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…
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Android Things with Raspberry Pi: Workshop Basics Part 2 (The Internet of Bling with the APA 102)
In the previous post, we talked about the basics of getting Android Things running on a device and connecting to it on a Pi. Now that it’s working, let’s do the traditional “Hello World” with some lights. We could use…
Adding Gradients to Android Graphs with MPAndroidChart and DecoView
Recently, we worked on a project that required us to add graphs with gradients to an Android application. Below is an example of one such graph that we needed to create: There are lots of examples online that show how…
Posted in analytics, Android, Data Science, Development, Mobile Tagged with: Android, DecoView, Gradients, MPAndroidChart, Shading, special effects
Interacting with the Android lifecycle in a Cordova Plugin
Anyone who’s attended one of my talks during the past year, knows that I love Mbientlab’s MetaWear boards. They’re great for prototyping wearables that offer rich APIs for Android and iOS. That said, when you’re prototyping a device, you may…
Posted in Android, Cordova, Development, Javascript, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: Android, Cordova, Javascript, Mobile