How to redirect raw stream to logcat?

Sometimes there is necessary to redirect lot of data, such as xml-file or something else, to logcat output.

Especially useful to see HTTP traffic of your interaction with RESTful server (obviously in debug-mode only). Let's try to wrap and re-direct Java-stream to Android Logcat!

Font-icon technique in Android. Critical issue!

This post oriented for those who already read and used font-icon drawables from previous post.

During testing our application we found big issue - on some devices font-icons were invisible in ActionBar. This issue threatens this solution to be deleted from our project.

Android Dashboards - December, 2

Android lost Gingerbread users as usual by 2% per month.

Detailed statistics and forecast for next month is available here.

Data originally captured from developer.android.com.

Naming convention for Android layout resources

Every time when I was creating new layout resource there was issue: how to name it?

How to use icon-fonts in Android

There is popular web-technique for creating awesome icons - generate font with custom glyphs and use single unicode character with specified typeface.

Look here for example and let’s try to use this technique in Android.

Android Dashboards - November, 1

Android Gingerbread lost again 2% of users. See detailed statistics and forecast to the next month in this public document. 

Data originally captured from developer.android.com.

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