Update ListView item

For a podcast app I had been working on that show a list of episodes, I wanted to do two things:

1. When the user clicked to download an episode show a progress bar for that specific row and continue to update it all through the download process

The Skype Widget

How I created a one-click call widget

When my dad got himself an Android tablet I wanted to help him understand the whole digital world. He had almost never used a computer or tablet before (neither iOS nor Android) so I knew I had to simplify…

CyanogenMod on a Nexus S

I have had my Nexus S since early 2011 and it has served me well. For a phone almost two years old it is quite snappy, given that you have enough free space on your internal memory (I have never liked external memory, but that’s another blog post).

Calendar in my code

The first app I wrote for Android (and indeed one of the firsts ideas I got for an app) was to solve a problem I was having as a professional consultant working on several client projects. With different time reporting systems I was having problems remembering what I had inputed in my client’s…

My Seinfeld Calendar

The last few weeks I’ve had a bit more spare time than I usually have so I have been coding away, learning new Android tricks, setting up GitHub and seriously working with git for the first time.

Abstract classes in Jersey with JAXB/Jackson

To implement abstract classes in your Jersey app (that should be serialized/deserialized) you need to setup JAXB and Jackson in a way so those libraries know how to work with your object models.