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- Weekly Questions Thread - January 02, 2017
- Do you want to contribute to an Open Source App?
- Auto-Layout for Sketch - now supports Android
- An easy yet powerful device discovery library for Android.
- Advice Needed. NavigationDrawer with Fragments or Activities
- How to Add Google Service in Unity Game
- Reading open source documentation to improve own knowledge
- Trying to write an Oauth concept app, need guidance on starting place
- Library to make implementing galleries more easier
- What ever happened to the patent troll that was suing devs for uploading apps to the play store?
- Flow-based MVP Example @ GitHub
- A Closer Look at Google's Material Design Components Library
- I develop on a Surface Pro 4. Is a custom built dev machine going to be significantly better?
- What language / framework do you use to build apps?
- Is there anything "wrong" with this Dagger implementation? Would you improve it somehow?
- Where can I found a good template of a information layout?
- Library: CheckBox and RadioButton with 3rd 'indeterminate' state
- Want to become an Android developer? Use these interactive questions to test and improve your java OOP skills.
- How to go about converting Excel Spreadsheet to android app
- Installing the Android SDK command line tools
- How do you add self updating information to your app?
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| Weekly Questions Thread - January 02, 2017 Posted: 02 Jan 2017 04:14 AM PST This thread is for simple questions that don't warrant their own thread (although we suggest checking the sidebar, the wiki, or Stack Overflow before posting). Examples of questions:
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| Do you want to contribute to an Open Source App? Posted: 02 Jan 2017 10:15 PM PST Over time, I've seen many people mention that they would like to contribute to open source projects, but don't know where to start. So I made a list of apps that you can contribute to. Amaze: File Manager AnkiDroid: Memorization helper using flash cards Bitcoin Wallet: Standalone Bitcoin Wallet for Android Briar: Secure and private instant messaging Currency: Currency converter Equate: Calculator with unit conversion F-Droid: Open Source App Repository FaceSlim: Web App for Facebook Forecastie: Weather App with Widget ForkHub: Github Client K9 Mail: Email Client Keepass2Android: Password Manager (written in C#) LibreTorrent: Torrent Client Microg: Replacement for Google Services NewTube: Youtube Player oandbackup: Backup Manager OsmAnd: Maps and Navigation Popcorn Time: Streaming Torrent Client RedReader Reddit Client Riot: Instant Messenger Syncthing: File Synchronization Timber: Music Player Transportr: Public Transport Companion OpenTasks: Task App Various Apps by Simple Mobile Tools Also check out F-Droid for more apps you might be interested in. Now after you picked an app where you want to contribute, how do you get started? My suggestion is, just install the app and use it for a while. Chances are, you will run into a bug, or notice something that could be improved. Alternatively, you can just check the projects issue tracker for something you're interested in. Just try to keep it simple in the beginning. Before you start programming, it's a good idea to get in contact with the developers. If there's no open issue for your contribution, you should open one to make sure the developers agree with your proposed solution (and they can give you some help if you ask). After that, clone the repository, find the right spot in the source code, and fix the problem. Then create a pull request on Github. The developers might have some comments and you might have to change some things. But this shouldn't be hard, especially if you did a small change. And that's it, your first contribution! [link] [comments]  |
| Auto-Layout for Sketch - now supports Android Posted: 02 Jan 2017 10:24 AM PST |
| An easy yet powerful device discovery library for Android. Posted: 02 Jan 2017 09:26 PM PST |
| Advice Needed. NavigationDrawer with Fragments or Activities Posted: 02 Jan 2017 10:25 PM PST Hello! I am developing a (Human Activity Recognition) HAR application that will constantly track user's contextual data (walking, running) and log it into a database. I am currently working on the design of the app. I want to use Navigation Drawer to switch between Home, History, Settings and Help screens. My question is, am I better off using Activities to implement these screens and the nav drawer will transition between those or fragments and just one main activity with frameLayout as a container? I would appreciate any recommendations. Thank you in advance! P.S.: I found this tutorial on how to implement the drawer with fragments: https://www.simplifiedcoding.net/android-navigation-drawer-example-using-fragments/ [link] [comments]  |
| How to Add Google Service in Unity Game Posted: 02 Jan 2017 10:18 PM PST Unity Admob API Unity Firebase Analytic API Unity Google Game API Unity Admob Tutorial Unity Firebase Analytic Tutorial Unity Play Game Service Tutorial Firebase Remote config and log Quick Start Installation Google Play Game Service Unity Plugin Open your project in the Unity editor. Navigate to Assets -> Import Package -> Custom Package. Select the google_service_unity_plugin.unitypackage file. Import all of the files for the plugins by selecting Import. Make sure to check for any conflicts with files.playgamedemo.cs and game.unity is demo file can be ignored. replace all "com.google.demo" with your app package id in AndroidManifest.xml replace app_id content with your google play game id,replace google_app_id content with your google firebase app id in ids.xml Show Admob Ads in Unity game using admob; Admob.Instance().initAdmob("ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/2934735716", "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/4411468910"); Admob.Instance().showBannerRelative(AdSize.Banner, AdPosition.BOTTOM_CENTER, 30, "defaultBanner"); just 2 line code,admob banner will been shown on screen.for more usage Unity Admob Tutorial Analytic Unity game with firebase Analytic using google.service.game; FirebaseAnalytic.Instance().logEvent("appstart", "{\"time\":\"112222\",\"name\":\"demouser\"}"); Log Event with Firebase Analytic.For more usage about Firebase Analytic Unity Unity Firebase Analytic Tutorial Using Google Play Game Achievements and Leaderboards in Unity game Login with google play service using google.service.game; GoogleGame.Instance().login (true, false); You can call google play game api after login success such as show Leaderboards with default UI GoogleGame.Instance().showLeaderboards(); Show Google play game Achievements with default UI GoogleGame.Instance().showAchievements(); 4.Fore more usage about google play game service in unity Unity Google Play Game Tutorial [link] [comments]  |
| Reading open source documentation to improve own knowledge Posted: 02 Jan 2017 04:54 PM PST Just wanted to share a tip with other budding Android developers. Especially in major bluechip/tech companies' apps, I will find the info about which third-party libraries are used. It's usually in Settings, buried at the bottom of the nav drawer, or something. This is a cool way to see what libraries are being used by seriously talented Android devs and to learn about new libraries that I've never even heard of before. Happy coding and waiting for Gradle to build, to all... [link] [comments]  |
| Trying to write an Oauth concept app, need guidance on starting place Posted: 02 Jan 2017 03:23 PM PST Hi, I'm hoping to write a concept app to practice with Oauth on the android platform. Basically my idea is to write something that will prompt a user to login to something like instagram/twitter/facebook/google using credentials that are already stored on their device. Once authenticated it could simply open twitter/facebook/etc in a browser window to prove that the authentication was successful. I'm doing this just to learn so I really want to just start with one service, not important witch one. I'm very new to this all so I wanted to see if anyone had suggestions on frameworks to use to get the best product.
Looks like I'm supposed to use Chrome custom tabs for this. At the moment I have the app able to load instagram.com in a CCT. When I click login I'm redirected to the regular sign-on page. I guess now I just have to figure out how to replace that with the Oauth function. If anyone has a good tip for the smoothest way to go about this, let me know. Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Library to make implementing galleries more easier Posted: 02 Jan 2017 08:53 PM PST |
| What ever happened to the patent troll that was suing devs for uploading apps to the play store? Posted: 02 Jan 2017 12:31 PM PST Back in June, there were a few articles that ran over on AndroidAuthority and the like about a company called Uniloc suing not only Google, but also individual app devs, for posting their apps on the Play Store. Their patent basically covered the entire idea of an Android app store, so it gave them the ability to go after pretty much anyone who uploaded. https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4n08jj/developer_is_being_sued_for_using_the_google_play/ I've been looking for information on what's happened with these guys, and I'm not finding a lot. Has anyone heard anything new on this? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Flow-based MVP Example @ GitHub Posted: 02 Jan 2017 03:35 AM PST |
| A Closer Look at Google's Material Design Components Library Posted: 02 Jan 2017 09:12 AM PST |
| I develop on a Surface Pro 4. Is a custom built dev machine going to be significantly better? Posted: 02 Jan 2017 05:27 PM PST Core i5 6300U (2 cores, 4 logical CPUs - 2.4 GHz), 8GB RAM, SSD for storage. I compile reasonably small apps from github and do some development now and then. I find AS annoyingly slow at compiling a full build and still kinda slow (say 30-60s) if I just make a small change and rebuild the apk (not a clean build). And the UI feels a bit sluggish (not too bad). I've used Linux for years but using Windows now for unavoidable reasons (that I'm okay with). But every once in a while, I feel like having a Linux headless machine again would be very helpful for Android dev and some occasional debugging (eg: messing around with Raspberry Pi and OpenWrt, etc). If I can get a significant benefit in compile time with AS, I'm willing to build a Linux machine if it's around $500 (think one of those mini PCs/barebones). Do you think a headless 4 core (not logical) Core i7 (or similar AMD CPU) + 16 GB RAM + SSD would give me a significant benefit for Android dev over the Surface Pro 4? I'll probably be VNCing from Windows or running X over ssh from Cygwin. Don't care for gaming or anything else. [link] [comments]  |
| What language / framework do you use to build apps? Posted: 02 Jan 2017 01:39 PM PST Was wondering what good alternative I could find before jumping on to java. [link] [comments]  |
| Is there anything "wrong" with this Dagger implementation? Would you improve it somehow? Posted: 02 Jan 2017 05:04 AM PST I've been reading a lot on Dagger 2 and trying to get my head around all the concepts. After reading many articles and looking at many code examples on GitHub projects, I've implemented Dagger 2 on my application with the following structure: There's a few things that I'm not sure about this implementation that I'd like to discuss...
Besides the above questions, do you have any other general comments and improvement suggestions? [link] [comments]  |
| Where can I found a good template of a information layout? Posted: 02 Jan 2017 03:16 PM PST I have a listview and every time that the user tab an item the app takes the user to another activity, I want to create a layout to show more info of the item clicked, where can I find templates of a info layout kinda like a table or something similar it doesn't have to be a table [link] [comments]  |
| Library: CheckBox and RadioButton with 3rd 'indeterminate' state Posted: 02 Jan 2017 12:09 AM PST |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2017 12:02 PM PST The questions use a "fill in the blank" format You can find them at https://jacqueslenormand.com/javac Background: I'm an ex Google engineer turned educator who wrote these questions for my students and wanted to share them with the community. [link] [comments]  |
| How to go about converting Excel Spreadsheet to android app Posted: 02 Jan 2017 02:16 AM PST I have an excel spreadsheet with some interactive cells that take user input and give output accordingly using excel functions. It also forms a graph based on the input data. How do I convert this spreadsheet to an android application. Any easy way, or where should I start? I have some basic experience with android studio. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Installing the Android SDK command line tools Posted: 02 Jan 2017 06:33 AM PST |
| How do you add self updating information to your app? Posted: 02 Jan 2017 07:54 AM PST Generally speaking, how can you add self updating information in your app with information from the web? For example, is there a way i can add a list of all TV shows currently on netflix and have that information self update as more shows are added in my app? Also i was hoping to achieve this in android studio if possible, thanks! [link] [comments]  |
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