Android

My First Android Library, Part I

What I learned from building a custom widget

Ronald Martin

5 minute read

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I built a software library recently. It’s a page indicator for mobile apps; the kind you’ve probably seen before with dots that change color to show what page you’re on. The one I made replicates Google’s latest iteration of this pattern with Material Design inspiration. It’s really rather cool looking, I think:

As you can see, each dot represents a page, where the white dot is the current page and the gray dots are the other pages.

Lessons Learned: Kotlin + Dagger2

7 minute read

Update 2016-10-05 This article has been updated to reflect some changes to tooling that fixes some of the problems mentioned below. Living Life on the “Edge” I’m currently building an Android app to remind me to take healthy breaks from starting at computer screens. For extra funsies, it’s built on the cutting edge of current fashionable Android technologies. Of particular note today, we have: MVP architecture using Dagger 2 for dependency injection, and Kotlin, the JVM language by JetBrains.