“V Hack Android” Netherlands

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’m happy to announce that together with the Dutch Android User Group, G
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Google likes our work

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 can change and add their own content. The featured site is multi-language a
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MWC 2012

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 have a chat at stand 2.1E67.
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Implementing the ViewPager

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 3) and can be implemented for Android 1.6 and upwards. Add “Swipey Tabs“, a
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Droidcon NL, an impression

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 some of the highlights of droidconNL. Introduction DutchAUG Before the keyno
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