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Discover OkHttp, a powerful HTTP & HTTP/2 client for Android applications
Created by Square, OkHttp is an open source project designed to be an efficient HTTP and HTTP/2 client. It lets you to make fast requests and save bandwith. It offers some great features out of the box like to share a socket for all HTTP/2 requests to the same host, a connection pooling mechanism when HTTP/2 is not available, transparent…
Make fast cryptographic operations on Android with Conceal
By default, Android offers to developers some Java APIs to implement some cryptographic operations on Android. These APIs are great but not always easy to use and not really adapted to mobile environment with constraints. To solve this problem, Facebook has created a dedicated library named Conceal that provides a set of Java APIs to perform fast cryptographic operations on…
Accessing to the Java 8 language features with Android N
Google has unveiled developer preview of Android N last month with a new exciting developer program. Official release is planned for Q3 2016. Amongst the new features of Android N, the support of several Java 8 language features is a great addition for developers. Supported features include : Lambda expressions Default and static interface methods Repeatable annotations Method References Additionally,…
Leave your old Toasts and adopt the Snackbars on Android
Introduced with Android Lollipop, Material Design defines a complete visual language to interact with users in your applications. Amongst the best practices recommended by Google, a list of components is available. Even better, you can know when you must use these components. To display brief messages to users, you were used to create Toasts on your Android applications until now.…
Guide of classical gestures made on smartphone and tablets
With smartphone and tablets, users interact with applications with gestures. There are a lot of different kinds of gestures and each has a well defined name. In 2010, Luke Wroblewski has made a great work to classify all of these gestures in his "Touch Gesture Reference Guide" article that can be found here : . Even better, he gives some…
Enjoy the power of Universal Image Loader to load easily your images on Android
Recently, we have presented you Glide, a great library recommended by Google to load easily images on Android. It offers you some interesting features out of the box like disk and memory caching for example. Today, we’re going to present you a direct concurrent of Glide : Universal Image Loader. Universal Image Loader has been created to provide a powerful,…
Bad times for Google : The EU Commission could fine Google $7.45 billion for Antitrust charges
With record results from Android or on Ads market, Google continues to be a successful firm. But, that kind of success comes with a big amount of problems generally. An for Google, there is no exception at the rule ! Indeed, where as its battle with Oracle about the use of Java APIs on Android continue and is going in…
Google Play Store has now 2 million Apps available !
According a study from Sensor Tower, Google Play Store has now more than 2 million Apps and Games available ! The graphic below show the incredible evolution of that number since December 2009 until February 2016 passing from 16,000 apps to 2 million now. Data show also an evolution for the distribution of free and paid Android apps in the…
Install Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge skins in your Android Emulator
When you develop Android applications, using the Android Emulator to check the behaviour of your application on different kind of devices and configurations is an essential thing. With the tools offered by Google in the Android SDK, you can create virtual devices and define a lot specific parameters to emulate different configurations. For example, you can define screen size, resolution,…
Google is thinking to add Swift support on Android ? Don’t forget Kotlin !
Since Swift has been open sourced, it has received a lot of interests from individual developers or giant brands like Google, Facebook or Uber. Now, some sources reported that Google is considering making Swift a « first class » language for Android. Currently, Google’s Android operating system supports Java as its « first class » language but because of litigations with Oracle, Google could…