Say hello to Cluster, a collection of helper classes and utility methods for Android. I find myself routinely writing code to do basic things from project to project. Cluster is meant to be an expansive library that minimizes how much utility code needs to be written for each project.

Every Android developer has to build his project on the command line at some point. Building with Ant is very basic: in a single command you can build your project, run it through Proguard, and sign it with the keystore of your choice.

A recent project I was working on required using a new feature added in KitKat (API 19): translucent status and navigation. Out of the box integration is easy, but if you need full bleed content or are looking for a way to blend the status bar and Action Bar together, the solution requires a few extra lines of code.