Over a year ago the support library development team decided to split the monolithic support-v4 library up into several sub-libraries. This update, in version 24.2.0, meant that an app no longer needed to depend on the entire support-v4 library and could instead depend on only those sub libraries that it needed.

Until now I have yet to implement this update on any of my work or personal projects. This week as part of a general dependency audit, we decided to split up our support-v4 dependencies.

Continue reading “Exploring the Spilt in the support-v4 Library” →

Here’s another post on Stable|Kernel about using Fragments in a standard Navigation Drawer. Read it in full here.

Here is another post at Stable|Kernel. This time I’m writing about using live templates to solve some repetitive tasks when writing tests. Check it out here.

Here is another blog post I wrote at Stable|Kernel. It’s about using custom views as menu items in the toolbar. Check it out here.

Another quick post over at Stable Kernel’s blog about checking for network connectivity before firing of a web request. Read more here and feel free to comment.