Have you ever wanted to boot your Macbook into Linux but don't want to risk attempting a dual boot install? I did. I didn't want to use a Live Boot system. I wanted a proper install. This is how I did it.

Last year Jake Wharton published an article titled Just Say mNo to Hungarian Notation and I published a blog post showing how to flag Hungarian Notation as an error in Android Studio. It caused a little bit of controversy.

Just to be clear, it was never my intention for it …

So it finally happened. The Netflix app shows in the Play Store as incompatible if your device is rooted. Sad to see you go Netflix. Uninstall. Unsubscribe.

Netflix joins a host of other apps that will not work on rooted devices. Apps such as Android Pay, various banking apps... I've …

Sorry for the radio silence recently. I've taken a position as a DevOps (my other hat) so have been immersed in the world of Jenkins, Puppet, etc. But my love for Android still exists. :)

Recently I saw a Twitter post about unit testing and it mentioned the phrase "100% reliable …

A recent app upgrade has caused me to think about something that Apple does on iTunes and Google doesn't on the Play store, namely showing the ratings for the latest version of an app.

So what caused me to think about this? I'll come back to that in a moment …

Hi everyone. Apologies for the radio silence. I've been a bit busy trying to get a new job - a feat that has been made trickier by the refusal of companies to offer any positions with remote working. So just a quickie today.

One thing that caused a "woah" moment for …

Welcome to my office. Come on in. Let me give you the guided tour.

As you can see, this is the door. Odd thing, isn't it. Most people aren't used to having them at work. I can close it when I need just that little bit of extra quietness and …

The Android intent system is great. I want to let the user select an image they have taken so I can do something with it? I want to get contact details of one of the user's contacts? I want to let the user send an email? I don't have to …

In this post I'm going to explore the world of the transform api, as suggested by Reddit user sahal2080 in this comment

This is the forth part of an undecided number of posts about creating a Gradle plugin for Android. Part one can be found here, Part two can be …

This is the third part of an undecided number of posts about creating a Gradle plugin for Android. Part one can be found here and Part two can be found here.

For those of you that are asking "Part 2? I've been on tenterhooks waiting for part 2 and you're …