Augmented android code snippets in StackOverflow

barbs 12 years ago |

Seems pretty useful! I've found this Chrome extension indispensable for Android development:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/android-sdk-search...

drorweiss 12 years ago | |

Whoa! this android-sdk-search thing is awesome!

jtanner 12 years ago |

Wow amazing! I need this for all other languages, if only for the mapping of Code -> Online API.

drorweiss 12 years ago | |

Other languages will come, as well as other sites (GitHub and others)

jaymzcampbell 12 years ago |

This is excellent! Thanks for this, it complements (replaces even) very nicely my usual means of learning a new API call - that is 'read relevant SO post; look up each main function call on developer docs; hunt down further clearer 'real world' examples".

Also if you are doing android development in general (anyone) I can't recommend the android-query (http://code.google.com/p/android-query/) library enough; it's saved lots of time and makes a lot of common tasks much easier.

drorweiss 12 years ago | |

Thanks - I'll have a look at androidquery.

myko 12 years ago | | |

AndroidQuery seems to lock the UI thread a bit at times. If you're just looking for a nice library to make net requests/load images I'd try Ion: https://github.com/koush/ion

Some other good libraries to check out are Volley, OkHttp, and Picasso. The latter 2 are maintained by Square (same folks who maintain ActionBar Sherlock) and they give great support in their G+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/109244258569782858265

jaymzcampbell 12 years ago | | |

I hadn't heard of Ion, it looks very nice; I'm going to check the others out too. I had a hard time finding something similar for iOS which is a shame - though maybe my Google-Fu is failing me.

myko 12 years ago | | |

AFNetworking is pretty spectacular on iOS. And RestKit (which uses AFNetworking) is nearly as nice as using Ion+Gson (steeper learning curve though, but great CoreData integration if you're into that).

jaymzcampbell 12 years ago | | |

Many thanks for the pointers

gilikg 12 years ago |

Will be useful come our Android version. Thanks!

drorweiss 12 years ago | |

Thanks!

stasix 12 years ago |

looks useful. Thanks!

drorweiss 12 years ago | |

Thanks! Feel free to try... we'd appreciate feedbacks