Android Developer

Allow me to introduce EssentialsLoader. EssentialsLoader is my image loading (lazy loading) system that I’ve been using for sometime now. It’s part of the Essentials tools (along with EssentialsLogger) that I’ve created and decided to release publicly. So why did I create my own image loading system when there are others out there such as [...]

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So far we’ve talked about some theory and OOP design principles and making our request asynchronous. In this post we’re going to discuss what was going on inside of the AsyncTask to make the network request and parse the data. Much like most of my posts, I won’t be discussing how to make a network [...]

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What is the Command Pattern? Even if you don’t know what it is you’ve most likely implemented it before. It’s a pretty simple concept: you encapsulate a behavior that can be executed at a later time. Does that ring a bell? In Android, there are two very common types of command objects that are used: [...]

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Way back in my very first post I mentioned I would cover structuring http request calls. Not quite a year later and I’m finally getting around to writing the post. YaY! Down to business I see 3 basic parts to the request call: making it asynchronous, requesting the payload, and parsing the payload into a [...]

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Back in Part 4 of the series I mentioned that the Activity naturally functions like a controller and not a View. If you examine the hook methods (like onPause, onResume, etc) and how the Activity is created it becomes clear that the Activity isn’t a View. Views should be dumb. Controllers are smart and handle [...]

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