On November 5th Android will celebrate its 5th birthday. To celebrate this Google developer- and technology user group leaders in Europe have announced the “V Hack Android” hackathon (pronounced “We Hack Android”). “V Hack Android” Dutch edition I&#

The mobile sites we designed and developed for Binck are featured on the Dutch version of Google’s “How to go Mobile” campaign to promote the mobile web. The sites we make detect which phone your have and serve optimized content. Included in the site is a mobile CMS so that BinckBank

From the 26th of February to the 1st of March 2012 I’ll be at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Hall 2.1 is dedicated entirely to Apps and promises to be the most interesting part of this exhibition which hosted over 50000 visitors last year. I welcome you to drop by and h

Looking for improved Android UI experience, I came across the ViewPager. Look at the native Android Market and you will see a ViewPager implementation in action.   Basically you can implement scrolling sets of views. It was released as part of the Compatibility Package (revision

It’s been a wonderful and exciting two days of enjoying the first ever Droidcon in the Netherlands. Not only did I talk to a lot of people about the DutchAUG, I also had the chance to give a presentation about “Prototyping your Android application”. Let me give you s

So, you are looking to improve the performance of an Android application. Besides using tools like MAT and StrictMode it’s a good idea to look at general improvements to speed up your application. The link below provides some hints and tips to help create efficient code. This ar

When you want to improve an Android application performance, you need to do profiling. Welcome MAT! What is MAT? It’s a Java heap analyzer tool introduced by Eclipse that helps you find memory leaks. How-To First you need to extract a hprof file from the Android device. When run

Did you look at the media channels of Itude Mobile already?. You don’t know Itude Mobile! From 2005 Itude Mobile has provided mobile websites and mobile applications to a variety of organisations such as Cordys, BinckBank, Alex.nl and content providers such as Tonetastic. These

As some of you already may have noticed, the new Android 4.0 SDK Tools and ADT 14 contained some manor bugs. For example a scrolling issue in the new Logcat or the not so complete changes they made regarding Android Library projects (apkLib). If you are interested in the complete list

When developing Android applications that uses network and database access, you need to do performance tuning. This is where StrictMode comes in handy StrictMode? StrictMode is used to detect memory leaks. It’s has introduced in Gingerbread and can be used as a development tool.