Creating a Movies App using Retrofit and Picasso - Part 2

07 Oct 2015

This post is part of my talk “Getting Started with Android Development” at DEvcon. We will be building a movie app that consumes a REST api using retrofit and displays images using Picasso. I see this project as a “Hello World” on steroids, so you don’t need any Android experience to complete it. However, I do recommend having some programming background using Java or another Object Oriented Programming language. In part one, we set up the project and a grid using a mock movie poster. This is part two where we will use Retrofit to consume a REST API and show real movies.

Creating a Movies App using Retrofit and Picasso - Part 1

06 Oct 2015

This post is part of my talk “Getting Started with Android Development” at DEvcon. We will be building a movie app that consumes a REST api using retrofit and displays images using Picasso. I see this project as a “Hello World” on steroids, so you don’t need any Android experience to complete it. However, I do recommend having some programming background using Java or another Object Oriented Programming language. This is part one where we will set up the project and a grid using a mock movie poster. In part two, we will bring in Retrofit and show real movie posters as well as detail information for each movie.

Adding a Toolbar and Navigation Drawer Across all Activities of an Android App

21 Jun 2015

Gone are the days of using the sucky actionbar. With the introduction of Android 5.0, the actionbar has been replaced by the toolbar. The Toolbar allows more customization and can be placed anywhere in the UI since it’s just a viewgroup. In order to use the toolbar as an actionbar, you must declare it in your xml and set it as the support action bar in the activity.

But what if you want the toolbar to be constant throughout your app without having to declare it in each one of your activities? In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up the toolbar for all your activities and as an added bonus, we will setup a navigation drawer as well.

Hello World!

It's been a long time coming.

20 Jun 2015

I’ve always wanted to have a blog. There have been so many times when I thought to myself, “If I had a blog, I would totally blog this.” But I felt like it would be very time consuming to keep up with it along with work, family, and education.

I think it’s time that I start sharing the little knowledge I have with the world. So starting this week, I will be posting any snippet of code that might be beneficial to other developers as well as Android tutorials to help others learn the framework.