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The Big Nerd Ranch Guide to the Android Activity Lifecycle

... methods yourself.You override them in your activity subclasses, and Android calls them at the appropriate time. In this section, you are going to override lifecycle methods to eavesdrop on ... read more

Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

You need to know Java, the Android framework, the IDE, the architecture of a typical Android device and so on. For one book to guide you over so much territory is a difficult challenge. The Android ... read more

How to Add a Splash Screen to a React Native App (iOS and Android)

We’ll do that in the componentDidMount lifecycle hook ... highly influenced by this excellent guide by Big Nerd Ranch. It explains the why behind what we’re doing. First create a background_splash.xml ... read more

Meet the Devs – Qin Zhengquan

Speaking of my sources of learning, my favourite technical books to date, are iOS and Android programming from Big Nerd Ranch. They are seriously phenomenal ... The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a ... read more

Why is Facebook's app so much better lately? Ask Big Nerd Ranch

AllThingsD reports that Facebook has made a deal with the popular iOS dev camp Big Nerd Ranch to provide a weeklong ... but not exclusively), and about two-thirds of them have focused on Android ... read more

Android Programming: The Activity Lifecycle

The authors of Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Edition discuss the activity lifecycle, including logging the activity lifecycle, rotation, saving data across rotation, testing ... read more

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course ... visible and then releasing them. Android goes a bit beyond that with an ... read more

The Sun aims a storm right at Earth: expect aurorae tonight!

Around 04:00 UTC on Monday morning, January 23, 2012, the Sun let loose a pretty big flare and coronal mass ejection ... they are brilliant bright due to their magnetic activity. A huge blast of ... read more

Out and About: This week in arts and entertainment

Toddler and baby story time, 10:30-11:15 a.m.; STEM activity: "We Are Stardust," 2 p.m., Bitterroot Public Library, Hamilton. 363-1670. Nerd Alert ... 2-6 p.m.; "Android Devices", noon, registration ... read more

Voices that Matter iPhone: Aaron Hillegass and Joe Conway on the lifecycle of an iPhone app

Aaron Hillegass and Joe Conway of Big Nerd Ranch kicked off the Voices that Matter iPhone conference in Seattle this weekend with an overview keynote detailing the lifecycle of an iPhone ... to ... read more

The SingleFragmentActivity Pattern in Android & Kotlin

When I was in college, I did Android programming with a student-run group, as we were a small school in a town of 10,000 folks. It was a great start to working with Android programming, but these were ... read more

Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (2e)

The Big Nerd Ranch Guide to Android is back with a second edition and now covers ... beginning even if it does complicate things - I don't agree. Then we cover the activity lifecycle, debugging and ... read more