Category: Android

I’m a bit of a stickler for passing Context around methods rather than keeping a handle on the context in object fields and whatnot.  There are some obvious reasons, like being careful about memory leaks and whatnot.  I feel...

We’re working on an app that requires local data to be encrypted.  Till now, the solution has been using the username/password combo to be the ultimate source of the encryption key (I’ll spare you the process of going from u/p...

I haven’t been blogging much.  I suffer from what we’ve termed the “Great American Post Syndrome” (GAPS).  That is, every blog post needs to be the best piece of technical literature ever written, so you actually never post...

I will prep this post by saying the obvious to anybody who’s had to do it.  Offline operation with data syncing is difficult.  By order of difficulty, apps and data generally go like this: 1) Offline only.  No server...