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• Robolectric ShadowTaskStackBuilder

  Robolectric has no ShadowTaskStackBuilder, so tests relying on TaskStackBuilder fail. Here's a minimal custom shadow to get them passing again.

  Donn Felker – January 6, 2014

• Working Remote

  Happier & more productive employees work remotely. Working remote has proven to be more effective for a company. This is a review of the book, Remote.

  Donn Felker – November 12, 2013

• Android Bootstrap and Android Studio

  Porting Android Bootstrap to Gradle and Android Studio, plus AppCompat, a navigation drawer, and Picasso -- and why raising minSdkVersion to 15 makes sense.

  Donn Felker – November 9, 2013

• Loading Remote Images in Android with UrlImageView

  Tired of scattering Picasso calls across your Android codebase? Wrap it in a custom UrlImageView with Dagger injection. Code included.

  Donn Felker – August 15, 2013

• Android Bootstrap Updated to Include a Navigation Drawer

  Android Bootstrap gets a navigation drawer via SimonVT's Menu Drawer library, plus updated Dagger, Otto, and HTTP-Request dependencies.

  Donn Felker – July 9, 2013

• Android Studio – Tips and Tricks Part 2

  Part 4 of my Android Studio series: create layout files on the fly, generate XML drawables in seconds, and speed up day to day coding.

  Donn Felker – June 21, 2013

• Android Studio – Tips and Tricks Part 1

  Part 3 of my Android Studio tips and tricks series: quick file navigation, plus creating string and dimens.xml resources on the fly.

  Donn Felker – June 6, 2013

• Android Studio – Setting up an Emulator

  Part 2 of my Android Studio video series: where the SDK actually lives now, and how to set up and launch an emulator for development.

  Donn Felker – May 20, 2013

• Getting Started with Android Studio

  Learn the how to use Android Studio in this quick Getting Started video, produced by best Selling Android development author Donn Felker

  Donn Felker – May 16, 2013

• Hi Performance JSON Parsing in Android

  Learn how to parse large JSON files and streams (from API's) using Jackson's Streaming Parser.

  Donn Felker – April 15, 2013

• Ruby 1.9.3 [BUG] Segmentation with rspec

  A leftover binding_of_caller gem in the Gemfile caused segmentation faults running rspec under Ruby 1.9.3. Here's how I tracked it down.

  Donn Felker – March 21, 2013

• Android Fragmentation – The Business Reason

  Android Fragmentation exists, its rampant and developers and companies are paying the price in development costs. Why does it happen? Business decisions ...

  Donn Felker – January 3, 2013