Tag android

A small problem with the facebook Android SDK

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,…

Using two location providers on Android

Android has two kinds of accuracy on location: This location methods can be enabled or disabled by the user on the preferences or with some widgets. Initially on our apps we used only one LocationProvider with “Fine” accuracy: As the…

Mobialia at LabAndroid

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…

Dealing with the “Bitmap Size Exceeds VM Budget” error

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…

Find Android apps with AppBrain

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 frustating,…

Google DevFest 2010

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…

Presentación sobre Android na SobrosoParty 2010

Mañá vou facer unha presentación de Android e organizar un pequeno workshop na SobrosoParty (). Tamén falarei do meu novo proxecto Mobialia e das aplicacións para Android que teño feitas. A presentación de mañá se pode descargar no seguinte enlace:

Mobialia Chess for Android

The new version 2.0 adds the support to play online on freechess.org (FICS). You can play against people all around the world and compare your chess knowledge. Thousands of hours of entertainment with this new version. Also has many improvements…