How you can go wrong with the new Data Binding API

By Andrei Catinean in new api on

The last couple of days were full of excitement in the Android world as Google I/O [https://events.google.com/io2015/videos] took place. In no surprise, some of the rumours [http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/05/google-tracker-io-2015-edition-android-m-chromecast-2-and-lots-more/] came true and Android M was announced (with a possibility…

Smart background tasks with JobScheduler

By Andrei Catinean in android lollipop on

The new release of Android 5.0 provides developers over 5000 new APIs to play with. One of my favourite component that was relseased with the new SDK is JobScheduler [https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/job/JobScheduler.html]. Briefly: > JobScheduler API that lets you optimize battery life by…