Sriram Ramasubramanian

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June 12, 2013

Android’s ActionProviders are a really nice feature. They provide a nice way to show an alternative or a secondary context …

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Ellip…sis

June 6, 2013

In the dub-dub-dub browser world, there’s a lot of need for the dot-dot-dot. The pages titles are exponentially long, to …

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Color Drawable

May 30, 2013

Sometimes apps would need creating ColorDrawable in Java instead of using an XML. Usually, these colors are specified in colors.xml. …

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View Reduction

March 25, 2013

“So! Many! Views!” — that’s exactly what I felt when we started the process of optimizing Firefox for Android. Compound …

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Overdraw

February 20, 2013

A couple of months back Romain Guy had posted a blog on performance of an Android app. Of the many …

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Nebula 7

January 30, 2013

I’ve been playing with Nexus 7 for few days now. I know it’s one of the strange devices with tvdpi …

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Compound Drawables

January 15, 2013

Many a times we tend to add an image to a text for a Button. The pictorial representation of an …

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Shaders

December 21, 2012

Lightweight themes are basically images aligned to the top-right corner of the desktop window. When we applied the same to …

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Runtime Theme Change

December 6, 2012

It’s a known fact in Android that themes cannot be changed during runtime. If the new theme change has to …

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Custom Fonts

November 29, 2012

A general myth in Android is that it has only one font, as opposed to iOS’s 50+ fonts. It’s not …

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