Disclaimer: I am inclined to dislike ConstraintLayout because it’s WYSIWYG. That said, I spent about 30 minutes trying to use it. (1/2)
In N: exit multiwindow. Activity recreated. Query isInMultiWindowMode(). Returns true. Google: “Working as intended” commonsware.com/blog/2016/06…
Ben B retweeted
This month, @TMSBen talks more NFC and gives the nitty-gritty on implementing it in your #Android app: toastdroid.com/2016/06/06/nf…
Buddy just lost 1hr of productivity because a tab snuck in to his Python script and generated a spurious error. #JustSayNoToWhitespace #Ruby
“[With] constraint layouts & recycler views, do we really need any other container anymore?” reddit.com/r/androiddev/comm… media.giphy.com/media/Ow59c0…
Talking to @Hay: "I’m still suspicious. Things that mysteriously start working have a tendency to mysteriously stop working again too."
I was hoping this was the error you threw when the developer made a boneheaded error. Alas. docs.oracle.com/javase/7/doc…
Thinking about overkill in software architecture. Physical architecture exceeds bare min. & follows code to withstand disaster. Makes sense.
YouTube live streaming support for going back in time and watching at 1.5x to catch up to real time is very cool.
Ben B retweeted
Replying to @chiuki
@chiuki bah, this is going to be like when @romainguy got quoted saying always/never use RelativeLayout 😁
Wisdom from Android Dev Summit: “A lot of people write Fragments when they really meant to write a custom View.”
MRW Chromecasting this Android Dev Summit in the living room
youtube.com/watch?v=GV2Y2kIU…
Ben B retweeted
Explore concerts in your area w/ Soundcheck for #Android coming 12/15. Sign up & get it 1st bit.ly/1S9AYry
What got cut from tonight’s NFC talk: researchers’ shopping cart NFC antenna to sniff grocery store transactions.
Previous tweet a preview from my NFC talk tomorrow for @TriDroid at @smashingboxes. meetup.com/TriDroid/events/2…
“I didn’t want to show you guys the weak LFSR implementation, but if you check Wikipedia, whoops there it is!” youtu.be/QJyxUvMGLr0?t=951
New business cards in. Other devs jealous. Sharpie for scale (banana unavailable). Bigger than I thought. h/t: @MOO
And I don’t feel too bad because this issue has been outstanding since *2011*. jira.spring.io/browse/GRADLE…







