I stumbled upon a problem with the styling of a view at work. I had almost everything solved with a custom theme, but it all came down to style a SearchView widget of an ActionBar. That's where the fun begins. All of this must happen in your onCreateOptionsMenu method. With…

I've been playing a lot lately to the board game Betrayal at the House on the Hill, which is awesome, and I felt I needed to release a little helper app for it - keeping the score with the analogic meter you are provided with the game is a pain…

I released a little plugin this week for being used in Android Studio or IntelliJ, for being able to generate automatically the @ViewById annotations from the awesome Android Annotations. You can access the menu by clicking on a layout id like R.layout.yourlayoutname, selecting Generate and it will be…

I've submitted some new versions of Localio addressing bugs and adding some features (like XLSX support), but that's all in the ruby side. But being true to my roots, I've been working on some libraries lately, all of them for Android. You might want to check them out... SmartLocation: A…

I always read the same and never-ending articles / posts / tweets about Android's fragmentation. The same boring infographics, the same Google Play pie charts with Android version penetration, and always the same argument about how the developers are crazy about it, like if it's impossible to code because of that reason.…