Software Engineer – Android
Job Description Why consider OPI, and why do people dig working here? Variety of consulting; new technologies, projects, and people on a regular basis. Stability; we’ve been around since 1996 and have a diverse mix ...
Android Development for iOS Developers
Android development has greatly improved since the early days. Maybe you tried it out when Android development was done in Eclipse, emulators were slow and buggy, and Java was the required language. Things have changed ...
Android Architecture Components
Near the start of November, the Google team finally hit the 1.0 stable release of its architecture components. Originally announced at Google IO 2017, these components were designed to allow Android developers to create maintainable ...
Android O – Autosizing TextViews
Introduction Android O is coming. Right now in June, we’re in Release Preview 3 with an expected final release date of Q3. My guess for the dessert name is Oreo, but I haven’t been right ...
Android GeofencingAPI
Intro The Android GeofencingApi makes it easy to define a circular virtual fence around a point on a map and monitor for transitions as the device crosses the virtual fence line. I recently built an ...
Using Android Product Flavors to build Full and Demo Version of the app.
ProductFlavor is a very powerful feature available in the Android gradle plugin that allows us to manage different “flavors” of an application. This is useful when you want the same application but with different features ...
Building a Kiosk Application in Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
Android L introduced “Screen Pinning” API. This allows an application to temporarily restrict a user from navigating away from your activity. When Screen Pinning in enabled, it restricts a user from gaining access to notification ...
Developing a native Android App using Groovy
Many of us Java developers have been curious about being able to develop native android app using groovy for a long time. This topic has been discussed in stackoverflow for years. In GR8Conf Europe this ...
Enterprise Mobile – More Than iOS vs Android
Every week our team here at OPI talks to a business or business owner and we get asked “iOS or Android?” and there is no right answer because it is the wrong question that is ...
Presentation: Intro to Android UI Development
Download Full Presentation This Tech Talk is an introduction to user interface development on the Android platform. Android is gaining a lot of ground as a mobile operating system. This talk will cover the basics ...