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Android Material Design Best Practices in a Bottle

This post provides a compressed tl;dr of the Android Material Design guide with Android Devices in Mind. Raising Things We need to raise view elements, which is essentially giving a shadow and emphasis to elements. Make use of the elevation attribute. As a short guide: app bar: 2dp floating button: 6dp card: 2dp anything raised: […]

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Use Retrofit with a self-signed or unknown SSL certificate in Android

In this post I will highlight how to use Retrofit with a self-signed or unknown SSL certificate in Android First of all, this is hell in a cell. took me 8 hours to accomplish this from the point of a working Service/API Manager that uses the Retrofit Rest Client for android.   Android is Implicitly […]

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Set Up Tutorial for Android Development

Download the Android SDK Add android to your path Check available android platforms android list targets Start a Project android create project –target <target_id> –name <appName> target_id – is the target available in  android list targets Build the project ant debug you may need to install apache ant Compile? adb install bin/Package_Name-debug.apk Emulate (Need a […]