android Notifications Users can now add, reorder, dismiss reminders. Now how do we remind them of those reminders? With notifications! Design There are guidelines for when and how notifications should be used. There are many details about the structure of notifications: header area content area action
android Lists In this post, I will talk about Lists: how to display a list of items, handle interactions like swipe to dismiss, drag to reorder. ListView First I set out to display a hardcoded list. The guide about List View on Android Developers pages shows
android Pass data between activities To add a reminder, the user will click a button from the List activity — the activity that shows the current list of reminders. The List activity will open a Reminder setup activity that contains a text box, and in the future some affordance to
android Working with Firebase Realtime Database In the previous post, we set up authentication. Now that the user is authenticated, we can store and retrieve data from the database specific to that user. Modeling the data The Firebase Database documentation explains how to model data in a way that avoids
android Beginning Android – Authentication Now that the skeleton of the app is made and it is pushed to the Alpha channel, it is time to build real functionality. In the previous post, we discussed how to set up a new Android app, sign it and publish it to