Currently in Android (as of Android 7.1.2), there is no out of the box option to get keyboard events. When we came across a scenario where this was needed, we had to come up with our own solution. Our Problem Our design included a main view with a ScrollView inside and some buttons below the […]
Category Archives: Android
Forcing Picasso to ignore cache and load from Network!
Picasso is a pretty cool image downloading and caching library for Android. Not only does it manage download and cache , it even allows you to manipulate the image by allowing basic transformations like rotate, resize, center, crop etc In one of our recent implementations we needed to purge the cache and reset the image […]
Reading values from the Dimens file!
One of our Android apps demanded an infinite carousel with images overlapping each other. Surprisingly enough there are not too many examples out there on how to do this! We used a ViewPager to create the carousel taking inspiration from https://github.com/mrleolink/SimpleInfiniteCarousel. We had to make some changes here( another post on our carousel and maybe […]
Quick pointers for architecting Real Time Apps for Mobiles!
We have been working on multiple real time display apps for iOS and Android which represent real time data coming from various equipment installations (you understand we can’t give details here:-)). When recently asked by an ex-colleague to list out a few points to keep in mind while architecting such apps for Mobile devices […]