who dies? Process priorities on Android

Ensuring your #processes are in the correct…

Sharing Content between Android Apps

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts when you include…

SharedPreferences is your answer to simple storage

Most apps have some sort of user state that they’d like to keep track of. But many apps don’t store a lot of information. So if you don’t need to worry about internal/external storage, and you don’t want to put yourself through the file…