This post was published externally on Square Corner. Read it at https://developer.squareup.com/blog/the-resurrection-of-testing-for-android.

Stop using ActionBarSherlock! Well... eventually. If you are writing an application right now with a minSdkVersion lower than 14 you should be using it. I am not saying this just as the developer of the library, but as someone who likes to minimize wasted time. Writing applications is hard and nobod...

The blessed souls in the Android world with regard to compilation are Eclipse and ant. Both serve admirably if you have a small-to-medium-sized app. You might even pull in a library project and a jar or two. This works great. As the complexity grows beyond this, however, both of these players break ...

This post was published externally on Square Corner. Read it at https://developer.squareup.com/blog/decoupling-android-app-communication-with-otto.

This post was published externally on Square Corner. Read it at https://developer.squareup.com/blog/using-actionbarsherlock-as-a-base.

It's been approximately three months since the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich source code landed on the Android Open Source Projects's servers. Since then I have spent countless nights developing what I described in an earlier blog post as the "first true release" of ActionBarSherlock: version 4.0. ...

The lovely new animation framework in Android 3.0 came with some additional methods on the View class to allow for transformations such as translation, scale, rotation, and alpha. The NineOldAndroids library allows for the use of this API on any platform but is limited only to modifying values for w...

Some implementation details… There are 6 base activities, 4 of which are the core library and one in each of two plugins. Core: SherlockActivity, SherlockPreferenceActivity, SherlockListActivity, and SherlockExpandableListActivity - Former two should be obvious, latter two shouldn’t really be used a...

I am talking, of course, about version 3 and version 4, respectively. And I’m also lying a bit because I won’t just be abandoning the 3.x users either. I’ll give you a two-month deprecation window from version 4’s release. Because… ActionBarSherlock v4 is coming and it is awesome. Now I realize that...

Despite this, however, most users probably have never used the first or second versions, let alone the “lost” third version which was scrapped just hours from release. In future posts we’ll look forward to where version four will take us. For this post, however, we’ll be taking a quick look back at ...

The library has been out for nearly 9 months already and has seen 22 releases across 3 major versions. Fast approaching is the next major release, version 4.0. This will bring the full functionaity of Ice Cream Sandwich’s action bar to all relevant APIs and will be what I consider the first true rel...