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Samsung may drop Windows Mobile and switch to Android

Posted November 10th @ 11:36 pm by Boyan

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 [...]


Android: Simplified source code for parsing and working with XML data and web services in Android

Posted July 19th @ 10:05 pm by Boyan

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 [...]


Android: Reading, using and working with XML data and web services in Android

Posted July 19th @ 8:37 pm by Boyan

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 [...]


Android: Creating TableRow rows inside a TableLayout programatically

Posted July 1st @ 10:07 pm by Boyan

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 [...]


Android: Switching screens by dragging over the touch screen

Posted May 29th @ 12:17 am by Boyan

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 [...]


Android: Switching screens in an Activity with animations (using ViewFlipper)

Posted May 26th @ 11:48 pm by Boyan

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 [...]


Android: Reading Logs and Exceptions

Posted May 24th @ 11:21 pm by Boyan

While developing my Android apps I routinely, regularly, almost every time, without a miss, get some kind of exception. And the error you see on screen is not developer friendly, though it is very end-user friendly:

WTF? Why? What did I do wrong this time, again?


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