Since joining Twiga Foods, I have been involved majorly in the development of our Android App. During the design and development of the first version of the app, there was really no Architecture Pattern that was followed. Many changes were made after deployment, and they learned one important lesson: They needed an architecture pattern that …
This is a short tip for Android Studio users. Many people know this, but I thought to still share for those that don’t know. As developers, when we’re building a UI layout in Android, it’s common desire to want to preview what we’re designing right? We usually want to add that sample data, like android:text=”Test …
Have you ever interacted with SQlite and wondered why your query is not returning all records in a given table. Well , I have and I almost gave up. It’s such a silly mistake or rather lack of concentration on my part. I wanted to get location data collected at intervals of 1 minute , …
To be very honest I didn’t know where the Flash Button was , I noticed it was after you turn on the flash option on your Camera Settings. So I decided to make a button which when clicked turned on/off the flash light depending on the status. I also thought it’ll be interesting if you …
During the Google I/O 2017, there were a lot of new announcements for the Android Platform. One of the announcements was the new architecture guidelines for Android! This is a welcome addition to the Android platform. They reduce the amount of boilerplate and repetitive code, leaving you to focus on the core functionality of your application. These components can …