Tag: java
- Eclipse Mars - Not ready for Linux Yet (30 Dec 2015)
So after hearing about all the hype and praises about this Eclipse new release called Mars, I decided to give it a try on my Ubuntu laptop yesterday. Since I already use Kepler the older version, I was looking for some big positives like performance improvements (most often talked about... - How to start Android App Development (26 Nov 2015)
One of the most frequently asked questions on almost any social networking sites these days is how do I start android app programming? Indeed, it is as if Android Development has become some abstract and obscure layer of programming model that only few Illuminati sort of individuals seem accomplished at.... - The REAL way to make Eclipse run faster on Ubuntu (02 Jun 2014)
If you are still one of those people who are frustrated with the crawling speed of eclipse IDE (especially after the recent clunky releases of Juno/Kepler), then you are in good company! Most of the advice you might have read until now for speeding up Eclipse must have involved tweaking... - How to create android dialogs in a reusable manner (01 Dec 2013)
Creating dialogs is a very common need in your app to show a dialog box to the user in order to fetch a value, be it a mobile, desktop or even a web application. Furthermore, the values can range from anything like simple OK-Cancel dialog results to a list of... - How to uniquely identify your Android device in code (28 Nov 2013)
My last android project involved tracking each device where the app is installed and storing the information to a database. It is quite a common need to uniquely identify your android device in code. Now, had it been a PC, it would have been easy to track the MAC-address of... - 3 Steps to integrate barcode scanning in your Android app (24 Nov 2013)
Whilst barcode scanning is a pretty complex and non-trivial task in itself, it could be overwhelming sometimes with android programming. Lucky for us, there exists an opensource project called ZXing (pronounced Zebra-crossing) that solves this problem for us. {.wp-image-152 .alignnone width=”108” height=”77”} The ZXing project has already done the heavy lifting...