After starting the Vancouver Island Java User Group VIJUG over five years ago and running many successful meetings it is time to mix it up. Android and technologies like HTML 5 are taking the center stage of interest for many … Read more →
I am back from AnDevCon III and had a great time again. It will take me a bit to collect all my thoughts so for today I am just going to tell you how awesome the fireside chat I organized … Read more →
Last night at AnDevCon 3 I did a lightning talk as last speaker in a lineup of 12 in front of >300 people and got a few great laughs and a lot of agreement from the audience. Probably because my … Read more →
The buzz is all happening now here at AnDevCon and I just completed my workshop about using Apache Maven and related to tools for Android development pros and teams with an engaged audience of about 25 people.
It is time again for AnDevCon (three already!) and with that it is time for me to host another fireside chat. All the previous fireside chats at AnDevCon and AnDevCon II were a big success covering different topics from Android … Read more →
I just uploaded Android Lint to the Central Repository recently as part of my work on the Android4Maven project and now my good friend and conspirator Jake Wharton and myself have done the groundwork to get the compatibility/support library V4 … Read more →
Ever since the Android Lint tool was released by Xavier, Tor and the rest of the great team at the Android Tools project, I thought this would be really great to have as a goal for the Android Maven Plugin. … Read more →
After presenting a long workshop about testing Android apps last Sunday at AnDevCon 2, I bounced into a lot of people interested in the topic and also had some very interesting conversations that show there might be a bright future … Read more →
With a sore throat I braved through the presentation about taking advantage of Apache Maven for your Android application development builds today in front of 40 or so people. I have the impression that the interactive session with demos was … Read more →
Okay… my voice is better now that I had a cup of hot water after holding the workshop about testing Android applications and talking for 4 hours. I covered a lot of ground all the way from plain java testing … Read more →