Here’s a short, yet useful, post today. How can you have different “flavors”? For example, how can you release both a free and paid version of your app? It’s actually simple. Add The Base Plugin In both your project level and app level build.gradle files, add this line: apply plugin:’base’ This plugin allows gradle toContinue reading “Build in different “flavors” for your app”
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Creating a Bar Code Scanning App
Apps that use barcode scanners are really useful. It’s difficult to physically type in all the numbers of a UPC code (inevitably, I miss one). And, with all the free cloud databases available it’s super easy to pull the info you need after scanning the barcode. I created a simple app that uses a barcode scanner toContinue reading “Creating a Bar Code Scanning App”
Creating an Android Watch Face
Picking up from where we left off last week, today I’m going to walk through how I created a watch face to show data from the Sunshine phone app. So… DataItems are being sent from the phone using the Wearable DataApi. We need to retrieve those items on the watch. I accomplished this using a serviceContinue reading “Creating an Android Watch Face”
Android Wearable Watch Apps and Faces
The Android Wear APIs are pretty damn cool. That said, I’m still struggling with the usefulness of spending money for a watch with less functionality than a phone… When your phone is in your pocket and your watch is on your wrist. What’s the point??? In all seriousness- Google is usually ahead of the curve whenContinue reading “Android Wearable Watch Apps and Faces”
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