I’ve been neglecting the blog for a while.. sorry RSS subscribers.
I bought the HTC Magic 2 years ago when it first came out in Canada. That’s why most of my blog posts about Android development are from 2 years ago :).
I decided it was time to get the latest and greatest Android phone in Canada: [...]
I just found this article from reddit…
Samsung may drop Windows Mobile for Android
Apparently Samsung is going to stop using Windows Mobile on its cellphones and will concentrate on Android!! I have been a supporter of Android since its inception and stories like these bring tears of joy to my eyes.
Oh, and there’s something about Samsung [...]
In my previous post I linked to a terrific website (Working with XML on Android) which describes how you can read and parse XML documents in Android. The code supplied by that website used polymorphism to show 4 different methods for parsing the XML data. I vowed to simplify that and share the new source [...]
One of the most powerful aspects of any mobile application for a 3G phone is that it can connect to the Internet. By connecting to the Internet the application can offer much more value to the user since it becomes an interface for a web-based component, e.g. using Twitter’s API to create a Twitter application [...]
In my quest to create a “Taxman” Android application I ran into the following problem:
I want to ask the user to enter their yearly income, after which the screen will flip and their after-tax income will be displayed in a table format for all Canadian provinces. (And for the future: all US states). The problem [...]
In this post I will show you how to use the touch screen so that you can drag your finger across the screen, and it will switch the screen for you – “iPhone style”!
For this I will be implemented OnTouchListener and overrided the method OnTouch().
To start off, we need to create an Activity with two [...]
In this post I’ll show you how to add animations when trying to switch between screens. Usually when you switch between screens it’s a direct “poof” and the new screen appears in a very un-graceful way. The SDK offers a bunch of easy-to-use animations, and I’ll show you how to use them here.
I tried doing [...]
