I’m writing about software engineering, mainly android developement, leadership and other random stuff. I’m co-host of TheContext Podcast and speaker at conferences. I love football and enjoy hiking.
I’m an Engineering Manager at OneFootball.
In this blog entry I would like to explain how to write an annotation processor. First, I am going to explain to you what annotation processing is, what you can do with that powerful tool and finally what you cannot do with it. In a second step we will implement a simple annotation processor step by step.
Continue...With FragmentArgs and ParcelablePlease I have already shown that Annotation Processor is really helpful to speedup development by reducing writing boilerplate code. Regarding Android I found one scenario where I find myself writing nearly the same code ever and ever again. I’m looking at you Adapter with your ViewHolders, layout inflating code and view types.
Continue...In my last blog post I have introduced FragmentArgs an Annotation Processor for Fragments that reduces writing boilerplate code. In this post I want to talk about a similar problem android developer face: Writing boilerplate code for Parcelable This post is part of a series of posts about useful annotation processors like FragmentArgs or AnnotatedAdapter
Continue...Developing for Android is sometimes painful. You have to write lot of code to do simple things like setting up a Fragment. Fortunately java supports a powerful tool: Annotation Processors This post is part of a series of posts about useful annotation processors like ParcelablePlease or AnnotatedAdapter The Problem with Fragments is that you have to set arguments (the parameters) for a fragment to make them work correctly.
Continue...SwipeBack for Android Activities does pretty the same as the android “back-button” does, but in a really intuitive way by using a swipe gesture The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was one of the first device without hardware buttons for “back”, “home” and “app switching (multitasking)” but used the androids navigation bar on screen (introduced in Android 4.
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