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The Radioactive Yak
Personal blog · blog.radioactiveyak.comprogramminghardware
The Radioactive Yak is a personal blog at blog.radioactiveyak.com about programming and hardware. Since 2007, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Strategies for Honeycomb and backwards [Android]”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for Android development posts, especially Reto Meier's notes on Honeycomb Fragments and storing a UUID in SharedPreferences. One commenter argues the 'not so bad' post understates the difficulty.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Strategies for Honeycomb and backwards [Android]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-09
What Hacker News says?
With all due respect to the developer who wrote this post, standalone apps are relatively easy - you start jumping into the rabbit hole when you start getting into server API integration and doing processing off the main thread (AsyncTask, IntentService, Service, unit tests lions tigers oh my), layouts that don't suck, and custom animations... Making an Android app look sexy/good is an art in itself that I am still…
Comment linking /
on “Developing Android Apps: it's really not so bad”Submitted Why your Android app doesn't need an exit button as a story · 87 points
HN discussionYep, by "revamped" I meant Fragments. From Reto Meier's blog: http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/2011/02/strategies-for-honeyc... Apparently the new Fragments API will be (is?) available on pre-Honeycomb devices as a static library, and I'm guessing there will be some compatibility with the 'legacy' Activity API in Honeycomb. Still I'm guessing there will be rough edges and unexpected incompatibilities, as there are bet…
Comment linking /2011/02/strategies-for-honeycomb-and-backwards.html
on “IOS vs. Android from the Trenches”Submitted My Failed Startup (or How I Nearly Become a 3D Animator) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIn his Android Pro-tips talk, Reto Meier (tech lead on the Android Developer Relations team) recommends generating a random UUID and saving it in your app's SharedPreferences. The Android BackupManager will backup SharedPreferences in the Google cloud. If the user restores their user profile from the BackupManager to a new phone, their UUID will be preserved. http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/2011/05/android-protips-wh…
Comment linking /2011/05/android-protips-where-to-download.html
on “SecureUDID Is An Open Source Solution To The Apple UDID Problem”- pg · 2007-02-19
Submitted The Google-Powered Business as a story · 5 points
HN discussion Submitted The Rise of the Tablet & the Innevitable Death of the Netbook as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond Mobiles: Android as a Universal Development Platform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Apps Indistinguishable from Magic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obligatory Post Speculating on Google+ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Attitude Towards Piracy of My Book as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Mobile: Invisible, connected devices with infinite screens as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Android Protips at I/O: The Session Video (and How I Presented It) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strategies for Honeycomb and backwards [Android] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Offshoring Your Development Team Means Buying a Boat as a story · 1 points
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