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Painless threading

06 May 2009

Whenever you first start an Android application, a thread called "main" is automatically created. The main thread, also called the...


Drawable mutations
Drawable mutations

04 May 2009

Android's drawables are extremely useful to easily build applications. A Drawable is a pluggable drawing container that is usually asso...


Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize with stubs
Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize with stubs

30 March 2009

Sharing and reusing layouts is very easy with Android thanks to the <include /> tag, sometimes even too easy and you might end up wit...


Window Backgrounds & UI Speed
Window Backgrounds & UI Speed

05 March 2009

Some Android applications require to squeeze every bit of performance out of the UI toolkit and there are many ways to do so. In this articl...


Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize by merging
Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize by merging

03 March 2009

In the previous installment of Android Layout Tricks , I showed you how to use the <include /> tag in XML layout to reuse and share ...


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Android Layout Tricks #2: Reusing layouts

25 February 2009

Android comes with a wide variety of widgets , small visual construction blocks you can glue together to present the users with complex and ...


Android Layout Tricks #1
Android Layout Tricks #1

24 February 2009

The Android UI toolkit offers several layout managers that are rather easy to use and, most of the time, you only need the basic features of...