Dependency injection

Once again, the brilliant developers at Square present another amazing tool:

Dagger: The dependency injection tool that helps the developer focus on building rather than using Google and duct tape to wire dependencies together.

Check it out here: http://square.github.io/dagger/

Providing Design Feedback

Julius Tarng gives advice on how to provide feedback over email.

Binder limits

Just hit a binder limit today through a pretty common problem:

I'm trying to save an image, and why not save the image as a byte array in SQLite3?

Doesn't sound like a good idea but , but it turns out it's impossible due to Binder's 1 MB transaction limit. As a result, it's a very bad idea to save image files in the SQLite database. Instead, the resources should be saved on disk.

Material Design in Google products

Recreating Google Music's toolbars
I think it's important to learn how high the bar is set from Google's designers. This Medium post by Daniel Veihelmann does a great job explaining how to recreate Material Design.

Using a TableLayout inside RecyclerView

Looking through Google's documentation on how to use RecyclerView, I was pretty confused on how to implement a Layout within a RecyclerView. There's not that many use-cases to store singular View like a TextView inside a RecyclerView, so I went ahead and experimented to see if it's possible to store a Layout, which allows storage of multiple Views.

And voila, I did it and have an example posted on my Github project.