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Creating your first .dart class

posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2017 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

  Our first .dart class is going to be pretty simple for example sake. We’re going to run our app and show some simple text on the screen. You’ll notice that the screenshot on the left here displays a simple app that is just showing us some sample text in the center of the screen. Reaching… Continue reading →

Creating a Flutter project

posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2017 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

In order to create a new Flutter project, you’ll want to begin by opening up IntelliJ IDEA. Creating a new project To create a new project we will need to select File from the menu and hit ‘New Project’. At this point, we will be presented with the new project dialog. At this point you will… Continue reading →

Getting setup with Flutter

posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2017 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

In order to begin creating mobile apps using Flutter, we need to get setup on our development system. Download the Flutter SDK You can get started by downloading the Flutter SDK from this site. If you’re running a mac, this is simply a case of cloning the repo for Flutter: $ git clone -b alpha https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git… Continue reading →

Exploring the Android EmojiCompat Library

posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2017 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

Emojis are everywhere — it’s hard to visit a website, app or have a conversation without emojis popping up somewhere along the line 😀 Because of this, it’s important that all users who are involved in these kind of activities are able to see the emojis being used. If not, textual content can be misunderstood or misinterpreted…. Continue reading →

Exploring Background Execution Limits on Android Oreo

posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2017 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

Last week came the official announcement of the Android O release. This release of Android comes with some really cool new additions, and in this post I want to look specifically at the new restrictions that have been introduced for background services. If you’re using background services in your app then changes could affect your… Continue reading →

Exploring Android O: Notification Badges

posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2017 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

Now the Android O APIs have finalised, Android O is just around the corner — which means we need to be sure our apps are filled with the latest goodies from the API. In this article we’re going to be taking a look at one of my favourite Android O features: Notification Badges 👌 I feel like… Continue reading →

Exploring the new Android Architecture Components library

posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2017 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

What an I/O! There were so many exciting things announced this year and too much that I want to write about! One of the topics that I (and a lot of other people) were hyped for was on Architecture. From these talks Architecture Components was announced, and after playing with them since, I’m taking this… Continue reading →

BrailleBox: Building a Braille news reader with Android Things

posted in Uncategorized on May 2, 2017 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

On one side of my family runs a genetic condition known as Retinitis Pigmentosa — this is essentially a condition that causes your eyesight to deteriorate over time. Often, this makes me think about how the technology that we create could actually make a difference to someones life and how we, as creators, could be a part… Continue reading →

Exploring Android O: Notification Channels

posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2017 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

This week we saw the announcement of the first Android-O developer preview. One of the features of this announcement includes Notification Channels — in this article we’re going to take a look at exactly what these are and how we can make use of them within our applications! Notification Channels provide us with the ability to group… Continue reading →

Exploring Firebase on Android: Dynamic Links

posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2017 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

Firebase is such an exciting new collection of services that I’ve been reading up on and experimenting with. In this new series of articles, we’ll be covering the features of firebase to learn exactly what we can do with each integration. In this chapter, we’re going to be taking a look at Firebase Dynamic Links — the… Continue reading →

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