As you all know the main supported persistence mechanism on Android is storing data in the extremely widespread embedded database SQLite. Now when you look around various books and documentation, the examples you get are most of the time are … Read more →
So you got your Android application building with Maven and the instrumentation tests running on the continuous integration server give you an all green. Features are good on your application and you think it is time to get it on … Read more →
Recently there has been some discussion on the Maven Android Developer list about getting multi module projects working in Eclipse and IntelliJIDEA. I use IntelliJ IDEA every day and it works very well for me even though there are some … Read more →
With the latest release of the Maven Android Plugin a bunch of changes I did went out to the rest of the users of the plugin. As of version 2.5.0 the plugin has improved verification of the sdk platform and … Read more →
It all started now quite a while ago when I got involved with the Maven Android Plugin and found that having to run a bunch of mvn install file commands sucked. I launched a ticket in the Android issue tracker … Read more →
In the beginning writing apps for Android is easy. Then the usual things creep in. You start getting beyond Hello World examples and answers on mailing list, you begin refactoring code and features and you really need to make sure … Read more →
So recently I have been doing a lot of Android development and generally having a great time. In general the Android API is very complete and offeres support for a whole lot of features and task. I did however have … Read more →
So yesterday I went over to Vancouver to present about Apache Maven and how it can be used for Android application development. There were about 20 people in the audience with a very wide range of exposure to Android development … Read more →
This week I will be travelling to the mainland and present about
At the upcoming April 2010 meeting of the Vancouver Island Java User Group I will present about the Android operating system from the Open Handset Alliance. By now everybody with some technology interest has probably heard about that Google phone … Read more →