Donn Felker

In this video I cover my experience in having two apps featured in the top 100 free category on Google Play for the last 3 years.

A contractor refused to let me sign and pay remotely, forcing an office visit -- a textbook failure of the Referral step in Dave McClure's AARRR metrics.

Bootstrap faster by simply doing less.

This is a story of the best parent I ever knew.

I just launched AndroidJobs.IO, a site that lists only the best Android Jobs from top notch companies such as Square, Etsy, Pandora and many more.

If I told you that a company has recently made over 3 million dollars monetizing failure, would you believe me?

Get your time back.

I devised a process on how to hire outsourced developers using a simple four step process - Job Posting, Prelim Review, Programming Challenge and Final ...

I figured out how to hire programmers while saving time/money using a four step process - HR/Tech Screening, Programming Challenge and culture fit eval.

Robolectric has no ShadowTaskStackBuilder, so tests relying on TaskStackBuilder fail.

Happier & more productive employees work remotely.

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

Tired of scattering Picasso calls across your Android codebase?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

A leftover binding_of_caller gem in the Gemfile caused segmentation faults running rspec under Ruby 1.9.3.

Android Fragmentation exists, its rampant and developers and companies are paying the price in development costs.

A reflection on the Sandy Hook shooting after realizing my family once shopped at the same Walmart the victims' parents likely also shopped at.

The most comprehensive Android Template Project available - Android Bootstrap.

I was hooked on coffee for years.

A positive and negative report of the effects of working at my IKEA Stand Up Desk after two weeks.

Learn how to speed up development by using the Android Native Emulator and how to start the emulator via a bash_profile alias.

Upgrading to Node 0.8 and Express 3 broke res.json(data, status), the param order flipped to res.json(status, data).

Stop hunting for a technical co-founder before you've proven your idea works.

A startup is like an ATV hydroplaning over water: lose velocity and you sink.

A new Phoenix-area conference just launched, the Phoenix Mobile Festival, and I'm speaking on working with Android Fragments this Saturday.

Roboguice will inject views under test when using Robolectric, but if the xmlns is anything other than android then the view will be null.

After years of leaky bottles, the CamelBak Podium Chill and Nalgene Tritan Grip-N-Gulp for kids finally solved my desk-hydration problem.

Step-by-step fix for pairing a Brother HL-2170W wireless printer with an Apple Airport Extreme when the official setup instructions don't work.

Stop over-engineering your MVP.

How I sank $140K over 7 years running an indie record label, why it failed, and the hard lessons on accounting, contracts, and cutting losses early.

How to build an iOS-style red notification bubble in Android using an XML drawable and FrameLayout, with no 9-patch images required.

Skip the validation dialog box.

Slides from my 'What's New in Android Tablet Development' session at AnDevCon, covering the latest tablet APIs, tools, and SDK changes.

For those of you who attended todays workshop at AnDevCon II, here is the PDF of the presentation that we covered today.

Logistics for my Hands-On Android Tablet Programming class at AnDevCon III: prerequisites, what to install, and what to bring to keep up.

I'm teaching a free, hands-on Android Tablet Programming class October 25th at Gangplank in Arizona -- seats are limited, register only if you're sure.

Android devices only ship with a subset of locales installed, so Currency and DateFormat can render wrong or garbled for locales you need.

Use layout_weight on a middle TextView to spring-load a bullet separator that stays centered between two dynamic-length text views in Android.

How to give Android layouts rounded corners with a bevel/drop shadow using one XML layer-list drawable instead of many 9-patch images.

Hiring is expensive and gas prices keep rising.

How to get Android to trust a server signed by a real CA like Thawte, not just a self-signed cert, by building the keystore correctly.

Fix for IntelliJ 10.5 freezing on Waiting for ADB during Android debugging -- invalidating caches and restarting the IDE clears it right up.

Why I'm moving my bootstrapped startups from Minneapolis back to Phoenix - mostly taxes and cost of running a lean business, plus what's next for me.

Getting No valid Maven installation found in IntelliJ?

JSONView turns ugly raw JSON API responses into readable, formatted output right in Firefox -- a small plugin that's a real productivity boost.