Bought a new phone to develop for today, Samsung Galaxy J3, anybody had one before?

Looking for some resources to advance my android knowledge, I'm already an android developer but want to learn more I.e to become a lead etc

I miss parse 😔

Does anyone have any experience using Spotify web API to play 30-second previews in Android?

No better feeling than removing all the break points because you fixed the bug

With the U.K now set to leave the EU my emigration plans to Australia just advanced 10 years #willcodeforvisa

A couple of weeks ago I posted about me making my own reclaimed desk, after a long process of sanding and oiling constantly here is the finished product and I couldn't be happier

Sometimes I hate the limitations that being a mobile dev puts on your code, processor, memory, battery, signal and wifi limitations are all things that have to be worked round, however I couldn't imagine doing anything else and it's taught how to write concise and efficient code

Not sure if code massively over complicated or beautifully elegant

Boolean lifeComplete = true;

@dfox

Getting something working that you've been stuck on for two weeks, despite telling the client, your pm and your boss that there is a much easier and quicker way to do it that doesn't involve downloading over 1000 pngs and storing them as base64 strings to form a massive pdf, damn android and it's lack of native pdf viewing

this.sucks();

Having to google something before you rant/comment so you don't look like an idiot

The hardest decision in any devs day is what to name the variable

New "senior" mobile developer started the other day, doesn't know what core data is or the best way to implement a network call. I'll just leave that there to sink in for a second.

public void bowels(){

}

Today I had an app throw an out of memory exception, while trying to throw an out of memory exception

Desk build in progress, love the reclaimed wood look so thought I'd make my own!

I've always found commenting my code tedious, is it better to comment as I code or wait until its stable and then comment all in one go at the end?

"Windows has so many viruses because it's open source" - genuine comment from a "lead" developer