Another Android Blog

Insights into those hard to solve Android Development problems

Skip to: Content | Sidebar | Footer

Category: Uncategorized

Extending from Two Activities (sort of)

3 January, 2013 (15:03) | Uncategorized | By: Randall Mitchell

There are generally very few reasons to need to mimic multiple inheritance of activities. One example that *may* find use of this sort of thing is a situation where a library that has a base activity is used when the project already has a base class. Generally, you will want your base class to extends [...]

Custom Spinner Style

1 July, 2011 (14:35) | Uncategorized | By: Randall Mitchell

I’ll have to do this later on, so this post is just a “bookmark”. It seems to be the better one that I found on the subject. http://www.mokasocial.com/2011/03/easily-create-a-default-custom-styled-spinner-android/

10 Useful Solutions for Android, from shaman.sir.

8 March, 2011 (18:48) | Uncategorized | By: Randall Mitchell

This blog post seems to have some useful information… mostly about ListView. http://shamansir.tumblr.com/post/2666153050/10-useful-solutions-for-android-developer

A Very Basic Application

7 March, 2011 (06:44) | Uncategorized | By: Randall Mitchell

I gave a presentation today on “Android Application Basics” today. Here is the program I used in my presentation. It is a really simple todo list with two activities: List and AddTaskForm. It uses a database class similar to the one in my database tutorial. Honestly, I like the way I wrote this class much [...]

Now Accepting Donations

29 December, 2010 (02:07) | Uncategorized | By: Randall Mitchell

I’ve added some information to the sidebar of my blog along with a PayPal donation button. It basically says I’m getting ready for college and have to quit my day job. Ideally, I can get a smidgen of additional financial help which will also incentivize me to focus more time and energies on this blog. [...]

Good Java Books To Read…

3 December, 2010 (06:05) | Uncategorized | By: Randall Mitchell

I’ve been doing some reading on SafariBooksOnline and found two books that have taught me some great information. I think both of these books are meant to be read away from the computer and are fairly smooth reads. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin This book is immensely informative [...]