Posts by Jarrod Lilkendey

Randomness is required in a wide variety of different Android applications. For example, if you wanted your Android app to roll a die, flip a coin, or draw a card from a shuffled deck of cards, you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3zqxVoIUig All of the code samples in this post are available on GitHub. Code Samples Project Level Build.Gradle File App Level Build.Gradle...

As a part of the series for creating apps from scratch, I have put together a tutorial on how to build a BMI calculator app for Android. In this tutorial, we will build a BMI calculator app for...

Adding a gradient as a background color to your an Android app can add extra interest and style and provide a great user experience. In this post, I will walk you through the steps of how to add a...

There are a number of different speech to text APIs that exist today. I experiment with IBM's Watson Speech to Text service to see how easy it is to integrate with an Android app and the accuracy of...

I was playing around with a demo I found online that uses the Watson Text to Speech platform from IBM and I was really impressed with the quality of speech that was generated. Following that, I...