Blog Archive

2026

How to Combine PagingData with Other Flows Using asItemSnapshotListFlow

May 11 Android, Kotlin

Adding Scrollbars to Jetpack Compose

Feb 11 Android, Compose, Kotlin

2025

Smooth Theme Transitions in Compose with Animated ColorSchemes

Jul 1 Android, Compose, Kotlin

Turning Any Android Callback into a Flow with callbackFlow

Mar 22 Android, Kotlin

2024

UI Testing Made Easy: The Robot Test Pattern on Android

Dec 14

Modernizing Your Android App’s Data Storage: SharedPreferences to DataStore

Oct 10

Mastering ktlint: A Guide to Crafting Your Own Rules

Sep 7

Stop Repeating Yourself 2: Using Test Fixtures with AGP

Jul 29

Understanding Referrals using Google Play

Jun 27 Android, Play Store

Accessing Test Resources using Kotlin Multiplatform

Apr 17 Android

2022

Building Flipper Plugins for Fun and Profit

Sep 28 Android

2020

Android Developer Challenge

Jun 21 Android

Improving App Debugging with Flipper

Mar 10 Android

Dropping Columns Like It’s Hot

Feb 10 Android

2019

Stop Repeating Yourself: Sharing test code across Android Modules

Sep 21 Android, Testing

Hands on with ViewPager2

2016

Enabling Night Mode on Android Nougat

Aug 23 Android

Using Build Types with the Google Services Gradle Plugin

Mar 31 Android, Development, Gradle

Changelog for N Support Libraries

Mar 9 Android, Development

Using Dagger 1 and Kotlin

Feb 17

Android Studio Tips and Tricks

Jan 6 Android, Development

2015

Testing Intents with Espresso Intents

Sep 15 Android, Code, Development, Testing

Droidcon NYC 2015: @AnnotationProcessors(“ByExample”)

Sep 9 Android, Development

Using Espresso for Easy UI Testing

Aug 3 Android, Code, Development, Testing

Improving your code with Android Support Annotations

Jul 14 Android, Code, Development

Android Ripples with Rounded Corners

May 7 Android, Code, Development

2014

Blurred background effect for Android

Jul 9 Android, Code, Development, Github

Building OBS Studio for OS X

Jun 7 Guides, OS X

Embedding Google+ Posts in Octopress

Apr 13

ADB over WiFi

Mar 3

2013

2013 in Review

Dec 31 Personal

ColorArt: a library to do iTunes 11-style color matching for Android

Dec 12 Android, Code, Development, Github

Hands On with Google Helpouts

Nov 5 Development, Google, Helpouts

Using a ViewPager in a ScrollView

Oct 13 Android, Code, Tutorial

My Newest App: Bike Finder

Sep 16 Android, App

Parse Android To-do App Tutorial - Part Two - Users

Aug 20 Android, Development, Parse, Tutorial

Tutorial: Building an Android To-Do List app using Parse

Aug 14 Android, Development, Parse, Tutorial

Getting Mavericks’ Compressed Memory Feature in Ubuntu

Jun 12 Linux, Tutorial, Ubuntu

Running Crouton on a Chromebook Pixel

Jun 11 Chromebook, Google, Guides, Linux, Ubuntu

Hands On with Google Glass

Apr 29 Google, Project Glass, Review

Clickable Links in Android ListViews

Mar 29 Android, Code, Tutorial

Google Plus Messenger coming to ChromeOS?

Mar 28 ChromeOS, Google,

Google IO 2013 and Google Reader

Mar 14 Google

Guide to Google Authorship

Feb 25 Blog, Google, Google+

Sony unveils the PlayStation 4

Feb 20 PS4, PlayStation 4, Sony

Google’s Project Glass

Feb 20 Glass, Google, Project Glass

Boot Ubuntu from an SD Card on your Macbook Air (or Pro)

Jan 15 Guides

A Guide to Unlocking and Rooting your Android Phone

Jan 9 Android, Modding, One V

2012

VMware ‘Easy Install’ stuck on Ubuntu 12.04

Dec 20 Linux, Ubuntu 12.04, VMware

Nexus Q Review

Sep 7 Android, Nexus Q, Review

Nexus 7 Review

Jul 3 Android, Nexus 7, Review, Tablet

Shots from outside Google IO 2012

Jun 26 Google

Microsoft Surface: Has Microsoft nailed it?

Jun 19 Microsoft

WWDC Recap

Jun 11 Apple

My WWDC 2012 Predictions

Jun 7 Apple

The Raspberry Pi Has Arrived!

Jun 5 Review

Everyone should learn to program

Jun 3