ListViews, Adapters and task delegation
I think the ListView is one of the more complex views in Android and today i needed a class to simply display a list. I thought of some requierments for this adapter class and this are the important...
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Some lessons i learned using the Eclipse custom view preview feature:Many of the Android versions you can choose in the UI editor of Eclipse do not render custom UIs correctly. The one I use now is...
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SimpleUI v2
I created a new version of the SimpleUI library:The new v2 version has some benefits over the old v1 version (which can still be used) and is more flexible. It was important for me to allow a better...
View ArticleDrawing arbitrary text on an Android canvas
Today i creaded a small method to draw some text to a fixed area in a canvas:private static void drawText(Canvas canvas, int xStart, int yStart,int xWidth, int yHeigth, String textToDisplay,TextPaint...
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Launching an Android App in the jMonkey SDK
Its realy simple to compile and run an Android application in the jMonkey SDK but I had to ask in the forum how its done so I thought it might be a good idea to write it down. Here are the 4 steps you...
View ArticleGQL Example Queries
Some additional examples for https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/gqlreferenceSELECT * FROM User WHERE nickName IN ('Tom')SELECT * FROM User WHERE nickName='Tom'SELECT * FROM...
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Presentation of our current developments
At the Droidcon Berlin we had a talk about our current work and where we are heading. The Droidcon gets better and bigger every year, lets hope next year we will be on board again :)Here are the slides...
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Best of Both Berlin 2013
After the trip to the US we directly flew back to Berlin to give our presentation on the "Best of Both". Some great talks at the beginning and alot of new connections. And reeeealy great food btw ;)And...
View ArticleThe camera does not have to be P.O.E
We saw Steve Mann at the AWE 2013 and it was a good talk but one thing he said bothered me (so much I wanted to write about it;) He said that the Google Glass is a generation 1 Augmented Reality HUD...
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AWE 2013
We went to Silicon Valley to join the Augmented World Expo 2013, some awesome talks, some strange ones ;) I met some celebrities (at least in the AR world ;) and talked to many AR glasses...
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At the IKT Berlin 2013 meeting Philipp Rösler
We were invited to the "Junge IKT-Wirtschaft: Gründen – Investieren – Wachsen" congress and Philipp Rösler, the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology visited us at our booth :)There were over 80...
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How to interact with your (future) AR glasses
AR glasses are already at your head and interacting with the virtual elements should not be based on head gestures, muscle readers, hand gestures, blinking eyes (and definitely not speech ;) if there...
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Tooltip UI
Here is a small tooltip UI util I created. It can be added to any Relative layout which contains a view that should be highlighted:
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Meta - Model Validation and UI generation
Wouldn't it be great to validate your model in a simple way, which can be added to any existing code without affecting the original functionality? And even better, why not using this validation logic...
View ArticleAn Android Adapter to display phonebook entries
The goal: Create an adapter for e.g. a ListView to display all phone book entries which have a phone number. Using the ResourceCursorAdapter this gets actually very simple:import...
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SimpleUI Template Project
I created a template project with some often used UI elements, if you still use Eclipse and did not switch to Android Studio yet this might be still interesting for you ;)
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Moving files onto Google Glass
There is no easy way to copy files to Google Glass at the moment. Here is how you can do it using ADB. Start your command promt:adb shell //to start the shell and navigate through the file...
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SimpleUi now has material design
SimpleUI got some visual improvements over the last weeks, so here are some updated screenshots for you. SimpleUI in general is a way to generate UI using the MVC principle. The developer only has to...
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