When it comes to Android Development I think it’s safe to say that there’s the way things are taught, and then there’s the way that things are done. And in my 8+ years of Android development experience it’s safe to… Read More »From Beginner to Junior Android Dev: 10 things you need to learn
In this entry of my Android Pro Tip’s series I’m going to fill you in on an easy, one line piece of code you can use to detect if you’re running in a Firebase Test Lab. Why would you want… Read More »Android Pro Tip: How to determine if you’re running in a Firebase Test Lab
Welcome to my Android Pro Tip’s series — where I’ll try to share the most interesting, useful & little known tips & tricks I’ve learned in my 8+ years of being a freelance Android developer. To start with we’re going to start… Read More »Android Pro Tip: Generating your app’s changelog from Git inside build.gradle
As has become the norm for me in 2018, I’m going off again to travel for a couple of months. During which time I plan to have a little detox from coding which means, aside from bugs which need to… Read More »How I got Android App Installs + IAP numbers mailed to my Inbox
Any project I’ve ever worked on that wasn’t my own, there’s always the one project owner who wants every analytics SDK they’ve ever heard of compiled into their app. Measuring everything they can think of, mostly in case it might… Read More »From the Dashboard to the Inbox — An #IndieDev’s analytics solution
I’ve been an Android developer for 7 years, I’ve had 20+ apps on the app store, hundreds of thousands of downloads, had apps featured on Lifehacker, Gizmodo & Yahoo.com (when Yahoo was still kinda cool), worked for more clients than… Read More »Why your App Developer Résumé sucks — and how to fix it
So I recently received a cease & desist letter from a rather large company (think Google large), I won’t say who, requesting I remove one of my apps from the Play Store, an app which allowed the user to auto-reply… Read More »Cease & Desist: Can using Android’s Notification Listener violate another apps T&C’s?
I mentioned on a previous post that in my opinion an app’s (relative) success always comes down to the ratings. A good rating & more people will be inclined to give your app a try, a poor rating & it’s… Read More »The easiest way to get 5* reviews for your app? Just ask. (RatingManager Library)
A lot of my apps make use of things like the users contact list, evaluating bluetooth & wifi connections to trigger some particular action, displaying a list of the users currentlyinstalled apps.. Many basic things that have a few common… Read More »Boilerplater Libraries: Device Utils
If you’ve been building Android apps for a while you’ll know that most apps have a number of things in common that you end up writing over & over again, and I’m not talking about findViewById.. (if you’re still doing… Read More »Boilerplate libraries: Simple Changelog