by Jim White | Mar 31, 2015 | Android, From The Field, Java, Mobile
Project Volta is the name given to features of Android 5 aimed at improving power usage on Android devices. Volta includes better tools for monitoring battery usage. I’ll be covering those tools in an upcoming post. It also includes a new API for scheduling...
by Jim White | May 24, 2014 | Android, From The Field, Java, Mobile
This is the last post in my series regarding Android thread communications. Parts 1 through 4 are linked in below. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In this series, I have so far outlined four different approaches for how Android non-user interface threads can communicate...
by Jim White | May 18, 2014 | Android, From The Field, Java, Mobile
In parts 1-3 of this series, I have explored three different means for an Android non-UI thread to communicate user interface updates to the UI thread. The links below are to the series posts. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 In this fourth installment, I want to show you how to...
by Jim White | May 11, 2014 | Android, From The Field, Java, Mobile
Continuing my series on Android non-UI thread-to-UI thread communications, this post covers use of the Handler Framework to facilitate the communications. See here for Part 1 and Part 2 of the series. Non-UI threads are not allowed to make updates to the UI. Trying...
by Jim White | May 7, 2014 | Android, From The Field, Java, Mobile
This is the second part of my series of blog posts on Android non-UI thread-to-UI thread communications. See here for the start of the series. As a refresher, this series of posts is about how non-UI threads can communicate back to the UI thread in an Android...
