Java annotations are of great utility for android developers when using an appropriate library, generally providing more succinct code. There are two popular choices that provide annotations for boilerplate android code that I want to briefly discuss, RoboGuice and AndroidAnnotations. Each of these projects approaches the issue of processing annotations differently. Afterwards, I’ll look at a new project, DroidCook,
So you want to integrate twitter into your android app… This simple article has the “right stuff” to give your android application access to twitter. Your boss just walked into your cubicle and makes a rude remark about the lack of twitter integration in the app. Do you: A. Integrate twitter and upset the balance
There’s a new language on the block, and it’s recently had version 1.0 tagged. Go is a compiled language with some interesting features such as garbage collection, and concurrency that just works. More interesting perhaps though are the syntax choices for the language designed to make writing Go programs more compact and readable. They have a
During the course of development, there may come a time on android where you need to serialize an object. By far, the simplest way to handle this for an object containing primitives and primitive object wrappers is to implement the Serializable interface. There are caveats to this approach though. The resulting implementation can be significantly