Hunting Unused Android Resources with Lint

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.

AnDevCon 2014: "Building Custom Camera Applications"

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).

Development, AndroidHuyen Tue DaoMay 30, 2014Randomly Typingandevcon, android, camera

MATCH_PARENT vs FILL_PARENT: What Not to Do and What to Do

In this post I am discussing the layout mode MATCH_PARENT/FILL_PARENT as well as touching on how it works and what to do and not do with it.

Here's the short of it: unless you are compiling against Froyo (API 8), please stop using FILL_PARENT to specify layout_width and layout_height. Use MATCH_PARENT. They have the same integer value, but FILL_PARENT is deprecated and the name itself is misleading. Please, use MATCH_PARENT.