Android

TextureView survival guide

Hello. Straight to the point. You are here because you are either bored or want to finally get your project done. Either way, this article is not a how-to, but a collection of tips and rules related to TextureView. That will fix your problems though. (more…)

By Leff, ago
Android

Flutter: complete turnaround

Being an Android dev for about 4-5 years, I’ve got used to writing billions of adapters, factories and other .util stuff I don’t really need, since it’s just mandatory and tedious af. 10-something of April, 2018. Google announces Fuchsia OS. 10++-something of April, 2018. Google announces Flutter beta-2. That’s where it has got much more interesting. I always wanted to go for cross-platforming stuff, but I didn’t want to become proficient in JS like those Read more…

By Leff, ago
Android

Android TV undocumented SDK 22 permission crash

Recently during a development of our Android TV application we’be stumbled upon the problem that has crashed emulator with SDK>=22, writing on React Native 0.53. The problem was with the intent that started an app. It just crashed with an unknown to history of mankind error, android.settings.action.MANAGE_OVERLAY_PERMISSION. We could not find anything viable on the net, just few chinese websites which had the method we needed, but we really tried to make our app work Read more…

By Leff, ago