Category Archives: Android

AnDevCon Boston

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Kio

So excited to announce that I will be speaking at AnDevCon Boston this year!  I will be giving a lecture & workshop on programming accessible Android applications. I am really looking forward to sharing my knowledge, and learning from the other fabulous … Continue reading →

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SVG Rendering on Android

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Kio

Recently I was working on a project which required me to obtain an SVG image from an API endpoint and display the image in the Android application. SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphic, and is a way of describing an … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, UI | 4 Comments

I’m a Team Treehouse Success Story!

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Kio

I’m so excited to share that Team Treehouse has featured my personal journey to a career in Android development on their blog as a student success story!  You can read my full interview here. Ben Jakuben, one of my personal heroes … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Press | 3 Comments

Android Dependency Management: A Saga

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Kio

I’ve been having quite a time playing around with dependency management on Android.  I am following the typical Model-View-Controller design pattern, and I’ve got an internal library that I want to reference, which handles the Model and Controller aspects of my … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Dependency Management, Git, Gradle | 1 Comment

Jenkins, Robolectric, & Gradle

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Kio

          Recently I was working on a project to integrate Robolectric, a great Android unit testing framework which doesn’t require an emulator to run. I ran into a few ridiculous issues that I never found documented … Continue reading →

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App Release: Should I Buy It?

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Kio

I am thrilled to announce the release of my very first app in the Google Play Store “Should I Buy It?”! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiodev.shouldibuyit.app I started this app almost a year ago, right when I started learning Android development.  And let me … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Finance | 5 Comments

Google Glass App: Basic Pokedex

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Kio

In my previous post I mentioned I had the opportunity to speak at WWC Denver about Google Glass.  I wanted to write a quick app to demo at the presentation, and decided to write a very basic Pokedex app (because… … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Google Glass, Pokemon | 2 Comments

WWC Denver and Google Glass

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Kio

Last week I had the great opportunity of speaking about Google Glass at Women Who Code Denver.  If you haven’t heard of Women Who Code (WWC), it is a great organization where women from all areas of tech can come … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Google Glass, Speaking, WWC | 2 Comments

Installing Android L Preview on the Nexus 7 – Attempt 1

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Kio

Ever since Google released device images for the Android L Preview, I have been itching to install it on my own Nexus 7 device.  I finally had some downtime during my lunch hour yesterday, and I was SO EXCITED to … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, L Preview | 3 Comments

Google I/O 2014

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Kio

A few weeks ago I had the time of my life attending Google I/O 2014!  I basically was going a million miles an hour from the time the plane touched down at SFO, and it was awesome. I kicked off the … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Conferences, Google Glass | 2 Comments