Chris Banes

Conference: DevFest Tokyo Description # The design library introduced CoordinatorLayout, AppBarLayout and CollapsingToolbarLayout last year.

Conference: Droidcon NYC Description # The support library has become a necessity for the majority of Android developers.

Conference: Droidcon Berlin 2016 Description # Themes and styles are the bedrock of your apps styling, yet most developers look at them with fear.

Conference: Google I/O Co-speaker: Alan Viverette Description # Themes and styles are the bedrock of styling your Android UI, but do you know how they work?

Conference: Google I/O 2016 Co-speakers: Alan Viverette and Tenghui Zhu Description # Compatibility with older versions of Android is a must-have for most applications.

Implement dark theme support in your Android app using AppCompat DayNight functionality with multiple night mode options and proper theme resource configuration

AppCompat v23.2 adds VectorDrawableCompat for seamless vector drawable support on Android 2.1+, reducing app size and enabling consistent vector asset usage across all devices

Conference: Android Dev Summit 2015 Description # The Android Support Libraries contain great libraries which help you jump-start your Android app.

Meetup: Londroid Description # The Android Support Libraries contain great libraries which help you jump-start your Android app.

Conference: Droidcon NYC 2015 Co-speakers: Nick Butcher and Roman Nurik Description # A round-up of some of the latest new tools and frameworks that help you make amazing, beautiful, and very material Android UIs.

Explore the major architectural changes in Support Library v22.1.0 including AppCompat refactoring with the new delegate API, material-styled dialogs and AlertDialogs, theme support for any view

Understand the difference between themes and styles in Android, leverage ContextThemeWrapper and ThemeOverlay for view-level theme overrides, and use android:theme for material design customization

Conference # Droidcon London 2014

Updated documentation for Palette API in Android Lollipop covering synchronous and asynchronous color extraction, swatch management, and custom color selection techniques

AppCompat v21 brings Material Design support to pre-Lollipop devices with new Toolbar widget, color palette theming, and widget tinting capabilities

Simplify System UI visibility management across Android API levels using a helper utility that abstracts away version-specific differences for controlling status bar and navigation bar visibility

Complete guide to using the Android L Palette support library for extracting dominant colors from images and applying them to UI elements dynamically

Release of Philm movie collection app to open-source under Apache 2.0 license, featuring experimental MVC architecture and integration with Trakt and TMDB APIs

Accurately measure and center text on Canvas using Paint.measureText() and Paint.getTextBounds() methods to determine proper text positioning and dimensions

Master advanced color selection algorithms using HSV color space to identify dominant, colorful accent colors and readable text colors from image palettes

Migration from WordPress to Ghost platform to improve site performance and simplify blog management with faster load times and cleaner design

Implement dynamic color extraction from images using Median Cut Quantization to create vibrant, contextual app theming similar to iTunes album art matching

Overview of maintenance plans for Android open-source libraries including ActionBar-PullToRefresh, PhotoView, Android-BitmapCache, and Android-PullToRefresh, with timelines for v1.0 releases and Maven Central publication

Master the process of publishing Android Archive (AAR) libraries to Maven Central Repository using Gradle

Explore ActionBar-PullToRefresh, a customizable open-source library that implements Gmail-style pull-to-refresh UI patterns with automatic Action Bar styling for Android apps

Configure IntelliJ copyright profiles and scopes for Android projects to automatically manage license headers in source and resource files

Implement the Checkable interface correctly to create custom checkable views with proper state management and drawable state changes

Prevent ListView position flickering when swapping cursors by blocking the layout children during data updates and using setSelectionFromTop to maintain scroll position

Android-PullToRefresh library development has been stopped after 18 months as the project reached feature completeness and maintenance burden became unsustainable

Create visually prominent animated Action Bar items that guide users toward important actions by implementing custom action layouts with background animations

Android-BitmapCache v2.1 introduces CacheableBitmapDrawable for enhanced reference counting, background thread disk access, and race condition fixes to improve bitmap lifecycle management

Release of photup photo-sharing app to open source under Apache v2 license with 80,000 downloads, featuring photo tagging, uploading services, and clean code examples for Android developers

Optimize ImageView performance in RecyclerViews and GridViews by skipping unnecessary layout passes when displaying images of equal size, improving scrolling performance

Leverage Android’s built-in DateUtils class to format relative time spans, date ranges, and localized date-time strings without manual implementation

Android-BitmapCache is a comprehensive multi-level bitmap caching library offering both memory and disk caching using DiskLruCache for optimal image storage and retrieval

Major improvements to PhotoView library enabling multi-touch image viewing with pinch-zoom and drag functionality, refactored for seamless ImageView integration via PhotoViewAttacher

First stable release of photup app with 80,000+ downloads and 4.4 rating, highlighting motivations, experimental architecture decisions, and performance analytics from Facebook Insights

Second beta release of photup with improved Facebook session management, new login flow, swipe-to-dismiss uploads, and enhanced notifications for Android ICS and Jelly Bean

Beta release of photup Facebook photo-sharing Android app with features including photo effects, face detection, tag creation, and smooth UI for batch uploading to Facebook

Learn advanced bitmap memory management techniques using LruCache with reference tracking to properly recycle Bitmap objects in Android and prevent memory leaks

Set up a Raspberry Pi as a DLNA media server by mounting external drives, installing and configuring MiniDLNA, and indexing your media library for streaming across your home network

Safely overclock your Raspberry Pi to achieve up to 25% performance improvements by adjusting CPU and RAM frequencies through the boot config file

Optimize your fresh Raspberry Pi installation for efficient operation by enabling SSH, tuning filesystem options, removing unnecessary packages, and reducing GPU memory allocation

Learn how to customize the pull-to-refresh indicator drawable in Android with rotating animations that respond to user scroll distance

Explore the design philosophy behind making pull-to-refresh more discoverable on Android by adding visual indicator graphics at the top/bottom of the screen