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 pretty trivial. When you then come from a background of full on relational database management systems like PostgreSQL, working with SQLite with have a few surprises to you. One of those surprises is that referential integrity is not a standard feature unless you have some tricks up your sleave.. (more…)
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Referential integrity with sqlite on Android the lazy way
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Sign, zipalign and to market, to market with Maven
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 to the Android market and among users to get some feedback. What now? I will show you how you can get your Android package ready for upload…
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Solidifying my Maven foundation
After attending Maven 201 recently and really enjoying it, I am attending Maven 101 from Sonatype today. Lets see if all my base r belong to me 😉
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Multi Module Android project in Eclipse
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 improvements needed. Eclipse on the other hand is something I know my way around well enough, but just never warmed up to it. But I knew that I had the Maven Android Plugin Samples multi module project MorseFlash working at some stage. And it seemed like I am the only one. So I promised to document how I have it set up….
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Sonatype Maven Training – MVN 201 continued
Continuing with my list of impressions and ideas from yesterday follows the next list:
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Impressions from the first day of MVN 201
I am attending the advanced Maven training course offered by Sonatype today and tomorrow and thought I would just jot down my impressions while they are fresh. Last week I already got the training material and links to some awesome resources provided by Matthew McCullough.
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Maven Android Plugin with zipalign and improved verification
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 api level, a new zipalign goal and maybe the emulator start works on windows too. And the samples have been expanded and changed to use the Android jar artifacts from Maven central. But lets look at the changes of the plugin in detail today and maybe the samples another day…
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