Nowadays, we find kiosk devices in more places than ever before. We use these at the train station, tourist information centers, shops, museums, hotels, post offices, and more. They usually provide an app giving useful information, the ability for communication, commerce, entertainment marketing or education. These are often equipped with a colorful touchscreen to facilitate user interaction.
We took part in the TechXLR8 conference and HackXLR8 Hackathon during London Tech Week 2017. This festival of technology was a great experience with many inspiring talks, interviews, and exhibitions. Too many to mention them all, but some of them were very impressive.
Multi-OS-Engine – MOE for short – is an open source framework, which enables to write iOS and Android application in Java. The most interesting thing is that created apps are compiled to native code and they use common code in Java. It’s saves a lot of time and it’s good idea for Android Developers, who want to have iOS app also. MOE was acquired by Intel in 2015. It’s got good community support and it develops fast. About a month ago new MOE version 1.3 was released. It brings a lot of changes. Unfortunately, existing tutorials hasn’t been updated yet, so we decide to write a series of tutorials, which show step by step, how to create simple MOE app.
Google I/O 2015 announced new Android M (Milkshake?) with new permissions system and a lot of optimization. There were also presented smarter apps, better wearables, Android Pay and a bunch of other changes...
Welcome to Part 2 of Making life easier with Android Annotations. This time we'll have a look on the ways of using Fragments along with AndroidAnnotations. Anyone who used Android fragments, know how painful it is to create them with arguments that needs to be passed to each instance (to set them to our wish).
