Ashish Bhatia
Troubleshoot the “Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1” error on Android Studio. Learn to debug and resolve missing AVD system images and emulator issues.Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1 You opened AVD Manager in Android Studio and tried to start an AVD, you got “Emulator:...
Ashish Bhatia
Explore the benefits of Circle CI over Travis CI for Android app testing. Learn about usability, speed, and pricing to optimize your continuous integration setup.Update: As of Mar 2022, I recommend everyone to use GitHub Actions I maintain a somewhat popular Android developer tool (...
Ashish Bhatia
Learn to avoid common fragment pitfalls on Android by using support library fragments, handling FragmentTransactions wisely, and saving Fragment state effectively. Don’t use platform fragments (android.app.Fragment), they have been deprecated and can trigger version-specific bugs. Use the support...
Ashish Bhatia
Learn how to properly handle Exif metadata in JPEG files to ensure correct image orientation using libraries like Picasso or Glide for seamless image rotation.A JPEG file can have Exif metadata which can provide the rotation/translation field information for a raw JPEG image. So, a...
Ashish Bhatia
Explore handling JavaScript exceptions in Android apps using Webview. Learn error encapsulation with try-catch for robust hybrid apps. Full code on GitHub.All languages have certain semantics for dealing with error cases. C deals with them by setting error codes. Java deals with them by throwing...
Ashish Bhatia
Learn how resumable uploads work and test them effectively. Get step-by-step guidance, sample code, and tips for handling network interruptions seamlessly.The core idea behind resumable upload is straightforward if you are uploading a big file, then you are going to encounter users in the network...
Ashish Bhatia
Optimize your Android app with smart strategies on API versions, app size reduction, network usage, and more. Enhance performance, even for low-resource devices.This is a long post. It covers several decisions like API version, distribution beyond play store, UI & network performance, and...
Ashish Bhatia
Discover the latest Android development best practices, including adopting Kotlin, AndroidX, RecyclerView, and more, to boost app performance and user experience.Highlights All android support library code is moving to the androidx namespace. No more android.support.v4 or android. support.v7...
Ashish Bhatia
Learn how to prevent janky frames and ANR in Android apps by optimizing UI thread tasks. Discover tools like dumpsys and method profiling to enhance app performance! Almost everyone developing an Android app has seen something like this in their device logs. :root {...
Ashish Bhatia
Discover essential Android Developer Options for debugging, including activity management and GPU profiling. Unlock hidden features to enhance app testing effortlessly.Android has a few good settings built right into the platform for debugging under a hidden “Developer Options” menu. You can turn...
Ashish Bhatia
Solve language setting issues on your device effortlessly with a simple ADB command. Quickly access Locale Picker to fix undecipherable foreign languages.A useful and handy command specially when you during experimentation, you are stuck because of a changing language settings to an undecipherable...