Android

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…

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

AsyncTask Domination

I’m currently working on a project that is using the MediaPlayer to play MP3 files, and in my main Activity I’m using an AsyncTask to continuously update the SeekBar. But I kept running into a weird bug.

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…

Sweet animation

For a recent app I was developing I needed to clear all the items in a ListView. And instead of just wiping the adapter and presenting the user with an empty list I wanted to give the impression of the list actually getting rid of the list items, one by one. Just like the animation in Jelly Bean…

Android Design Growing Up

I remember when I first saw the YouTube video introducing Android 3.0 Honeycomb in early 2011: