AnDevCon 2014: "Building Custom Camera Applications"

I gave my first AnDevCon presentation this morning at AnDevCon Boston: "Building a Custom Camera Application." I again want to thank everyone who came to my session. I had a great time talking to you guys. There were a loose ends I wanted to tie up from the end of my session (including posting of my code and some follow-up answers I promised).

Development, AndroidHuyen Tue DaoMay 30, 2014Randomly Typingandevcon, android, camera

MATCH_PARENT vs FILL_PARENT: What Not to Do and What to Do

In this post I am discussing the layout mode MATCH_PARENT/FILL_PARENT as well as touching on how it works and what to do and not do with it.

Here's the short of it: unless you are compiling against Froyo (API 8), please stop using FILL_PARENT to specify layout_width and layout_height. Use MATCH_PARENT. They have the same integer value, but FILL_PARENT is deprecated and the name itself is misleading. Please, use MATCH_PARENT.