Is there any collaborative development site specifically having Android application developers collaborating?
I have looked into the GITHUB. But dint got anything usefull.
Any pointers will be helpfull.
Thanks,
Gamdroid
Each project has its own means of collaboration. Your best bet is to find a project you want to work on, visit its irc channel or join its mailing lists, and engage its community.
Even when you work with others on open source projects, you still do the majority of the work on your own. Usually collaboration only goes as far as submitting patches to the project managers.
If you're looking for a place to get help in real-time, you might try Stackoverflow chat or #android-dev on freenode irc.
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I'm a self-taught software developer I have worked with several tech companies for more than 6 years.
Currently, I work as a senior android developer in a company which I'm responsible for the mobile development department, I have delivered apps for customers that my managers are satisfied with.
I see myself as a senior and highly skilled as my co-workers and managers say.
Recently I started looking for new opportunities in bigger companies I had many interviews and always pass screening, cultural and behavioural interviews, but I got rejected many times in coding challenges because of the following:
1- No clean architecture.
2- There are logics in the UI
The first rejection I read a lot about clean code and architecture and tried to implement what I learned in the next interviews I got, but unfortunately, I keep getting the same feedback.
Maybe the resources I read are not good enough for nowadays approach.
Any advice to improve myself would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
I want to build a custom ROM to a device (with AOSP) and need to know what I need to ask the vendors for. Do providers usually make drivers available in the format Google does? Anyone know what I need to ask for?
I have already spent a lot of time looking for answers here, at the xda-developers page, at the official AOSP page and all over the web, reading and watching videos. There's always something I don't understand. I would be very thankful if someone could help me on this one! I do not have any experience, yet, with embedded systems.
Thanks!
I was wondering if anyone in the stackoverflow community could point out some cloud based testing tools for android. I would like to be able to test my applications on real devices that I dont have access to and get the full logcat and other data associated with testing. I know there are a lot out there but I would like to hear other peoples experiences with them before I go spending any time or money on trying them out. A quick google search brings up testdroid.com but I have heard of countless others that I couldnt find in the top couple of pages.
Any comments on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
Have a look to this website : http://testdroid.com/
Never built an app before.
Downloaded & installed SDK & Eclipse.
For my 'learning experience' I would like to build an app for my Galaxy S II (4.0.4) that will take me to a web site and then log me in, eg: my Gmail Account or my Voip.ms Account
Can someone point me to a tutorial or suggest how I should start such an app?
Is this too complicated to begin with?
Personally, I think this is way too complicated to start as a learner. You may end up spending a lot more time in debugging some code which does not work because of some silly stuff rather than "learning" how to code Android.
I started with a simple app that has few screens, stores some info in local SQLite DB and sends some across to an remote SQL Server over internet. I managed to complete this in 2 weeks and got quite a good hold on Android basics. Now I am working on a much complex app and am not getting stuck in fundamental issues.
Developer.android.com offers some good app examples and tutorials and is the first go-to location when you want to see how to do something Android-related.
As for what you want to do, it will really depend on the website. Going to the website in question, searching for a developer section is the way to go.
There they will explain which API they offer to devs. OAuth + REST are widely adopted but there is no universal solution, it really depends on the website.
A final note : embedding a webpage in an Android app is a very bad idea from an user-experience perspective, Using an API to offer a native app will always result in a better experience.
has anyone ever read/skimmed through this book? it is valuable/very helpful to people such as myself, who are complete noobs to android programming? I am thinking of purchasing one on amazon for $20 but dont know if its going to be a really helpful book.
Also, when i skim through the book on the amazon wesite, it seems to be missing alot of stuff. is that just amazon's preview method or is the book really that simple?
The Amazon preview only shows specific excepts. I learned exclusively from online tutorials and the official documentation, but if you prefer to learn from a book, check out this SO question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1114287/good-book-for-beginning-android-development