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What should be the color of the Ripple, colorPrimary or colorAccent? (Material Design)

I have reading Material Design Guidelines but I don't know what should be the color of the Ripple if it isn't black (with alpha). For example, I have an app with colorPrimary = blue, and colorAccent = red. Actually I am using the colorAccent (with…
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namespace naming conventions

For those of you out there writing reusable components, what do you consider to be best practice if you're extending the functionality of the .NET framework? For example, I'm creating a Pop3 library at the moment as one doesn't exist in .NET. Do I…
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Best practice for keeping data in memory and database at same time on Android

We're designing an Android app that has a lot of data ("customers", "products", "orders"...), and we don't want to query SQLite every time we need some record. We want to avoid to query the database as most as we can, so we decided to keep certain…
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How can I disable Android Lollipop ripple's alpha value?

I have a ripple working with a custom color. However, the color is never fully opaque. According to the answers from What should be the color of the Ripple, colorPrimary or colorAccent? (Material Design) it always has an alpha of 40%. Looking at the…
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How to write testable code in Swift

So this question of mine all began when I started to do unit testing for a simple 2 line of postNotification and addObserver. From this similar question here you can see that to make it testable you need to add ~20 lines & part away from the common…
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When is it correct to create an extension method?

I have a piece of code like the following: public class ActivityHelper { public void SetDate(IList anActivityList) { foreach(Activity current in anActivityList) { current.Date = DateTime.Now; } …
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Can I package entire iOS app as a Framework?

I have an app implemented in native iOS (Swift). There is a web version of the app as well. A client wants to embed my app to its own app and suggested I use an iFrame and load the web version. I understand this is a tricky solution as Apple might…
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Pros and Cons of implementing functionality as functor

I'm having a discussion with a colleague about the API of a simple class that has only one public method. I initially went for: class CalculateSomething { public: void operator()(const SomeObject &obj) const; private: // ... } However, my…
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Code "internationalization"

I worked on different projects in different countries and remarked that sometimes the code became internationalized, like SetLargeurEtHauteur()                            (for SetWidthAndHeight, fr) Dim _ListaDeObiecte as List(Of Object)   (for…
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Creating a single SmartTV app for multiple platforms?

I want to develop a SmartTV application for the GoogleTV platform and i've been browsing trough the GoogleTV Guidelines (https://developers.google.com/tv/android/). However, i don't want GoogleTV to be my only platform. I also want the same app to…
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Pass by reference: Which is more readable/right?

I have the following class: public class Person { public String Name { get; set; } } I have a method that takes in Person and a String as parameters: public void ChangeName(Person p, String name) { p.Name = name; } Since Person was…
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Google Style Guide (Section Forward Decleration)

Preface The Google Style Guide includes a list of disadvantages of forward declaration Forward declarations can hide a dependency, allowing user code to skip necessary recompilation when headers change. A forward declaration may be broken by…
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What is the FDG for naming boolean properties?

What is the Framework Design Guideline for naming boolean properties? If there isn't one, then what's your recommendation? Let's say I have a User class, and I need a property that specifies if the user is enabled or not. These are the options I can…
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When do you violate SRP (Single Reponsibility Principle)?

SRP(PDF version; HTML version) states that There should never be more than one reason for a class to change When you take a look at Outlook, Calendar Event window, it has "Save and Close" button. So when the functionalities of either or both Save…
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Display error dialog (MessageBox) with Only "Close" or "Cancel" buttons?

I read in Windows Experience Guidelines: Error Messages that "OK" is an incorrect button to display on an error dialog. ...provide a Close button. Don't use OK for error messages, because this wording implies that problems are OK. So, how can I…
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