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A collection of 33 posts

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How we write UI at Twitter for Android

I gave a talk at 360|AnDev this year about how we modernized our UI architecture at Twitter, and a glimpse on how it looks like to write UI with it. Actual talk recording, where I talk about past, present and future of writing UI at TwitterPreparing the talk was

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Scaling Dagger: DI in a modular world

A few days ago I had the pleasure of giving a talk alongside César Puerta [https://twitter.com/CesarDielo] about some DI related stuff we have been working at Twitter in the last couple of years. Managing your DI setup while your codebase scales and the modules keep growing is

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"Video Docking at Twitter" talk at Londroid

Around May I gave a talk at Londroid about what I was building on Twitter at the time: our video docking (picture in picture) framework. Building video docking @Twitter [https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] with @mrmans0n [https://twitter.com/mrmans0n?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/

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Drebin, a binder library

Drebin is a binder library for Android's RecyclerView. The name comes from the Lt. Frank Drebin. First, because Leslie Nielsen is godlike. And second, because Drebin is an anagram for Binder. The binders are defined as stateless templates, can be easily injected if you are using a DI framework, and

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Revamp, tiny and opinionated MVP framework

I noticed I never talked here (or anywhere for that matter) about my take on MVP, called revamp [https://github.com/mrmans0n/revamp], that I started coding/using almost 2 years ago. It is a tiny framework that has been pivotal on the development of my personal apps. It comes

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Improvements in Smart Adapters 1.2

The 1.2.x version is the multi mapper release. And what does that mean? After receiving some feedback and dealing with some user problems, there was an issue that was coming up again and again: what if we wanted one object class to be mapped to to more than

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To hell with adapters, with Smart Adapters

What I have dreaded for ages in Android was having to deal with Adapters in my ListViews. The code is always boring and pretty much the same all the time, and whenever it feels different, it means that the cells are getting too complicated... the adapter's LOC grow more and

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Bye-hoo

Today is my last day at Yahoo. These months have been really fun; I've learned a lot and got to meet very cool people along the way! I wish you guys the best in your new adventures too! I will throw some pictures for nostalgia's sake 😂

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SmartLocation and its new API

I released the 3.x series of SmartLocation [https://github.com/mrmans0n/smart-location-lib] some time ago but I wanted to talk a bit about the API changes. I really wanted it to have a fluid API and be even easier to set up. The 1.x series relied on some

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Robolectric tests running in Android Studio

This article describes old stuff. The support for testing in Android Studio is now good enough and this stuff probably doesn't work anymore Been playing a lot with testing lately, but one thing that bothered me a lot was the shitty hacks one has to do for being able to

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Joined Yahoo!

It's been a hard road, but I moved to London on November and started working for Yahoo! as an Android Software Engineer. I am really excited to be working here. So much to learn, so much to improve. This blog update is long overdue, I know, but securing a flat

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Tools of choice when crafting Android apps

In this ever changing development world I wanted to take a little snapshot of which ones are my tools of choice when developing Android apps, both at work and at home. Design and prototyping Photoshop for design, all along. Though lately I've been experimenting by trying not to use it,

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How to style the ActionBar SearchView programmatically

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

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Betrayal Helper for Android

I've been playing a lot lately to the board game Betrayal at the House on the Hill [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10547/betrayal-at-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

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Android Annotations @ViewById Generator plugin for Android Studio / IntelliJ IDEA

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 [http://androidannotations.org]. You can access the menu by clicking on a layout id like R.layout.yourlayoutname, selecting Generate and

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Open Sourcing stuff

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

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Is fragmentation really that much of a problem in Android?

I always read the same and never-ending articles / posts / tweets about Android's fragmentation. The same boring infographics [http://opensignal.com/reports/fragmentation.php], 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

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How to fix a broken Android Studio SDK installation

It just happened to me. If you are in a situation where your Android Studio installation doesn't recognize any Android SDK (instead of a little andy, it shows a folder with a question mark over any Android SDK configured), you just have one diagnosis: your (hidden) configuration file is corrupted.

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New BikeShare! for Android

I've recently developed a brand new (rebuilt from scratch) version of BikeShare! for Android. It's been my first approach to tablet interfaces in my off work apps, and I really was thrilled to do so. The app suffered an UI overhaul, and its imagery was also redone. First, the icon.

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New additions to the family

I will be able to test my stuff in a new Android guinea pig, and boy… what a beautiful guinea pig theHTC One  is. And, for the first time ever, Sense is not a bother. It’s just beautiful. But nevertheless I’m excited about the Google Edition when it

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Android maven building borked with latest ADT 22

There were some major changes to Android  SDK layout, mainly moving all the build tools to another directory, with the pretty self-explanatory name “build-tools”. But since the version ofmaven-android-plugin  almost everybody uses at the moment (3.5.0) can’t handle this, we have to fix it – and be able

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Android's Camera Intent killing my Application

Working with the camerais always a pain in the ass . But at least in Android we have Intents. So, with little code we are able to get a working 300×300 thumbnail or even a picture with the best quality the device can offer. So I used it for a

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Clustering in Maps v2 for Android

I’ve been working in aclustering code ready for Maps v2 , as I didn’t found any full example I could use in some of my apps. So here you have it: a working example ofClustering in Maps v2 for Android [https://github.com/mrmans0n/android-maps-v2-clustering] for use in your

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At last! MapFragment is here!

Link: http://android-developers.blogspot.fr/2012/12/new-google-maps-android-api-now-part-of.html We suffered in silence for lots of time, but Google at last heard our cries. MapFragment  is here to stay! The new upgrade to the api features alsoPhotoSphere integration . but hey, that’s like the cherry on top of the cherry

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What to look for if you want to improve your Android app

Link: http://www.curious-creature.org/docs/android-performance-case-study-1.html I’ve been witness to some technical Android UI performance discussion between Joaquim Vergès [http://twitter.com/joenrv] (developer of the recently released and awesome Falcon Pro twitter client) and Romain Guy [http://twitter.com/romainguy] (Google Android engineer), and by reading