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[TUT] Front Camera Face Detection – explained

In Intermediate, Tutorial By blundell On 2014-09-132014-09-13

This tutorial explains everything needed to detect faces with the front facing camera on Android. It also wraps this all up into one class, so that you can do face detection in your activity with…

[TUT] Locally release an Android Library for JCenter or Maven Central inclusion

In Advanced, Tutorial By blundell On 2014-08-102014-12-04

This post will put you on the right path to releasing and Android library to bintray ( JCenter ) or maven.org ( MavenCentral ). It will show you how you can create a maven compatible…

[TUT] How to run Robolectric JUnit tests in Android Studio

In Reference, Request By blundell On 2014-08-10

After my blog post on describing an Android Gradle App with Robolectric JUnit tests. I follow up here with how to run these tests within your AndroidStudio. The outcome being faster feedback from your tests…

[TUT] Migrating to AdMob in Google Play Services from AdMob SDK jar

In Intermediate, Tutorial By blundell On 2014-08-022014-08-03

Google have announced AdMob will now be available from with the Google Play Services library. The issue being they are stopping delivering ads to the AdMob sdk jar from August 2014. I describe here some…

[TUT] Android Gradle App with Espresso Instrumentation tests

In Beginner, Tutorial By blundell On 2014-07-19

This tutorial will show you the skeleton of an Android application that uses the Gradle build system and runs Espresso Instrumentation tests on Android classes. This follows on from my tutorials about Robolectric JUnit tests…

Creating GIF images from your Android device

In Reference By blundell On 2014-07-13

Ever wanted to show an example of your Android app on a website but it only supports image upload. Or you want to tweet a gif of your latest app feature. Now you can! If…