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Latest — Jan 15, 2013

PagerTabStrip + ViewPager

Maybe you already know about ViewPager and are using something like ViewPagerIndicator by JakeWharton for indicating the title. Did you know that there is something doing that in the support library? If you use it, it looks like this: Now how do you use this? First you need to set

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Android: Coverage report for unit tests

You want to have a nice report how much you cover with your Android unit tests? Here a quick walkthrough how to get such a report (see screenshots of report below). In this example I expect that your test project is in a folder "tests" in your project

Lift Tutorial 2: Nice Server with Jetty and MongoDB

What this tutorial will cover * EC2 instance * Jetty * MongoDB * Screen (to have both Jetty and MongoDB running in the background and see the output) * Easy deployment script (SCP) EC2 instance I just got a free micro EC2 instance at AWS (Amazon Web Services) for 1 year for free (see here)

Lift Tutorial 1: Development Environment Setup

What this tutorial will cover * Lift (Scala) * SBT (Simple Build Tool) * Jetty (Web Server - using it out of sbt) * Eclipse (Editor) * IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (Editor) Operating System I will write down instructions for Mac OS X. But for Windows or Linux the instructions might only differ slightly. Create

Android: Useful adb shell commands

While I am developing on Android there are some commands the android shell offers, that I just love. They are very helpful for debugging or testing some things. Let me share my favorites with you. If you have other ones you use often, please tell me those in the comments.

Android: Reverse Engineering

Why would you want to reverse engineer a android application? Well there are different reasons: * To find out how the other apps work * To see how they behave * How you can send Intents to those Apps to open certain Activities from your own app (did that with the Facebook app)

Android: Make your Android apps unlockable through payment

Do you want to offer a free version of your Android app and as well a paid version without ads and more functionality but with the same basic features? I wanted to do so with my SleepTimer app (extended/unlocked version with Widget and no ads). But what can be

SleepTimer: Stop Services attempt without root [failed]

Problem: With Android 2.2 (Froyo) packages can't be force closed through restartPackage() anymore. Exactly this is what SleepTimer relied on to turn off the different Services which are running music. Thanks to Corsin Camichel I found an example on how Google force closes packages in Android 2.

ScrumTable

Yesterday we finished our bachelor project called ScrumTable which we did at the HSR. It was a fun time together with Michael Gfeller and Silvan Gehrig. We received wonderful feedback about ScrumTable. Michael and Silvan will continue to develop ScrumTable at the HSR. ScrumTable can be used in Scrum Meetings

Android: Get root in 1.5 image for ADP1

One of the things that shocked me in 1.5 is that root is not possible on the phone anymore. Even with the ADP1 image! Following this post on Google Groups - Android-DevPhone-Updating the following comment was made: According to the Android Developers, in 1.5, root access is no

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