The new Android build system is based in Gradle, an advanced build tool that simplifies build automation. I used Maven for many years and Gradle project structure is very similar, but Gradle configuration files are Groovy-based and much (much!) more…
Getting back to the old days where I used Emacs to code (ok, more than ten years ago), now I’m using a dark theme in Eclipse. Dark themes are less eye-stressing and now are becoming popular with editors like IntelliJ,…
HTML5 is a fantastic app framework, but there are many environments where you cannot rely on the features support of the browser (specially when dealing against Internet Explorer, old windows versions or environments where you cannot freely upgrade the browsers).…
Many people has problems with the Google TV Emulator because it hangs up booting at the Google TV logo. The problem is that it only works with specific device configurations and resolutions. First you need to install the “GoogleTV Emulation Addon”…
The future is here, and JavaScript (JS) is everywhere, but JS development is so hard that many people prefer to develop in other languages and then compile their code to JS, using JS as a universal runtime. Here are the…
Ok, I’m supossed to be an Android developer, but i’m going back to HTML+JS for some projects, and I found that HTML5 has really powerful new APIS, these are my favourite: WebGL: Is changing the game rules, finally advanced 3D…
Recently I’m hearing that Internet Explorer 10 (IE) is great, etc. but IE continues lacking some standards like WebGL. I’m working with WebGL in some HTML5 projects like: and I couldn’t make the IEWebGL plugin work (it requires a different initialization). But…
For those who don’t follow me in the social networks, I’m now a co-organizator of the GDG Vigo (Google Developers Group), founded by Reinaldo Aguilera. In this group we are organizating a lot of interesting (and free!) Android and HTML5 activities (speechs,…
Este fin de semana aparecí en el suplemento Tendencias del periódico El Gorreo Gallego. Lo que esperaba fuera una esquina de una columna resultó ser un reportaje de dos páginas (!). Sólo puedo agradecer al periodista Xabier Sanmartín y al…
El viernes pasado, y gracias a la iniciativa de María Encinar (@encinar) y Martín Pérez (@mpermar), se llevó a cabo el primer evento para desarrolladores móviles en Galicia: MobileCONGalicia. Las ponencias fueron de los más variado, tuvimos a: Algunas de…
