Google did an amazing job to promote material design. However there is not many articles about how to quickly style the custom dialog. So, we will cover some missing stuff here. Prerequisites Add material design dependency in Gradle file: implementation "com.google.android.material:material:<latest-version>" Make sure your AppTheme inherited from a material theme like:...
Room provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow fluent database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite. Because Room takes care of several concerns for you, e.g. caching, networking, Android highly recommend using Room instead of SQLite. If you are coming from iOS, the good news is that Room is very similar to the core data in iOS development. The task Field...
Multi-touch gestures are very useful in many common scenarios, such as zooming, panning. For game development, handling multi-touch is essential. This post will give a quick guide for handling multi-touch points. Project structure We create a new project name MultiTouch with Java and add a new class named GameScene as a subclass of android.view.View. The basic GameScene class is as follows...
Recently, I came across a company’s profile and found their Joel test. Basically, it is for a better quality of software team/company. So I decided to share it here in the simplified version. The great part about it is that it takes about 3-5 minutes compared to approx 6 years to understand SEMA. The Joel Test Joel test questions The neat thing about The Joel Test is that it’s easy to get a...
There is much confusion for beginners in machine learning. One of the frequently asked questions is the difference between predictor vs. estimator. Let get some note: Different usage “Prediction” and “estimation” indeed are sometimes used interchangeably in non-technical writing and they seem to function similarly, but there is a sharp distinction between them in the...