Create a secret doorway to your app
This short post will be about creating a back-door to your app, giving you the option to provide more information or actions than you want end users to have. This will be using the Secret Code...
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Write your own Android Sync Adapter
On my last post on the subject, Write your own Android Authenticator, we embarked on a journey to the unfamiliar part of authentication on Android. I received many positive responses about it from you...
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Last week, Romain Guy posted about Optimizing hardware layers. He explained how hardware layers are a great way to boost the performance of your animations, but can also degrade it.When your view is...
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AOSP Part 1: Get the code using the Manifest and Repo tool
6 months ago, I moved to New York, the first city I lived in outside of Israel.With a new job at a new place, I decided to also try a new laptop running a new platform - Mac OS. I always used Windows...
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AOSP Part 2: Build variants
On the previous post, we got the AOSP code into our environment and learned how that process works. The _repo _tool and the Manifest project goes hand-in-hand, managing the 200+ git repositories, all...
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AOSP Part 3: Developing Efficiently
The AOSP codebase in big.Developing on the AOSP is not as simple as writing an app, where you execute a nice gradle target and poof! you see it on the device. So far in this series, we discussed how to...
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Yet another blog setup post
After several years of using Wordpress.com for my blog - I decided I need a change.I wanted to move to something different for a while, but kept postponing it because that would require some time and...
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Speed up your app
A few weeks ago, I gave a talk about Android Performance Optimization, at Droidcon NYC.I invested a lot of time in this presentation, since I wanted to show real examples for performance issues, and...
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Introducing "Grabag" - a simple way to watch TV.
UPDATE (09/2020): While I discontinued working on Grabag, this might still worth the read as the idea still lives on. To this day, I keep seeing this type of product being requested by people.About a...
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Automating my balcony shade... with NFC!
These past few months I spent mostly at home, as everyone else, and decided to take on a project to improve my time there. With three kids at our cozy apartment, it’s no wonder I loved spending a lot...
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