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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

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.

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…

Flat Design

If you’ve never heard of flat design before you’re probably not alone. But you have most likely seen it. The Android Holo design language is arguably a flat design approach, but more recently — and more prominently — the Microsoft Metro design.

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…