A Complex Activity Transition (Part 2)

Posted on 15 Feb 2016 in android, transitions, animations by Greg E.

Activity transitions can provide a very nice effect. They provide continuity from one screen to another and give the user nice feedback as to what's happening. Sadly, the documentation and available resources are entirely lacking on how do it right and how to handle anything more than the most simple case....

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A Complex Activity Transition (Part 1)

Posted on 31 Jan 2016 in android, transitions, animations by Greg E.

Activity transitions can provide a very nice effect. They provide continuity from one screen to another and give the user nice feedback as to what's happening. Sadly, the documentation and available resources are entirely lacking on how do it right and how to handle anything more than the most simple case....

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Retiring Butterknife

Posted on 17 Nov 2015 in android, data binding, butterknife, java by Greg E.

Today I've retired another library from the toolbox. Here's what I'm using now....

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Controlling cookies, headers, and user agent in the Android WebView

Posted on 21 Oct 2015 in android, reycler, java by Greg E.

Often it's necessary to set cookies and headers or set the user agent using the Android Webview. These are all done in different ways in different scenarios and API levels....

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Recycler View with Expandable Items

Posted on 17 Sep 2015 in android, reycler, java by Greg E.

Take advantage of the Recycler View's ability to animate individual items in and out of the list to build a recycler view that has expandable and collapsible sections....

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