A Custom Tabs Side Story

Mobile Dev Newbies Start Here If you’re new to mobile app development, I’d recommend starting with something a little less involved. I used this book to get started with Android development: Android Studio 3.4 Development Essentials – Kotlin Edition: Developing Android Apps Using Android Studio 3.4, Kotlin and Jetpack The Legend of the Bottom Toolbar […]

Retrieving the URL from Custom Tabs in Android

Check out the full series on Custom Tabs: Using Custom Chrome Tabs in your Android App Retrieving the URL from Custom Tabs in Android A Custom Tabs Side Story: The Legend of the Bottom Toolbar In my previous article I provided an overview of Custom Tabs, or Chrome Custom Tabs, in Android. In short, this […]

Using Custom Chrome Tabs in your Android App

Web Content in Android For the longest time, Android app developers had only two options when it came to accessing web content in their mobile applications. Use a third party app or implement a native Webview. Both of these solutions were imperfect and they forced developers to make sacrifices in the areas of performance or navigational […]

The Guide to Color Gradients in Android Studio

Adjusting the background color of your activities and fragments is one of the easiest ways to add flair to your mobile apps. A strong color palette can make a bad app okay and a good app great if applied with artistic tenderness. In this article, I’m going to explore one component of the tender artist’s […]

Saving Sensor Data to Internal Storage in Android

If you read my previous article on accessing sensor data in your Android app, your also probably curious about how you can analyze that data outside of the app. Perhaps you want to look for patterns in the data or track historical changes in a third party app. Whatever your reason is, its clear that […]

No! The CubePro is NOT Obsolete!

Joseph Muller May 18 · 4 min read The CubePro Duo is a beast of a 3D printer — so much so that it almost didn’t fit in my Honda Civic. After some twisting, grunting, and heaving, I gently managed to settle the 94lb tank into the passenger seat and glide home where I was faced with the second challenge […]

Raspberry Pi Mediawiki Hitchhike

I have a scattered brain. So scattered that it’s essence seeps out into my every day life, into my actual organizational techniques, and before I know it, my notes are strewn across 3 small notebooks, a journal, several post-it notes, flashcards, hand drawn diagrams, and a whiteboard. Despite my attempts to herd my ideas and […]

Kaggle Pipeline Hitchhike

The more work I do, the more hikes I take. As I was doing some background Machine Learning research for my Sentiment Analysis hitchhike, I fell into the Kaggle rabbit hole. I started with the Titanic competition and then moved towards the Housing Price competition and before I knew it, I was concatenating detours so […]

Tensorflow Hitchhike

While I was working on an Android mobile application, I stumbled across the Android Developer’s Challenge. The focus of the challenge at the time (November 2019) was how on-device machine learning could help people get things done and even though my app was designed without machine learning features, I figured jamming some artificial intelligence into […]

Thinking Thought

Purpose is a logic driven concept, one that can only be grasped by an entity with the potential to understand nebulous abstractions like reason and meaning. In simple terms, purpose is the “why” behind the “what” and it deals with questions that exist outside the plane of physical material. Objects in and of themselves are […]