Stéphane NICOLAS Apps

Fractal Explorer is a sample application to illustrate how to useRobospice for a non-network related background task. Here, we useda fractal as an example of a long running background task.Pinch, zoom and move inside a Mandelbrot fractal computed in anAndroid service...https://github.com/octo-online/robospiceRoboSpice has been designed to perform network requestsasynchronously. This app demonstrates it can also be used in"offline" mode for tasks not related to the network.

RoboDemo Sample is the sample application ofRoboDemo : an android library that allows to create Activitytutorials for complex UIs.You can find the library on GitHub :https://github.com/stephanenicolas/RoboDemoOverview--------There are some cases where application needs to provide morecomplex interactions that usuals, or new ones, not covered byAndroid UI Guidelines.RoboDemo eases creating showcases / explaining / demonstratingof such activities to users.It will display an overlay activity to illustrate the Activityunder showcase. The explanations consist of a serie ofpoints to click on and a text. The Activity under showcase isdimmed and the showcase highlights some transparent areawherethe user has to click.Creation of DemoActivity is straightforward, have a look at thesample to put in place RoboDemo in your own app :1. create a DemoActivity, using a custom DrawAdapter2. transmit widget positions and texts to display during showcaseto the DemoActivity from the Activity under showcase.RoboDemo will ease all those steps and you will just have a fewlines of code to add to your project.To learn more, visit* RoboDemo Starter Guide : https://github.com/stephanenicolas/RoboDemo/wiki/RoboDemo-Starter-Guide

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RoboSpice Motivations is a Demo appofRoboSpice.RoboSpice is an Open Source Android Library that easeswritingasynchronous network requests.GitHub repo : https://github.com/octo-online/robospiceRoboSpice motivations is an in-depth look at Androidfeaturesrelated to asynchronous background tasks execution. Thiswillexplain :* Why AsyncTasks are basically flawed* Why Loaders work well, and why they don't fit when it comestonetworking* The basics of RoboSpice capabilitiesThis app is largely inspired by various questions on Stack OverFlowand aims to be a pedagogical introduction to RoboSpice, abrand newway to write asynchronous network requests.