Thoughts and musings.
I was implementing push notification into the Activity Filter Android app, and noticed that they were not working having previously encounte
When building the Activity Filter app I was very much aware that the basic functionality (of what is a very simple app) had already been bui
I previously wrote a post entitled Timezones in software. There are many intricacies to consider when working with time zones in software, a
Problem The Training Plan Android app is set up such that the majority of the app is controlled from a single Activity (MainActivity) that
I was recently asked by a friend for some insight into the costs of having a multi-platform (Android and iOS) application developed. I tho
References are handled differently across different programming languages. Given that I work with a number of different languages it is impo
In the process of building an Android application I encountered a number of small and foolish issues which I thought that I would outline su
The content of this post relates to version 1.12 of Twitter's Android APIs (which were the latest versions at the time of publishing) One
Yesterday I encountered a problem when building the latest version of an Android app on which I am working. That problem was that when upl
I recently implemented the server side of a system to send notifications to iOS apps through APNS. This was extremely easy to implement and
Whilst clever solutions to complex problems are always interesting and insightful, sometimes the answer is a lot more simple. When gearing
Since version 17 of the Android API it has been possible to nest fragments within your applications. Using the support library that the Andr
Whilst I am aware of, and appreciative of the merits of both Roboguice and Dagger, I felt that they were not suitable for what I had initial
I was attempting to test a method which sets a photo inside an ImageView using Picasso when I stumbled upon an error. The error outputted to
In the process of building an application for Android I encountered an interesting requirement with a non-trivial solution. I wanted to im
Over the last couple of days I have been investigating the pull to refresh paradigm, and its possible implementation in an Android app. A
