In this post, we will continue to build on our prior work with Android menus by exploring what happens when the main menu reaches a certain size. We will be building on the basic app that we started developing in the prior two menu posts here and here. Size Matters When it comes to the [...]
This post is a bare bones introduction to styling your application menus with icons, either the stock Android icons or your own custom ones. We will be building on the code base that we started in our prior simple menu handling post, so refer there to get up to speed. Stock Android Icons The Android [...]
Android devices have something iPhones don’t – a handy “menu” button that can be used by applications to provide a context-sensitive menu. This can lead to better handling of real estate, as these applications now have a hardware interface with which to bring up additional options. This post is a bare bones introduction to how [...]
The Android SDK comes with a wide variety of tool that are intended to help developers create great Android applications. One of these tools is the hierarchy viewer, which allows you to drill down on your app’s layout and see the different pieces that comprise said layout. This post is a bare bones overview of [...]
Since I’ve been toying with Android development in the last few months, I’ve been focusing on the Android SDK side of things instead of fundamentals such as project set up, code cleanliness, and testing. This post starts rectifying that situation, and is a bare bones introduction to unit testing Java code using JUnit & Eclipse, [...]
Recently I came across NMock3, which improved upon NMock2 by providing for strongly-typed expectations on any mock objects you might create. I stumbled across this while reading this post comparing different mocking frameworks. In this same post however, one of the original contributors to NMock2 gave a compelling reason why he switched to Moq. This [...]
Our .NET development team has been in the process of upgrading our development machines, which has given us an opportunity to re-evaluate and standardize our tooling. Below are what we consider the essentials for effective and efficient .NET development. Two monitors – Obvious one. Visual Studio – Again, an obvious one. Launchy – Indispensable and [...]
Since my team started in with mocking about a year ago, we decided to go with NMock2 despite the magic strings. The mocking frameworks at the time looked pretty similar, and for our needs, the simplicity of NMock2 was a good fit. We have been re-evaluating our choice of tools as of late to ensure [...]
