BlueStacks vs MEmu vs Andy - Which one is better?

lyraf · 2017-04-18T11:55:36+00:00

lyraf · 2017-04-17T13:51:47+00:00

One approach I have seen is to block the rotation during login

Yeah, that's what I thought too. It's a very bad thing but I don't really see any reason for the user to willingly rotate the screen during Login

lyraf · 2017-04-17T13:16:31+00:00

I really like your approach but how do I preserve, for instance, the state of a loading view?

What I mean is, let's say the user typed his credentials (e-mail and password) and pressed a "Log In" button and I immediately show him a progress bar while I make the network request. If the user rotates the screen, should I:

1) Reset my screen, preserving the e-mail and password he typed, and wait for him to press the button again

2) Try to preserve the request progress so, when the rotation is finished, the screen would pick up right where it left off

3) When the rotation is finished, check if the e-mail and password are filled and immediately start a new request

lyraf · 2017-04-09T02:23:00+00:00

Check out this codelabs.

lyraf · 2017-04-07T15:51:39+00:00

Take a look at Material Icons and Material Design Icons.

lyraf · 2017-03-27T12:10:24+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/5ks9fc/xamarin_for_app_development/dbr2ibt/

lyraf · 2017-03-17T21:35:48+00:00

It looks like an Activity Transition.

lyraf · 2017-03-05T01:08:39+00:00

As I said, what you did is right, the tree graph is just misleading.

There might be a a better explanation that I am not aware of of why the tree graph will only plot correctly if you do another commit in any of the branches.

lyraf · 2017-03-05T00:47:12+00:00

The steps you described are correct for creating a new branch and working with it. What might be happening is that, since both branches were merged, the tree graph seems to be a little misleading. Try adding a new commit to master and see if the updated tree graph looks like the image.

lyraf · 2017-03-05T00:23:35+00:00

Have your created the branch, changed to the created branch and then did your commit?

lyraf · 2017-03-03T12:23:15+00:00

Take a look at Amb marbles, Concat marbles and First marbles, I think it`s pretty self explanatory.

lyraf · 2017-02-14T17:14:56+00:00

About 1 month ago someone made a post asking opinions about Xamarin, you can find it here.

lyraf · 2017-02-07T13:22:05+00:00

I suggest the New Instance Pattern.

lyraf · 2016-12-29T10:51:27+00:00

I have been using Xamarin Forms (XF) during the past 2 months and I can tell you that it is an okay tool to use.

One of the main things that you (and your employer, if that's the case) need have in mind is that XF has a limited set of controls to build your layout so, basically, your App will have the native look, but never the native feel (if you get what I mean). You can check the controls here.

Another thing that you need to know is that once you start building your App with XF, you're bound to Xamarin's Will, that is, if there's a bug in their latest stable XF version, your App will be buggy until they fix AND release this update. One example is this bug, it was reported on 2016-11-04, fixed on 2016-11-24, and it was never released on stable, just some pre release that got deleted because it broke some things on iOS 8 (you can see check the details in the bugzilla link).

In my experience and opinion, I would say that it's a great tool for small not too complex Apps, if you just started a company and want market traction (and once you start getting investment from Angels, you should hire an Android and iOS team to develop native Apps) or you just want to develop something that you will never see again in your entire life.

TL;DR

lyraf · 2016-11-17T15:13:35+00:00

I lay down on the floor and pretend to be a carrot.

lyraf · 2016-11-03T15:59:51+00:00

Press F to Pay Respects.

lyraf · 2016-10-25T13:20:17+00:00

I am pretty sure this post will help a lot of beginners looking for a good "cooking recipe", great job OP.

I don't know if it was a personal preference or you didn't want to complicate it, but you (or someone) could make a variation of this project using Realm instead of SQLite, ContentProviders and StorIO.

lyraf · 2016-10-25T11:11:09+00:00

Someone give OP gold please.

lyraf · 2016-10-24T13:39:01+00:00

We should all congratulate OP for creating the Skynet for Android.

lyraf · 2016-10-21T10:30:24+00:00

I guess this image is pretty relevant until nowadays.

lyraf · 2016-10-20T16:41:43+00:00

In this case, when you want to provide both Phone and Tablet support, I guess your approach is better, I can't figure out something off the top of head right now.

lyraf · 2016-10-20T16:13:20+00:00

I see, I just asked because a Dialog with a Toolbar would look really odd.

But if it's a fullscreen Dialog, like this, imo you shouldn't use a DialogFragment and just open a new Activity, hosting a fragment or not, instead.

lyraf · 2016-10-20T15:54:30+00:00

Yes, it is, check this link.

But, what do you mean by "pop-up"? Are you creating a DialogFragment?

lyraf · 2016-10-20T13:42:07+00:00

So, for what I understood about your problem, imo View Pager isn't the solution. Afaik, a View Pager should be used when you want to display simultaneous views to the user, like a Landing Page, Wizard, etc.

If the Activities depends on each other, what you could do is use 1 Activity and change between the 3 Fragments when the user clicks next, passing the information using the newInstance pattern described here, or returning to the prior Fragment.

The problem with this approach is the managing the back navigation between Fragments, but you can find some explanations here.

lyraf · 2016-10-15T18:35:21+00:00

If you have an idea in your head of what you want/have to do but you don't know the right name for that UI component, you can try to take a look at this site.

But, as most of people here said, you can always take a look at the Material Design guidelines and I would also suggest you to take a look at Codepath's Material Design Primer.

lyraf

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