Let’s take a look at the different methods for scheduling tasks in Android and discuss the pros and cons of each so that you can determine when to use each tool before implementing an inappropriate one.
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Let’s take a look at the different methods for scheduling tasks in Android and discuss the pros and cons of each so that you can determine when to use each tool before implementing an inappropriate one.
It’s easy to get comfortable with boilerplate setup code, so much so that we gloss over the finer details. I’ve experienced this with LayoutInflater (which coverts an XML layout file into corresponding ViewGroups and Widgets) and the way it inflates Views inside Fragment’s onCreateView() method. Upon looking for clarification in Google documentation and discussion on the rest of the web, I noticed that many others were not only unsure of the specifics of LayoutInflater’s inflate() method, but were completely misusing it.
The release date for the long-awaited Apple Watch has not yet been announced, but the nerd herd here is hard at work learning how to program with WatchKit. We believe that the 4th beta of Xcode 6.2 is a rather stable version of what we should expect for the public release of iOS 8.2 and WatchKit early this year.