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Android Development Development Patterns

Dec 20, 2013

Hey Developers,
To take advantage of other apps on your user's device, you need to understand Android intents, but you also need to know which types of intents will actually work! Now there's finally a document that explains which intents will work for some of the most common user actions, such as "take a picture," "view a map," "pick a phone number," and more. Check it out!

Common Intents

developer.android.com

Shai Ayal: It seems a lot of developers are unaware of this mechanism which allows access to many functions without the application requiring permissions! E.g. you can pick a contact or take a picture or send an email with no special permission by leveraging the permissions already granted to other installed applications. This lack of knowledge results in trivial apps requiring a frightening number of invasive and seemingly unrelated permissions, a familiar and annoying phenomenon in the app store.

Matt Wolfe: Too bad Google screws up there own intent mechanisms fr video and image capture. Android 4.2.2 on galaxy nexus camera won't save if you rotate, android 4.3 camera doesn't pass the URI back if you don't tell it where to save, however sending the location breaks on most all other devices. I love the concept of applications utilizing other apps but it's upsetting when they don't do it reliably or consistently.

Matt Wolfe: Especially when Google does it and doesn't provide updates that fix the issue.

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Dec 8, 2013

There are all kinds of things that make Russell amazing on the field, but he's also an amazing guy off the field. This is a touching story.

And where can I get one of those Seahawks wallets?!

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Nov 10, 2013

Awesome! I just discovered the scrub bar on the lock screen: long-press on any playback button.

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Android Development General Discussion

May 18, 2013

Hey Android devs,
I want to point out a neat feature now on developer.android.com that improves search/navigation. If you haven't already noticed, typing in the search box now reveals suggestions for design docs, training classes, API guides, etc. But there's also an easier way to begin searching: hit the slash button /. The escape key also close search.

I've found this very useful when I'm deep in a doc and want to switch to another one I know of. I simply hit /, type a word to reveal the document I know of, then I'm there.

Hat tip to +David Chandler for the / shortcut idea.