This blog post is part 2 in our series about Wallace, our four wheeled, Android Things on an RPi3 powered company house robot. You can find the first part of…
Background Here at Jayway, competence development has always been a crucial part of our culture. Apart from founding, hosting and attending one of the biggest developer conferences in Europe -…
If you go to Xamarin home page it will tell you that there are two types of Xamarin, native and forms. Native is for full pledge down to the metal apps for…
I was trying to enforce a input format and then validate the input data before submitting it in a post to our api. In the code samples below I'm using…
Bringing in names like Noah Falstein, Chet Haase and Nick Butcher I knew I was in for a treat going to Droidcon in London. Just a week before going to…
In this post I will showcase how you can combine RxJava, Retrofit and Android Databindings to do a simple lookup of country from a country code. The goal here is…
I have been working in a couple of projects where we have created the “same” application in both Android and iOS. In most cases they look and behave the same…
Android networking doesn't sound very radical nowadays. Actually, it's hard to find apps that don't have some sort of network dependency. Some of them won't even start without a stable network. Others…
Android and databases are powerful and really good to have but it is also not so fun working with. I'm going to show if not a funny way at least…
I have worked in a few app projects that have been up and running for quite some time. The apps often handle a bunch of error states or seldom visited…
I get a lot of questions from “newbies” on how to best approach app development. I think the best way is to keep it simple, so this is my approach…
In my latest project I was responsible for test and quality of a hybrid mobile application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. The plan was to have a simple native…
In our current project we are using Robolectric when writing unit tests for our Android application and it has been working out really well. Recently I needed to write a…
One thing that’s nagged me when using the Android Gradle build system is that by default the APK files produced will have the nondescript name of app-debug.apk and cousins. This stems from the default and preferred project setup where the application code is contained in the “app” directory, and the name of the directory by default is used for the APK name. But if you’ve ever had to distribute your APK artifacts to other people this simple name won’t cut it.
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In this post I’ll show you how to setup Gradle for an Android project to automatically generate a usable versionCode from a standardized version number. (more…)