Last week we saw the surprise release of the Developer Preview for Android N, which saw some exciting new additions for us to get our hands on! One of these features is known as Picture-in-Picture mode, which leverages the new multi-window APIs in Android N. Let’s take a look at this exciting new feature and… Continue reading
Android TV is an exciting platform, whilst it uses the same Android OS we interact with on our phones, tablets and wearable devices – it requires a different approach when it comes to designing applications for such large screens. I’ve been fixated on Android TV a lot over the last 6 months, so here’s my… Continue reading
In Software Engineering 101, the first data structure that we’re going to look at is the Linked List. As the name says, the Linked List is a list which consists of a sequence of accessible nodes. It’s both a simple and common data structure that can be used as an approach for implementations of queues,… Continue reading
Welcome to the first post on Software Engineering 101, where I aim to post weekly(ish) deep-dive articles on algorithms, design patterns, data structures and more! This week we’ll be taking a look at the Insertion Sort algorithm. Insertion Sort is an algorithm used to sort a given list of items. It does so by iterating… Continue reading
Several months ago I took a look at the new Android Permissions model where things were changing quite a lot with the introduction of Marshmallow. the implementation of this new model meant that we needed to ensure that: We checked if we had the permission we needed when it was required We requested the permission… Continue reading
Everyone loves TV, I’m certain plenty of households watch hours and hours of live TV every week — it’s as if people are hooked. But is there any reason not to be? Content is always present when using your TV, you can flick between channels and there’s instant playback of media on your screen. Even if we… Continue reading
At ribot we care about creating beautiful and meaningful experiences for people, in which motion plays a big part. After seeing an inspiring talk at Droidcon London, I decided to dig deep into motion on Android. From this, I’ve put together my findings to help make both Developers & Designers aware of just how easy… Continue reading
At ribot we get the chance to attend conferences throughout the year, so me and Iván made a trip up to Droidcon London. I learnt a lot, met some great people and made a lot of notes over the last two days – so here’s a (very) brief summary of my time at the event…. Continue reading
The Place Picker Widget and Autocomplete component are two powerful features part of Google Play Services. Here we take a look at both of these componenets and how we can implement them in our applications. As of Play Services 7.0, Google have made some great features available for us to implement into our apps –… Continue reading
Building an MVVM architectured application using the Data Binding Library The Data Binding library for android is something that I’ve been keen to check out for a short while. I decided to experiment with it using the Model-View-ViewModel architectural approach. To do this, I took a HackerNews Reader app that @matto1990 and I worked on together,… Continue reading