Egor's Blog

One of the most popular Android ORM solutions out there, greenDAO, has recently been updated with a new exciting feature - the database encryption. greenDAO now supports SQLCipher - an open source SQLite extension, that provides transparent 256-bit AES encryption of database files. Data security is an important topic for... [Read More]

I’ve worked on a number of apps that are taking pictures for different use cases, and since it has always been a secondary feature for those apps, I’ve relied on using Intents, the approach described in Taking Photos Simply. Intents are powerful, they can save you lots of man-hours by... [Read More]

Recently I’ve been working on adding the Android M Runtime Permissions support to the project I’m on at the moment. As an Android user, I find runtime permissions awesome. Permission model was not very user-friendly before Marshmallow: every time you were trying to install an app, you were presented with... [Read More]

The RX libraries have gained great popularity among developers lately. RX solves asynchronous programming elegantly based on the Observer pattern. This is especially helpful on Android where lots of interactions are asynchronous to the UI. [Read More]

Android is constantly evolving, every year we get new cool features and new awesome APIs added to the SDK. But backwards compatibility has always been an issue. Here’s the Android versions distribution at the time of writing: [Read More]