Droid-Fu is an open-source effort aiming to collect and bundle solutions to common concerns in the development of applications for the Google Android platform.
Droid-Fu is an open-source effort aiming to collect and bundle solutions to common concerns in the development of applications for the Google Android platform. Currently it mostly contains code which I pulled out of Qype's Android app, and which I believe may prove useful to other developers. This is very much a work-in-progress, and both content and APIs are still in flux. There is not much documentation (yet), and I intend to change that. For now, you may want to read all related articles on my weblog. You can also find me on Twitter.
There are no releases yet, we pretty much work directly with the sources. If you want to stay up-to-date, we suggest you check out the project sources, pull frequently, and compile your app against them.
What does it offer?
Droid-Fu offers both support classes meant to be used alongside existing Android code, as well as self-contained, ready-to-be-used components like new adapters and widgets.
The areas tackled by Droid-Fu include:
- application life-cycle helpers
- support classes for handling Intents and diagnostics
- better support for background tasks
- super-easy and robust HTTP messaging
- powerful caching of Objects, HTTP responses, and remote images
- custom adapters and views
I suggest you read this introductory article, and anything that follows.
