How to customize the text appearance of a selected section in a Navigation Drawer

The purpose of this post is to show you how you can customize the text style of a selected item in an Android NavigationDrawer. These instructions assume that you already implemented a…

How to setup a Jenkins slave running Debian Wheezy for Android projects part 1

At Samsao, we use Jenkins for our continuous integration system. One nice feature of Jenkins is the ability to dispatch jobs to other systems called slaves. To do so, you first need to setup the…

Why does Android silently kill my app when minimized?

I recently had a weird bug with an Android application we are developing. When minimized (or paused, or put in background), the application would crash. Actually, it wouldn’t crash, it would just stop.

Pourquoi choisir une application native?

Étant donné que la sphère du mobile est encore très jeune et souvent mal comprise, je me…

Samsao a maintenant (plus d’)un an

Cela fait déjà quelque temps que j’ai rédigé ce billet, mais par oubli (et un peu de lâcheté :) il…

New Products from Twitter to Help Skyrocket Your Apps

Samsao lauréate d’une bourse de la fondation Montréal Inc.