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Congrats to Packt Publishing! 1000 Titles and Counting! 28 Sep 2012 | 09:37 am
Hey everyone, Just got an email from Packt Publishing with the exciting news that they’ve published their 1000th title! Pretty impressive no? Any ways, to celebrate: ——————————————————————————————————...
Passing Objects in Intents: Parcelables and More 26 Sep 2012 | 07:59 am
Hey everyone, For this post, I thought I’d revisit the topic of Intents. In the past I’ve talked about passing Intents in between classes with simple, primitive data (see Passing Information between A...
Parsing JSON on Android 11 Sep 2012 | 08:33 am
Hey everyone, Now a days when people talk about transferring data through HTTP requests, two popular data formats come to mind: JSON and XML. In earlier posts, I’ve written a little about XML (see ), ...
Granting Content Provider URI Permissions 8 Aug 2012 | 12:12 pm
Hey everyone, The goal of this short example is to show you how you can further protect your application’s data by enforcing permissions upon your custom content provider. For those who have never see...
Book: Android Database Programming 20 Jun 2012 | 03:38 am
Hey everyone! First off – I just wanted to thank you all for making this blog what it is. It’s been great getting your feedback through comments and emails, and I hope this blog has helped you guys i...
Lazy Loading Images: From URLs to ListViews 14 Jun 2012 | 10:09 am
Hey everyone! Recently while working on a project I was asked to lazy load a list of images (bitmaps) into a ListView. What made the task even trickier was the fact that each image had to be streamed...
2011 In Review 1 Jan 2012 | 02:57 pm
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 530,000 times in 2011. I...
Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday 26 Dec 2011 | 05:20 pm
Two years ago today, still a junior in college and bored out of my mind at home, I started this blog with a humble post. My goal for this blog was simple: I wanted to share not just my coding experie...
Google App Engine – Final Thoughts and Comments 19 Dec 2011 | 08:10 am
Hey everyone, So now that I’ve officially finished my Google App Engine series (which I hope you will all find useful and applicable), I just wanted to share some final thoughts I had on application ...
Google App Engine – Bringing it Back To Android (4) 19 Dec 2011 | 07:20 am
Hey everyone, And so we come to the end of our series and we bring it all together and bring it back to Android. At this point, we have a fully functional, scalable GAE back-end, equipped with cron-...
