Renderscript on Android – basics
With Renderscript for Android there are three parts, two that you need to implement yourself, one in Java and one in c99, and then there is a generated api that binds the other two parts togeather. The...
View ArticleAndroid and Renderscript intrinsics
Intrinsics are renderscripts shipped with the platform, designed for some common image processing tasks. I will use an example from a real application where we wanted a few different things to happen...
View ArticlePros and Cons of some Android frameworks
This post is a summary of first impressions of a few android related frameworks that we (the Android team at Jayway) tried out during a competences session recently. Spring for Android “Spring for...
View ArticleRecyclerView and Databinding
The new DataBinding api is pretty easy to use for most simple bindings. When binding to a view that lives in a RecyclerView or other Adapter dependent View you need to stop and think a bit to get it...
View ArticleRxJava and Android examples
Some simple examples of what you can do with RxJava in Android. We will assume that our examples lives in the onCreate method of an Activity in a Android app for now. We will also assume there is a...
View ArticleRxJava, Retrofit and Databindings on Android
In this post I will showcase how you can combine RxJava, Retrofit and Android Databindings to do a simple lookup of country from a country code. The goal here is to avoid the very bloated...
View ArticleDroidcon 2016 in London
Bringing in names like Noah Falstein, Chet Haase and Nick Butcher I knew I was in for a treat going to Droidcon in London. Just a week before going to London I bought “Day of the Tentacle Remastered”...
View ArticleInput validation in Android
I was trying to enforce a input format and then validate the input data before submitting it in a post to our api. In the code samples below I’m using a Rx Observer “idValidObs” that observes a...
View ArticleRetrofit and auto relogin on a 401 response
One day while sitting at my desk minding my own code I suddenly found myself under siege by a evil api that only allowed my Set-Cookie header to live for 5 minutes. Since I consider myself to be a...
View ArticleA picture on the wall
When I decided to leave jayway I wanted to leave something behind, I opted for a picture on the wall of some of my colleagues. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to get everyone in the picture, due to...
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