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).
Anyone who developed Android applications, knows how easy it is to end up with boilerplate code. Accessing resources, creating services, inflating layouts, instantiating fragments, running separate threads, registering click listeners, it all requires many lines of code.
How many times did you use your own application? I mean application that you designed and developed. Last weekend we had an opportunity to test one of our side projects – Trail Offroad (you can download from Google Play, iTunes). It’s Metrometer, inclinometer and GPX track recorder in one application dedicated to 4×4 enthusiasts. We started at 9:00 am on the parking lot in front of our office at Mostowa 11. Ready for everything :) we met captains of our expedition from Landstore.pl, AutomLand and GravityProject and 4 Land Rovers Discovery. The weather was cold but not rainy.
Before we begin. When creating mobile apps you have many decisions to make that will have strong influence on final project’s shape. One of them is choosing the right libraries. Currently, it is hard to imagine mobile app that doesn’t communicate with network services. Weather apps download weather forecasts from servers, sport & fitness apps store our training data, social apps let us communicate with other users – these are only few examples.
How to get list of products Magento SOAP API contains catalogProductList method for downloading list of products. Basically it returns ALL products at once. In production environment it could mean thousands of products returned in single API call. Mobile devices are not capable of handling such big response.