Issue #59

April 13th, 2013

Articles & Tutorials

Link Bild Detect Global Touch Event (kpbird.com)

Providing a global menu which can be opened from left or right edge of the mobile screen is pretty common in apps these days. One of the technical hurdles is to detect a global onTouch event in Android. In this blog post Ketan Parmar explains how it can be done.

 

Android app to the Challenge (udinic.wordpress.com)
Great post and video by Udi Cohen on how to tweak the performance of Android apps to the max

Prime Guide: Lessons learnt - Android App Development (de.slideshare.net)
In these slides Markus Junginger shows us which lessons he learned while developing a TV guide app for multiple Android platforms.

Adapters – Part 1 (blog.stylingandroid.com)
Mark Allison has started a new series dedicated to Adapters. Good stuff for beginners and a nice refresher for the experts.

Adapters – Part 2 (blog.stylingandroid.com)
Part 2 of the Adapter series.

ResultReceiver - Receive results from a service (ramdroid.github.io)
If you're writing a service you might want to send data to your Activity. In this post Ronald Ammann explains how to do this using ResultReceiver.

Building clean RPN part one – Toggling the device and built in keypad (lukesleeman.com.au)
In this post Luke Sleeman show you hoe to toggle the device keyboard with a custom one.

Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone (net-security.org)
This article is not directly Android related but it is crazy cool nonetheless: Hugo Teso shows how to hijack a plane just with an Android phone.

Jobs

Eventbrite Senior Android Mobile Engineer (San Francisco, CA)
We're looking for a mobile engineer to help build cutting-edge Android apps for Eventbrite. We're building the tools that allow event organizers to sell tickets or check in attendees right on their phone or tablet, and to allow attendees to check in at events.

SoundCloud Android Developer (Berlin, Germany)
Are you passionate about the latest Android SDK developments and 100% focused on great user experience and beautiful code? If you want to build exciting new features for the SoundCloud Android app and potentially other platforms, then this is for you.

Post a job on Android Weekly (androidweekly.net)

Libraries & Code

Activity Split Animation (udinic.wordpress.com)
Udi Cohen has released a component for a split transition between two activities.

Slide Expandable List View (github.com)
Tjerk Wolterink has released an Expandable List View like the fancy one you can see in the Spotify app.

Android Async (github.com)
AndroidAsync is a java.nio based socket and http library for Android.

News

Link Bild New Look, New Purchase Flow in Google Play (android-developers.blogspot.de)

There is a new Google Play Store in town. It is rolling out worldwide to Android phones and tablets. The UI got a lot better but the most important feature is that the "In App Purchase" is now dialog based. You don't have to leave the app to buy stuff.

 

Facebook Home review: are people more important than apps? (theverge.com)
Facebook has announced their new home screen.

Screencasts

 

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