Grokking Android

If you look at Compose it's weird.

Last week Android Q was released.

Kotlin has many nice things going for it - be it null safety, data classes, extension functions, immutable collections or many other things.

So lately there are a lot of headlines appearing that say "Businesses Moving To Chatbots, AI; Away From Mobile Apps", "The Rise of Chatbots - Why they’ll replace All Your Apps!"

In today's post I'm going to show how to develop a simple app for the Google Assistant.

Since I am going to use Cloud Functions For Firebase a bit more in coming posts on this blog, I am going to give a very brief overview of how you can use and test them.

Google Home will finally be available in Germany on August, 8th and in France this week.

Being an Android Developer, Google's announcement of Android Things immediately piqued my interest.

As you can see from the following excerpt of ConstraintLayout's supported attributes, there is no layout_constraintStart_toCenterX attribute.

At this year's IO Google introduced a new layout - the ConstraintLayout - and also presented it's totally revamped layout editor.

RxJava's Observable class has plenty of methods that can be used to transform the stream of emitted items to the kind of data that you need.

When starting to use RxJava you have to create Observables.

Last week, after I published my introduction to RecyclerView Paul Betts asked on Twitter whether ItemDecorators are useful for displaying the selection state of items.

At this year's Google I/O, Google released a preview to the upcoming Android version.

This post is inspired by Cyril Mottier's post about Dart for Android.

This is a new series about programming blunders I make.

In this post I am going to write about the server-side of upstream messages with Google Cloud Messaging.

Google announced a new messaging model with Google Cloud Messaging on last years Google IO.

Google announced a new set of tools this week to help developers publish their Chrome apps on iOS and Android.

Quite a while ago I ordered a Peak+ FirefoxOS phone at geeksphone.com.