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Is Using Kotlin Today a Risky Move?

Posted on 07/31/2017 by Lance Gleason

Recently, a blog post entitled “The Case Against Kotlin” was published on Medium. The title could have been more descriptive, and I appreciate that it doesn’t tout Kotlin as rainbows and unicorns, but it did bring up a few points…

Posted in Android, Kotlin, Mobile Tagged with: Android, Kotlin, Polyglot

Android Things with Raspberry Pi: Workshop Basics Part 5 (Small Displays with the ssd1306)

Posted on 07/29/2017 by Lance Gleason

In our last post we looked at using the temperature sensor, but what if we want to display that data? We could display it on a attached hi resolution screen, but, what if we are using a SOM that doesn’t have…

Posted in Android, Android Things, Kotlin Tagged with: Android, Android Things, IOT

Purr Programming Shirt Part 4 — Adding Android Wear Support

Posted on 03/18/2016 by Lance Gleason

In the first three parts of this series we discussed how to create a wearable garment (in our case, a t-shirt) with LEDs, how to connect it to an Android device using MetaWear, and how to make it change colors…

Posted in Android, Android Wear, Development, Kotlin, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: Android, Android Wear, Kotlin, MetaWear, Wearables

Purr Programming Shirt Part 3 – Changing Colors Based On Twitter Notifications

Posted on 03/17/2016 by Lance Gleason

In the previous installment of this blog series, we talked about setting up a service to talk to the MetaWear board. In the app, we flash and change the colors of the LEDs on the t-shirt by sending broadcast intents…

Purr Programming Shirt Part 2 — Communicating with the MetaWear

Posted on 03/08/2016 by Lance Gleason

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about the hardware for our Purr Programming t-shirt and how we connected all of the components. Now let’s talk about the Android app that controls the shirt’s LEDs. Our app has the…

Posted in Android, Development, Kotlin, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: Android, Kotlin, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables