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Controlling an app with your eyes

Google released the Vision API a few days ago as part of Play Services, and it’s available for everyone right now. I gave it a shot and…
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Adrian Otero VilaAug 27, 2015

If the ship is sinking, take care of it first

[Note: this article has been updated because I was using a terrible code example and I might have not been clear on some things. I hope the…
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Adrian Otero VilaAug 24, 2015
Play Store Filtering

Play Store Filtering

Have you ever wondered how the Play Store filters apps to know which ones are compatible with your device and which ones are not?
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Adrian Otero VilaAug 5, 2015
Updating rates and permissions

Updating rates and permissions

If you have an app published in the Play Store and you’ve updated it a few times, you might be seeing that some of your users are still…
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Adrian Otero VilaJul 19, 2015
First steps with the Design Support Library

First steps with the Design Support Library

Google introduced Material Design almost a year ago and with it several spec documents. These are just ideas and developers need tools to…
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Adrian Otero VilaMay 31, 2015

How to change a MenuItem text color programmatically

Styling the action bar / toolbar is one of my worst nightmares. I still have a long way to go mastering this topic, but I’m pretty sure…
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Adrian Otero VilaMay 26, 2015
How Google is releasing a new version of Android every few weeks

How Google is releasing a new version of Android every few weeks

And why most of the users don’t even know it
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Adrian Otero VilaMar 3, 2015

Memory Leaks when using Handler

Despite having a garbage collector, you are not memory leak — free when programming for Android.
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Adrian Otero VilaFeb 24, 2015
Grid Layout with Header

Grid Layout with Header

The new GridLayoutManager allows you to show a RecyclerView as a grid. If you want to add a header, you’ll see that it will behave as a…
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Adrian Otero VilaFeb 19, 2015

2015: The Year of Android

Russell Ivanovic: On iOS we’re starting to see things like this on a daily basis: -Apps pulled after being approved.
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Adrian Otero VilaFeb 19, 2015
Trimet Services: open source library for Android

Trimet Services: open source library for Android

I just wanted to talk about an open source library I just pushed toGithub. Trimet Services is a really easy to use Android library to add…
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Adrian Otero VilaJul 23, 2014
What I’d love to see in Google Now

What I’d love to see in Google Now

Little by little, Google Now came from being a cool app to be the most important app to me. I use it every day, and now and then it still surprises me with things I was not expecting but make a lot of sense. Still, there is a lot of work to do here and a lot of room to improve it. These are some of my suggestions.
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Adrian Otero VilaJul 21, 2014

Pushbullet with Groovy

I’d forgotten, but about a month ago I implemented this simple Groovy script to send a notification using Pushbullet API.
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Adrian Otero VilaJul 21, 2014
Portland Bus

Portland Bus

Android development, I’m here to stay
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Adrian Otero VilaJul 21, 2014
First Lollipop numbers

First Lollipop numbers

It took a couple of months, but Lollipop is finally showing up in the official Android distribution numbers. A humble 1.6%.
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Adrian Otero VilaFeb 19, 2015
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