With great pride, I’m happy to announce The Dutch Android User Group has become a Foundation. Formalising our (Johan Pelgrim, Dennis Geurts and myself) initiative helps us in creating better content for the Dutch Android professional or hobbyist. By becoming a foundation we are

So you are stuck using screenOrientation in your android:configChanges list within your AndroidManifest. Your activity will not be recreated, but will receive a callback instead. You may not know that this is insufficient on API level of 13 or above. In API level 13 or above, the scre

Today a tip from my colleague Coen Houtman, a tip about Fragments and the container to put them in. What all of you Fragment users know, is that you must have a container (i.e. ViewGroup) to put your fragments in. Which ViewGroup is the best to use? Normally, with any other layout I w

So you want to use a Google TV emulator to develop Android applications. Many people having problems using the Google TV emulator because it hangs during booting (only showing the Google TV logo). The problem is that it only works with specific device configurations and resolutions. S

When starting a new year I always get the urge to rethink my goal, do doesn’t right!. Questions that go thru my mind are: am I still going where I want to go, do I need to change my direction, what will bring the new year. And like every year I can still say I’m going the