A quick post that may save you tons of time if your working on a website or HTML5 app that supports Android devices. The Android browser and its webview control have an annoying little bug with the text-overflow property. Lets look at an example: Everything should work great right?! Well not exactly, we all know
Super easy and super useful. We’re talking about RGBa color values in CSS. They give you the ability to create great designs without having to use images. Instead of specifying color values in hex we can use the RGB value and also specify an alpha channel value. An example of the RGBa syntax is as
Recently we were testing one of our Android apps on a Playbook and the BB10 Dev Alpha. We realized there were a few features we wanted to customize on these devices without forking our code base. Luckily we found a simple solution to check which platform our app is running on. Since the Playbook and
After a a recent experience with some major apps on the Android platform I was inspired to write another post. The issue we’re going to look at today is launching other activities from your app, and how there are some useful flags we can specify in our intents to give a more polished experience for our users. As an app developer
The Android platform provides a nice feature for app developers called themes. Themes allow developers to change the appearance of activities or the whole application easily. Developers can choose from themes like full-screen or no title bar, as well as ones that change the application from a dark to a light appearance. When Google introduced