Tuesday, June 10, 2015 was the first meeting of Android Atelier, an Android study group coming together to exercise our Android muscles by building open source applications.
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The long and short of it: if you are using any subclass of FragmentActivity (like the new AppCompatActivity) and you are thinking of doing any kind of fragment transaction in onResume, do it in onResumeFragments.
If you feel like some detail and some caveats, read on. If not, no worries. Have a good one and see you next post.
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I love Lint. I love Lint because it mocks me. Lint mocks me with little yellow markers pointing out questionable code that I need to tidy, and being on the OCD-ish side, I do that.
Lint can also generate a full warnings and errors report. The report can be (and depending on your code base, often is) overwhelming, but a fairly straightforward-to-find section is the "Unused Resources". Unused resources (layouts, strings, colors, drawables, etc.) bloat the application and slow down builds. So obviously, these jerks have got to go.
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I gave my first AnDevCon presentation this morning at AnDevCon Boston: "Building a Custom Camera Application." I again want to thank everyone who came to my session. I had a great time talking to you guys. There were a loose ends I wanted to tie up from the end of my session (including posting of my code and some follow-up answers I promised).
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