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Aug 25, 2019
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Nadia Idris
This article is a pragmatic guide for developers and designers who want to learn how to build responsive web
applications
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Jul 21, 2018
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Nadia Idris
In this article, I am going to do a deep dive into Android screen density and
provide some guidance on how to design for such a huge diversity of screen densities.
Having a firm grasp of this is critical in being able to create wireframes and designs
in Sketch that can be implemented on actual devices (phones, tablets, laptops, TVs,
wearables).
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Dec 2, 2017
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Nazmul Idris
As of Android API level 27, there are too many ways to load custom fonts
in Android apps. This article will show you how to use downloadable fonts (from
Google Fonts) using the latest support library. 🖋
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Nov 15, 2017
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Nadia Idris
The goal of this series of articles is to help you to learn Flexbox in a
fun interactive way and then help you to build simple real life examples
using Flexbox 📦
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Nov 14, 2017
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Nadia Idris
This is a second article on 2 part series. In this article you will learn
how to build a simple example responsive navigation design using Flexbox and media
queries. 📦
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May 25, 2017
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Nazmul Idris
This tutorial is a deep dive in the use of Redux in React Native projects.
It will show you how to architect apps that rely on external web services,
and Firebase. The code for this tutorial is on GitHub.
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Apr 28, 2017
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Nazmul Idris
Design engineering is becoming a thing. Airbnb has created something amazing
- react-sketchapp. This library can generate Sketch artifacts using Javascript and
React as a starting point. This article will show you what it is, who this is for,
and why it matters.
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Apr 26, 2017
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Nazmul Idris
This tutorial is a deep dive of Flexbox layout and FlatList. It will show
you how to take a wireframe and compose React Native components out of it. The code
for this tutorial is on GitHub.
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Apr 14, 2017
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Nazmul Idris
This tutorial is a deep dive of React Navigation, which is the way to do
in app navigation. It also goes into the best practices for styling your app and
how to collaborate with designers for styling. The code for this tutorial is in
GitHub.
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Mar 31, 2017
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Nazmul Idris
This tutorial will show you how to get started quickly with React Native
for mobile app development on Android and iOS. It focuses on Flexbox layouts, Navigation,
and cross platform considerations. The code for this tutorials is in GitHub.
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Jan 27, 2017
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Nazmul Idris
Redux and React are things that are normally associated with web development.
Redux is a beautiful design pattern that can help with any application, even native
ones! I used Firebase in order to do cross platform data synchronization across
web and mobile clients. I also used Firebase auth and Material Design to craft a
real-world app. The code for this tutorial is in GitHub.
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Oct 6, 2016
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Nazmul Idris
The purpose of this tutorial is to serve as a starting point for a real world
React, Redux, and Firebase example. The starter project is on GitHub.
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Oct 2, 2016
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Nazmul Idris
The purpose of this tutorial is to serve as a starting point for a real world
React and Firebase example. The starter project is on GitHub.
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Oct 12, 2010
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Nazmul Idris
Android applications run in a native Linux process, in the underlying Linux
OS. This process houses activities (screens), widgets, and services (non visual
long running application parts). When working with Android apps, it is important
to remember to keep long running code running in threads that are not tied to the
main thread or event dispatch thread, in order to get an “application not responding”
error. A common mistake that is made is long running tasks are performed in this
EDT/main thread, and this leads to lots of application failures.
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Feb 2, 2008
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Nazmul Idris
This tutorial will show you how to use SwingX's JXBusyLabel component to
display an indeterminate progress indicator. It will also show you
advanced configuration options that allow you to create different and
interesting indeterminate progress indicators using the BusyPainter.
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Jan 28, 2008
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Nazmul Idris
This tutorial will walk you through the steps required to use JXTaskPane
and JXTaskPaneContainer in SwingX. You will learn how to change the default color
schemes of these components, and add components and actions to task panes.
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Dec 24, 2007
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Nazmul Idris
This tutorial will introduce you to the SwingX API and the concept of Painters.
It will give you an idea of the kinds of effects you can create with them as well,
with code examples.
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Nov 9, 2007
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Nazmul Idris
This tutorial outlines some of the interesting behaviors exhibited by SwingWorker
when running background tasks are canceled in flight
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Sep 24, 2007
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Nazmul Idris
I needed to perform animations in the app that I'm building for ScreamingToaster
desktop app framework using Java and Swing. I needed to build animations that show
a transition from one screen to another.
This is slightly different than creating custom, or modified components which perform
a function and have a set of graphical effects. I needed animations that would transition
my user interface from one "screen" to the next. The screens themselves could be
panels or components (part of the whole app, or the entire app itself). While I'd
been writing much of this code myself, to do these animations, it just got really
tedious and frustrating to add this level of complexity to my code, when all I needed
were some simple animations. I've been using the SwingX API and the TimingFramework
API to perform the animations and leverage the components, however, this last piece
was missing. And this last piece just got delivered by Chet Haase, as a part of
the binary deliverables with his (and Romain Guy's) great book - Filthy Rich Clients.
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Jun 10, 2007
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Nazmul Idris
I needed to perform animations in the desktop app framework that I'm building
for ScreamingToaster. I needed to build animations that move various
components around on the screen, and other animations that pop up components
on top of existing components, etc. After creating a few of these effects,
I realized that I was doing the same thing over and over again, which is why
I decided to write this tutorial to encapsulate this pattern, in the hopes
that I will help others doing the same thing.
