The Radioactive Yak

Note: These days I'm posting most of my blog-type content over on my Medium page . If you're interested in the things I'm sayi...

One of the biggest challenges in creating training material is capturing, and holding, people's attention. We also want to appeal ...

It's a question I've heard a lot, and there's lots of good answers: Check out the Android developer Site is the most common an...

This year at Google I/O, I had the opportunity to present two sessions: Android Protips 3: Making Apps Work Like Magic and What's New i...

I'm a white middle-class male working in the tech industry in the Silicon Valley, so it should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone...

Every week The Friday App Clinic takes a critical look at a selection of apps in a particular category. Our focus on is to help developers...

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." –  Arthur C. Clarke Imagine yourself from 1990 transporte...

Once again the 1,300-seat main Android session room at Google I/O was consistently jam-packed, with attendees sitting on the floor and lini...

Professional Android 4 Application Development , started shipping today (Monday) from Amazon US - so those of you who pre-ordered should be...

tl;dr:  Read the new Android Training Class,  Transferring Data Without Draining the Battery , to learn how to potentially halve the batter...

2011 was a big year for me. I moved from London to the Bay Area, got promoted, wrote Professional Android 4 Application Development , and h...

I've been really impressed with the work +Trey Ratcliff  has been sharing on Google+, which led to me wondering if  HDR  might be a...

A distinct melancholy accompanies me as I sort through the images and artifacts of my youth. My wife and I left Australia almost 7 yea...

I love product launches. It's the perfect time to speculate with no inconvenient research or history to get in the way. This goes for ...