Tag: android
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Android: Testing an Intent Service
There’s a handy thing in Espresso called the ServiceTestRule, which is for testing Services. Yay. I thought it was just what I needed until I read this bit of the documentation… OK, first up – refactoring my IntentService. This class already did very little, poking something else depending on the kind of Intent it received, and…
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Testing Intents on Android: Like Stabbing Yourself in the Eye With A Blunt Implement
The picture above shows what am I testing: the home screen of my app. There is a camera button, a gallery button and an inspire button. All of these launch intents, but the camera and gallery buttons launch intents that are expected to return something – an image – either from the camera or the…
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Android: Touch to Change Image
On iOS I do this using a button (with different pressed state), and I figured it would be the same on Android, but turns out, no. Step 1: Add a second image to the XML, and set the visibility to “gone”. This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently…
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Further Adventures in Android Development
I suspect one of my limitations as a programmer is that I don’t hack. I don’t beat away at something until it works. I read things, and I reason about it, and I write a lot of tests. This makes me very effective on platforms I’m familiar with, but I worry I’m as a result…
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Creating and Comparing Images on Android
A while ago, I wrote this blog post on creating and comparing UIImages. That code allowed me to develop the image processing part of the app against my unit tests, which was really, really helpful given that I rewrote it about four times to make it performant enough. So, when I started writing Android code…
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Cross-Platform Development Decisions
I’ve started to port Show and Hide to Android. There’s still a lot to do, but I hit a milestone of having it working end to end on the emulator last week, which was exciting. One of my friends asked if I was using any libraries to make it easier, and the short answer is no. But…
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iOSDevUK: Kenton Price: Teaching Your Client Android Design or Don’t be an iPhoney
The problem: Android devs generally given designs for iPhone. “But that’s just like Android, right?” Rid the world of these iPhoney apps now. Used to be like windows apps on Apple. People still do iOS first, Android is an afterthought. Android users want Android apps. Android users can tell when it’s an iPhone port. Android…
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My Inspiration App: App Concept
My app idea – a place to collect things that inspire, that can be found searching their tags, location, or type. I understand that people can and do use any number of other apps for this – Twitter favourites, for example, this is just supposed to be a purely happy and motivating place on our…
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Getting Set Up on Android
I used the event Programming Languages I’ve Been Meaning To Try But Haven’t Gotten Around To Yet at the Stripe offices (organised by Star Simpson) in San Francisco to get going on Android. Aside – I love the concept of this event. Great opportunity to hang out with your laptop, the only goal being to suck…