Hoxe sábado ás 18 horas repetimos o laboratorio de Android “A Miña Primera Aplicación Android” na SobrosoParty no Pavillón Municipal de Ponteareas. Neste taller usaremos como exemplo a aplicación WikiPlaces para explicar cales son os pasos da creación dunha aplicación Android, dende a instalación do SDK e a configuración do Eclipse ata a súa . . . → Read More: SobrosoParty 2011
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A very cool feature of Android that many developers do not know (at least me 6 months ago) is the possibility of using “styles” on Android XML layouts. This thing is similar to CCS on HTML and provides a method to simplify the XML design. First, let’s see an example of a XML layout . . . → Read More: Using styles on Android layouts After two weeks since the Firefox 4 (FF4) release, I decided to switch back again to Firefox from Google’s Chrome. But I miss Chrome a lot, so I configured FF4 almost like a Chrome… ¿how? using those themes and plugins: FXChrome Theme: this theme claims to work only on Windows, but I’m using it . . . → Read More: My Firefox 4 setup At Mobialia the lasts weeks I was involved on the development of a social app using, among other social networks APIs, the facebook API. For me it was easier to implement Twitter API access using only the signpost library, for facebook they recommend to download their Android SDK, and I did so. First we . . . → Read More: A small problem with the facebook Android SDK Android has two kinds of accuracy on location: Fine: provided by the GPS, needs some time to be obtained Coarse: location determined with the cell of the mobile network This location methods can be enabled or disabled by the user on the preferences or with some widgets. Initially on our apps we used . . . → Read More: Using two location providers on Android This week I was speaking at LabAndroid, a spanish initiative about Android devices, apps and development. I developed a special app for this event called “Wikiplaces” and I made the code avaiable as open source on Google Code. This app shows on a map or on a list places from Wikipedia near your location. . . . → Read More: Mobialia at LabAndroid One of the most common errors that I found developing Android Apps is the “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Bitmap Size Exceeds VM Budget” error. I found this error frecuently on activities using lots of bitmaps after changing orientation: the Activity is destroyed, created again and the layouts are “inflated” from the XML consuming the VM memory avaiable . . . → Read More: Dealing with the “Bitmap Size Exceeds VM Budget” error One of the first things that you can notice after buying an Android phone is the great amount of mobile applications (apps) that you can download from the Android Market, but searching for a specific app can be very frustrating, and a time-consuming task. This is due to one of the biggest problems of . . . → Read More: Find Android apps with AppBrain I played many years with MythTV and XMBC, and now on our new home and after buying a TV, I finally decided to switch to XBMC. I will explain all my choices for those of you who want to build your own media center: HARDWARE Plasma TV 42″ Full HD Panasonic TX42S20: about 630 . . . → Read More: Media center and home cinema with XBMC As many of you know, this year I’m involved on Android with my project Mobialia. On February I was on the Android Developer Lab at Madrid and today I returned for the Google DevFest. The event started with Dave Burke presenting Google Technologies in general. Many jokes about the iPhone (to show the Chrome2Phone . . . → Read More: Google DevFest 2010 |
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