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Pull-to-Refresh for Android

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Pull-to-Refresh v1.2

26th January 2012 by Chris Banes

Hey everyone,

I’ve just tagged v1.2 of the Pull-to-Refresh library on GitHub. You may have noticed there was no v1.1 post, well that was because 1.1 was a small bugfix release. Version 1.2 though is a much bigger release. Read more…

Pull-to-Refresh v1.0

5th January 2012 by Chris Banes

Hey everyone,

I’ve just tagged v1.0 of the Pull-to-Refresh on the Github repository. This is the first stable release of the library and it’s now something I feel is ready for public consumption. Read more…

Android Bitmap Caching

28th December 2011 by Chris Banes

Hey everyone,

This blog post has come about through a conversation between me and Ander Webbs on Twitter, about the usage of Reference and LruCache classes for Bitmap caching in Android. Here I’ll explain how FriendCaster caches it’s Bitmaps, and more importantly manages it’s memory so it doesn’t cause any OOM‘s.
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