Several weeks ago, I had to implement a geo-fencing functionality in one of the projects on which I was currently working on. Due to the fact that I had never done that before, I had to do a ‘small’ research on the topic. Of course, tools like Google, Stackoverflow, the Android Documentation, etc. were there to help me. Happily, I managed to inform myself on the topic, but there was a small detail....

Although, this small trick is not specifically related to the Android SDK, it is still a useful one. The ROI (Return On Investment and by investment I mean time) of overriding the toString() method of your POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) is relatively high. At the end of the day, this small thing can make your developer life just a little bit better. How to override the toString() method? There are two different ways for overriding this method (and any other method as well) - manually or automatically....

As I wrote in one of my first posts, we use Tabs a lot in our applications. They provide a great way of navigating to different screens through our app. And in order to use tabs, we have to work with something call a ViewPager. According to the official documentation, this is a layout manager that allows us to flip left and right through pages of data. These pages of data are usually composed of Fragments....

Banana, blueberries, cherry, coffee, cream. These are all great ice cream flavors! Especially the first two! But because of the cold weather outside, we are not going to talk about ice cream. Instead, we will talk about one of the great features of the Android Gradle plugin called Flavors. What are Flavors? The idea behind that feature is relatively simple. It provides version customization possibilities. In other words, we can provide different version of the same application with some minor differences....

Working with Gradle through Android Studio is fairly easy and pleasant thing. But sometimes, you will need to build your projects on a machine without Android Studio. Gradle can be really helpful during that process and can automatically download any missing SDK packages as long as the accepted license agreement for them is in place. If it is missing, then you will have a problem. How to find the license agreement?...