I use RecyclerView pretty often, but I still tend to forget how to write a custom Espresso matcher for tests that allows me to scroll and click item according to my custom criteria.

This is just a quick reminder for me, so that I can look it up here in case I forget.

The scenario here is the fol...

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Lock task mode allows you to lock your app to the screen, so that the user won't be able escape from the app by pressing buttons like back and home.

This feature can be especially useful when your implementing single purpose kiosk-like devices. The term Kiosk mode can also be used to describe...

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Android devices usually come with various pre-installed apps. Most of these can actually be helpful, but some are only using up your battery.

The preinstalled apps usually cannot be easily removed without rooting the device.

In this post I would like to show how to disable these apps without...

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I did an interview recently for downloadastro.com. I answered some questions related to my Bugjaeger app. You can find the text of the interview below. The original interview is published at
https://appoftheday.downloadastro.com/app/bugjaeger-mobile-adb-develop-debug-via-usb-otg/

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Although the usual Android apps have a graphic user interface and are installed to the device as an APK file, you still have the option to run native elf executables compiled for the architecture that your device supports (mostly arm).

There's a huge amount of tools and small Linux shell utilit...

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