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Resource leaks are some of the most pernicious bugs in large Android applications, because they occur in poorly-defined situations and...

Jenkins is a great way to automate your builds. Setting it up can be a little tricky, so here are a bunch of lessons learned from setting...

LXC/LXD is a Virtual Machine-like (VM), yet lightweight, Linux container system. Each container has its own filesystem, process space and...

Building and maintaining a complex software system over time like Android (AOSP) can be a daunting task, especially when the system has...

This is a common paradigm in app development: I have a list of data objects representing, for example, recent shipments, and I want to...

First, Some History The Go programming language was first released by Google as an open source project in late 2009 as “an attempt to...

If you use Google’s Android Studio (AS) for development, you owe it to yourself to watch out this video from the developers during Google...

Trimble’s ThingMagic Sargas is an all-in-one embedded Linux UHF RFID reader that comes in a compact package with connectivity (Ethernet),...

A few weeks ago something unexpected happened: the SD card in my wife’s Android phone completely died, and she lost two month’s worth of...

While Android Studio provides a nice GUI for interacting with gradle, there are times when a command-line approach is more helpful. You...

One of the most common computer science problems deals with concurrency. Our example tells the story of what a programmer may go through...

This article was written by Jay Slater, one of our software engineers. In the interest of broadening my horizons and being a...

As businesses move to mobile solutions for their logistics and inventory processing, the need for fast and straightforward barcode...

What is AfW and what does it do? Android for Work (AfW) is a platform from Google that improves Android usability, security, and...

In our previous blog post called Implementing Kiosk Mode in Android: Part 3, we briefly explored the Device Owner concept that was...

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 In part 3 of our series on kiosk mode, we provided source code for our Set Device Owner app. This app allows you to...

I recently began to consider the implementation of a simple “back-end server” application to demonstrate some new features for SDG...

One of git’s main benefits is also one of its biggest challenges: its distributed nature. The same freedom to work on an independent copy...

Note: We asked our summer intern, Joel, to add a couple of features to our Barcode List Manager (Barliman) app for Android: In-app...

Introduction In the world of smartphones, iOS has been dominating in the workplace, at least in the United States. The most recent data...