I recently released some new Android Devevelopment videos on the site, Caster.IO. Caster.IO is a site that has bite sized training vidoes for the Android platform. If you’re an Android developer, …
RxJava with AIDL Services
Most contrived Rx examples show you how to replace AsyncTask with Rx. Not many examples show how to abstract away complex async scenarios, such as oneway AIDL Bound Services. Using RxJava with AIDL …
Quick and Easy StateListDrawables in Android with ONE PNG
Update: This can now be accomplished with  DrawableCompat that is now available in the Support Library. Use the DrawableCompat#setTintList() method to accomplish the same thing as shown below. One …
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Why You Should Use a GIT SHA in Your Crash Reporting
A common problem developers encounter when developing applications that use a crash reporting tool like Crashlytics is determinig if a particular crash/bug has been fixed/addressed or not. For …
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Android Studio Espresso 2.0 ClassNotFoundException
File this under “I’m writing this so when I Google for it in 6 months, it pops up”.  I recently set up an existing Android project with Espresso 2.0 and immediately stared running into this error …
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Diff Before Commit
Last week I tweeted something that got some conversations going: One of the best habits you can get into before committing code is viewing all the changes in a diff tool. 9/10 times you forgot …