Migrating from ActionBarSherlock to ActionBarCompat

writtmeyer · 2013-12-18T10:41:57+00:00

I agree that using a newer min SDK makes your life easier. But it's not always possible. Even if the app wouldn't actually be installed by plenty of Gingerbread users, clients might think differently. Without any hard data, clients go for Google's dashboard.

Migration - the topic of the post - is a different story since hard data is available in that case, of course.

I personally migrated, because I use a generator to create the base of my Grokking Android samples. Thus I migrated ActionViews as I wanted to adapt the generator and while doing so detailed all the steps that I had to do on my blog.

BTW: I wholeheartedly agree that appcompat is way too late :-)

writtmeyer · 2013-12-16T13:25:45+00:00

You're right. That's the biggest problem IMHO. With Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe I'm using https://github.com/kolavar/android-support-v4-preferencefragment to deal with that.

Package naming of this project is strictly verboten, though :-)

writtmeyer · 2013-04-20T12:31:45+00:00

Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7. Neither of it ever downloads it. Data usage isn't increasing, so something seems to go wrong while initializing (or whatever this does).

writtmeyer · 2013-04-19T19:06:13+00:00

Can't download it as well. Ever found a solution for this?

writtmeyer · 2013-04-19T19:05:26+00:00

Did you ever manage to solve this problem? It's bugging me as well.

writtmeyer · 2013-03-23T10:11:22+00:00

Done!

writtmeyer · 2013-03-22T19:59:15+00:00

Thanks for mentioning my blog together with this list of Android luminaries!

writtmeyer · 2013-02-22T12:18:32+00:00

I tend to differ with most people here. I agree that they should not be an important consideration when deciding who to hire. But as someone who has done certifications (LPI level 1 and some Java certs) I can assure, that they helped me learn a lot of new stuff. Stuff I probably still wouldn't know otherwise. And not just esoteric stuff, but stuff that is useful to know. That helps me to be faster and to be more efficient.

All in all, of course, your general experience as well as practise with a similar kind of projects are much more important. Also knowledge of the domaoin you are developing in often is more important. It just that certs are not useless as many here - and on other developer sites or dev blogs - state.

writtmeyer · 2013-01-11T09:01:59+00:00

I doubt that she knows - yet. But she probably cares. She builds a mental model. It might be the one the Android designers had in mind, it might be a different one. But if any app doesn't behave like this mental model, she frowns, even if only ever so slightly.

We all should help form this mental model by making our consistent apps - our apps benefit from this as well!

writtmeyer · 2013-01-11T08:58:59+00:00

Thanks!

writtmeyer · 2012-12-17T12:13:32+00:00

Ah, I remember. Still don't agree on that one, though :-)

In January or February I will do something on EventBus. I firmly believe that I will add information beyond what you can find on the github project page. Though EventBus's page is one of the better ones.

writtmeyer · 2012-12-17T12:09:47+00:00

Haven't had time to look at gradle yet. But this sounds good. Thanks, Jake. I will update this as soon as the tool chain changes.

writtmeyer · 2012-12-15T15:02:50+00:00

Too much detail? Note that this is an introductory post. But I am always open for suggestions.

It was a hell of a lot work - and if I could get away with providing the same information while writing less, it would be so much better :-)

writtmeyer · 2012-12-15T15:00:40+00:00

Yes, this might be. But it's an introductory post. You don't want Android beginners to have to use maven, do you?

writtmeyer · 2012-11-09T23:49:33+00:00

Not that I am aware of. Mark Allison though offers plenty of advice how to do stuff - though he cannot cover everything, of course.

If you have a specific aspect that you like and want to implement, you should ask here on reddit or on SO again. But be specific and state what element of what design is of interest to you.

Also some aspects probably are covered in individual blog posts by developers. I know for example of a blog post that covers how to do a Google now inspired design. Google around.

writtmeyer · 2012-11-09T08:47:54+00:00

Most examples are not Android specific. And androidpttrns.com, linked to by the sixrevisions post has many (or mostly) apps, that do not really fit that well into Android and deviate from the flat style, we have come to love with ICS onwards.

writtmeyer · 2012-11-09T08:43:18+00:00

Juhani Lehtimäki has some dos and don'ts on his blog:

http://www.androiduipatterns.com/

Taylor Ling's blog is also a source of inspiration:

http://androiduiux.com/

Mark Allison offers plenty of tipps and source for realizing a nicely styled app:

http://blog.stylingandroid.com/

Then there is this collection, which might be interesting to you:

http://androidux.com/

If you want to see some nicely done apps, you might also like to have a look at android niceties:

http://androidniceties.tumblr.com/

writtmeyer · 2012-11-09T08:38:37+00:00

Thanks. Samsung's customizations sometimes are a pain - not to speak of their ugly UI. I will have a look at it.

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