Last year Jake Wharton published an article titled Just Say mNo to Hungarian Notation and I published a blog post showing how to flag Hungarian Notation as an error in Android Studio. It caused a little bit of controversy.

Just to be clear, it was never my intention for it …

The Android intent system is great. I want to let the user select an image they have taken so I can do something with it? I want to get contact details of one of the user's contacts? I want to let the user send an email? I don't have to …

In this post I'm going to explore the world of the transform api, as suggested by Reddit user sahal2080 in this comment

This is the forth part of an undecided number of posts about creating a Gradle plugin for Android. Part one can be found here, Part two can be …

This is the third part of an undecided number of posts about creating a Gradle plugin for Android. Part one can be found here and Part two can be found here.

For those of you that are asking "Part 2? I've been on tenterhooks waiting for part 2 and you're …

This is the second part of an undecided number of posts about creating a Gradle plugin for Android. Part one can be found here.

First up I'd like to thank everyone for their feedback on my previous post. It seems that I'm not the only one who found the documentation …

In this post I'm going to detail the steps I went through to create a Gradle plugin for Android from scratch.

I've been meaning to write this post for a while, ever since I did my first post Monkeying around with gradle to generate code and the recent Caster.IO …

I've been working on adding a widget into the app and I've hit a couple of little gotchyas. Here's what I've found and my ways around. (Hey, that rhymes.)

Jake Wharton has published an article titled Just Say mNo to Hungarian Notation and if you agree with what he says, here's a little tip to help you remember to say mNo by making use of the Search Structurally feature of Studio.

So let's start off with a very simple …

By now everyone has heard about the Marshmallow permission model. You havent? Where have you been? Go and read Requesting Permissions at Run Time and come back when you've finished. It's ok. I can wait...

So it's all well and good except when you're trying to run tests. When you're …

You know how it is - you're developing an app that uses an API out on the Internet. You're sitting on your development machine that uses wired ethernet. Your phone is connected to a wi-fi access point which is on a different network to your development machine and you need to …