Cindy Potvin » Android

I’ve been working with React Native lately, and I’ve come across a few unimplemented features I needed to add to the basic components. One of those components is the React Native Modal compon...

https://cindypotvin.com/how-to-close-a-react-native-modal-with-a-button/

As soon as you start doing long-running operations such as network calls or anything else that can take more than a few seconds in your Android application, you’ll come across one of the follow...

https://cindypotvin.com/fixing-the-networkonmainthread-exception-in-your-android-app-with-asynctask/

At the end of my last article, I left you hanging after describing activities, without telling you how to build a UI, so here we go. In the Android SDK, layouts are separate from the Java code th...

https://cindypotvin.com/how-to-get-started-with-android-development-layout-managers/

In a previous article, I wrote about how you can launch your first Android application from the samples provided with Android Studio. Now that you’ve had a chance to poke around a few samples, ...

https://cindypotvin.com/how-to-get-started-with-android-development-basic-structure/

Learning how to build a mobile application is a good project to improve your programming skills while learning to work in a different environment than the desktop or a web browser. You can get st...

https://cindypotvin.com/how-to-get-started-with-android-app-development/

I just published my first book on Leanpub last week. The book covers the best type of storage to use for various types of data : Saving files in the internal and external storage. Saving user pre...

https://cindypotvin.com/book-leanpub-android-storage/

When you start caching data to a local database from your Android application, sooner or later you’ll need to save images in that database too. For example, if you’re storing reports about ob...

https://cindypotvin.com/saving-an-image-in-a-sqlite-database-in-your-android-application/

In the Android SDK, an android.widget.Toast is a small message that pops up at the bottom of the screen to display an information. The toast will disappears by itself after a specified duration. ...

https://cindypotvin.com/toast-specific-duration-android/

Showing a list of items is a very common pattern in mobile application. This pattern comes up often when I make a tutorial: I often need to interact with data, but I don’t want to spend a lot o...

https://cindypotvin.com/display-a-string-list-in-an-android-listview/

One of my article was published by Tuts+ recently. It’s a beginner’s guide on how to localize the strings, dates and times of an Android application and it’s exclusive to the Tuts+ site. Ch...

https://cindypotvin.com/new-article-localizing-an-android-application/