android development

Android Dev: Linting

In order to suppress linting warnings that do not make sense, one can use the @SuppressLint decorator. In order to know which warning string to use, here is a quick time. Thank you StackOverflow Tonys-MacBook-Air:tools tonytam$ pwd /Users/tonytam/Library/Android/sdk/tools Tonys-MacBook-Air:tools tonytam$ !. ./bin/lint –list | grep -i used “UnusedAttribute”: Attribute unused on older versions “UnsafeDynamicallyLoadedCode”: load […]

by Tony Tam

Debugging Android Auto As A Developer

In order to debug Android Auto cd ~/Library/Android/sdk ./platform-tools/adb forward tcp:5277 tcp:5277 ./extras/google/auto/desktop-head-unit On your phone/emulator, turn on debugging then in Android Auto Settings -> Start head unit server Reference: Setup for Android Autos – https://developer.android.com/training/cars/media Setup your testing environment – https://developer.android.com/training/cars/testing See Tony’s PR contribution to AntennaPod

by Tony Tam

Android SDK Documentation Offline Viewing

Having documentation right at your finger tips for Android SDK. Open it in your browser at file:///Users/tonytam/Library/Android/sdk/docs/index.html

by Tony Tam

Design and building Android wear app with my daughter

On Oct 5th, my co-worker Ollie R. and I were chatting during breakfast and he was showing me his Android Wear watch. When he told me that developing for wearable devices is pretty new and something worth getting into, I went to Amazon the next day and bought a refurbished 2014 Moto 360 for $112 […]

by Tony Tam

Small reasons why I enjoy developing for Android over iOS

I have developed a set of small apps that I have published to the Apple Store and Google Playstore. Recently I have been playing around with Android Wear and a refurbished 2014 Moto 360 watch and wrote a simple app on the watch to only focus on 3 todo’s a day, call ‘tri wear‘. The […]