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My experience with Android Market Licensing and LVL
This post describes my lessons learned with the Android Market Licensing service and the accompanying License Verification Library (LVL). I used it the first time for a completely new application,...
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Number of downloaded apps/installs of an android app
Online android market website gives more details on the number of downloads/installs of an app than the market on a device (phone)!Check for example 3D Light Racer Basic. On my Nexus One it says it has...
View ArticleLessons learned webservices project
At a recent project we used the following tools & frameworks:Java 6Spring 3.0Hibernate 3.2.7JMSJBoss ESB 4.5/5.1SOAP 1.1JAXBJAX-WSApache CXFMaven2Jetty 6.1Oracle 10gEclipse...
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Upgrade to iTunes 10.1.2.17 iOS 4.2.1 on Windows XP 64bit
Over a year ago I managed to get iTunes 9.x.y working on my Windows XP 64 bit machine.I had to try so many stuff, that I didn't really keep track of what I did :( The only things I wrote down...
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Horizontally sliding grid of images in Android
For my Android app I wanted a swipeable and horizontally slideable 3x3 grid of images. If there were more than 9 images, a swipe should show the next 3x3 grid. Another requirement was that all should...
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Android Bluetooth bugs on Galaxy S2
Just a quick post regarding Bluetooth on the Samsung Galaxy S II.Recently I've been creating an app that uses Bluetooth for sending data between devices (not FTP just strings). A pretty good...
View ArticleRecommended Android Market screenshot format
In the Android Developer Console you can upload the screenshots of your app (max 8 currently) in several sizes, like 320x480, 480x800, 480x854 and 1280x800.But it turns out that sometimes (always?) if...
View ArticleAndroid pro tips for advanced expert Android developers
Short summary of the Google I/O 2011 session "Android Protips: Advanced Topics for Expert Android App Developers". Full presentation can be found here.6:35: the parallel Activity pattern: based on SDK...
View ArticleAndroid project lessons learned
Quick post with some bullet points of lessons learned during my last Android project:To be able to keep strings in strings.xml apart, prefix them with the name of the Activity they belong to. So...
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Houston we got them: Android Mini Collectible Special Edition Summer 2011
1st: "Greentooth is a master of mind control technology.""One shake of his hand and you are under his command."2nd: "The Hidden Task waits in the shadows, always prepared to set things right.""The...
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Using dependency injection and annotations in Android for cleaner code
Interesting overview of possibilities for cleaner code using dependency injection and annotations by using the RoboGuice and/or Android Annotationsframeworks: Clean code in Android...
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Segmented Button Control in Android
For an Android project I did a little while back I needed a pair of so-called segmented buttons, as they are named in iOS (see for example the official iOS API for it).The idea is that when you select...
View ArticleAndroid UI Development: Tips, Tricks Techniques from Devoxx 2010 Summary
Quick summary of the most important/new tips from the Parleys talk Android UI Development: Tips, Tricks Techniques at Devoxx 2010. Now free for viewing.13:40: tool for tracking allocations in Android...
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Android invasion of the Mini Collectible - Series 02!
They are 16 in total, but sort of left out the doubles: Bernard, Hexcode, Cupcake, GD-927, Iceberg, Greeneon, ???, Blackbeard, Racer, Bluebot, Hexcode, Rupture, Noogler.
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Android Tablet project lessons learned
A little while ago I had the opportunity to work on a tablet-only app, running Android 3.1 or higher.The app consists of only one screen, on which everything can be done.Therefore the app basically...
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Summary of presentation with tips on creating visually appealing Android...
Interesting points from a presentation in which Eric Burke shares tips on creating visually appealing Android applications that scale to various screen sizes. The session focuses on custom views,...
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Why cancel-button now also first on Android?
Just wondering about this big time...Why is Android switching the standard buttons order for Android 4.0 and higher? See for example this screenshot, the cancel button is now the first button! I was...
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JBoss exception Transaction is not active:...
Sometimes you get this exception when using JBoss (5.1.0 and Seam 2.2 in my case):14:08:17,312 WARN [arjLoggerI18N] [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.TransactionReaper_18] - TransactionReaper::check...
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BlackBerry Playbook Tablet for Android porting
Houston, we got it in the mail: a free RIM Blackberry Playbook Tablet because I submitted on time an Android app to the BlackBerry App World. The Android app runs within the Playbook Android emulator...
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Lessons learned Seam 2.2 project
Quick post with some bullet points of lessons learned during my last (and first) Seam project: Seam 2.2Hibernate 3.3.1JEE 5EJB 3.0JSF 1.2Richfaces 3.3JBoss 5.1Drools 5SQLServer 2008MySql...
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