I released a new free IT-Books App for public available.

Recent night I published a new version of IT-Books.

The new version including more feelings of Google's material-design supports new API  to let us download books directly instead of a WebView or opening external browsers.

Use Retrofit as http-client which enhances ability to internet connections.

The new API is wrapper of a external SOAP into readable JSON, more info to new API can be found here.  The new version use this API that is hosted in GAE. Of cos you can check it out and fork to your own cloud. Because of it we discard using http://it-ebooks.info/, but thanks .

Also what new of this version is that the app save bookmarks in cloud what previous versions only for local. Users can keep they permanently, thanks to a Chinese backend here to simplify my works..

In order to get more info can be found in store.

Split a sub-project from it-books to support download books directly.

Download-list of IT-Books you search.

The API is still in sandbox.

Support feature to download a book directly and search books independently from http://it-ebooks.info/

Find project detail.

API update

I update API of TopFeeds and its SDK TopFeeds4J.  The example App in PlayStore is also updated. The new function is to bookmark news-entry and store on backend.

About API TopFeeds:
An API to collect daily IT news in Chinese from CSDN and oschina.net

I release next web API: Get top-feeds about IT news in Chinese language.

Just a smart idea to solve some questions of friends from valley who develop community application to Chinese market.

We don't discuss more and just doing. So it comes out.

Data-source are CSDN and OSCHINA which are two largest Chinese IT developer communities.

Fetch RSS from CSDN.

Use internal API of OSCHINA.

API: https://github.com/XinyueZ/top-feeds/blob/master/README.md

SDK inc. an example App from store:
https://github.com/XinyueZ/top-feeds/blob/master/README.md#sdk

(The sample application must being pended before Google allows it to be visible.)

Update tinyurl4j

Update tinyurl4j by using retrofit.

Deprecated old API method.

If I'm hiring people....

Nothing is interesting and nothing is boring.

I've some friends that come from valley , they are HRs or chef of tech in their company.  They told some stories about hiring people and tech me how to hire some right ones. They agree that just an interview brings nothing, a direct view on the GitHub might be best way to know how the developer think and work.

I know, it is difficult , but right! I agree as well.

A solution to scrolling-problem when the ScrollView mix with ScrollView or RecycleView or ListView etc.

Recently I face a problem , a classical problem that a ScrollView(parent-scrollview) contains some other scrollable objects(child-view) like ScrollView, ListView even a RecycleView.

The problem has two cases.

1. The height of child-view. There're some solutions to solve it. But I don't wanna it, because I need a fixed size of child-view, let me define 250-dp.

2. The child-view can't be scrolled when it's beenn contained inside parent-scrollview. There're many codes to eliminate this problem. But they do not work for me, because all the posts are cases like a parent-parent-scrollview contains child-view directly.

Ok My case is complex.

A parent-scrollview contains a ViewPager and each page has a fragment with RecycleView.  :)

The RecycleView can't be scrolled.



Solved: here.