Android 3.0 Hardware Acceleration

[This post is by Romain Guy , who likes things on your screen to move fast. —Tim Bray] One of the biggest changes we made to Android for Hon... Read more »

Optimize your layouts

Writing user interface layouts for Android applications is easy, but it can sometimes be difficult to optimize them. Most often, heavy modif... Read more »

Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize with stubs

Sharing and reusing layouts is very easy with Android thanks to the <include /> tag, sometimes even too easy and you might end up wit... Read more »

Window Backgrounds & UI Speed

Some Android applications require to squeeze every bit of performance out of the UI toolkit and there are many ways to do so. In this articl... Read more »

Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize by merging

In the previous installment of Android Layout Tricks , I showed you how to use the <include /> tag in XML layout to reuse and share ... Read more »

Android Layout Tricks #2: Reusing layouts

Android comes with a wide variety of widgets , small visual construction blocks you can glue together to present the users with complex and ... Read more »

Android Layout Tricks #1

The Android UI toolkit offers several layout managers that are rather easy to use and, most of the time, you only need the basic features of... Read more »

Faster screen orientation change

Android is a mobile operating system meant to be run on a wide array of devices, with very different hardware configurations. Some devices, ... Read more »

Track memory allocations

Despite the impressive hardware of the first Android phones (T-Mobile G1 and ADP1) writing efficient mobile applications is not always strai... Read more »

Avoiding memory leaks

Android applications are, at least on the T-Mobile G1, limited to 16 MB of heap. It's both a lot of memory for a phone and yet very litt... Read more »

Why is my list black? An Android optimization

ListView is one of Android's most widely used widgets. It is rather easy to use, very flexible and incredibly powerful. ListView can a... Read more »