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&#

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

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.

Besides the release Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) software development kit (SDK) don’t forget the new SDK Tools and ADT 14. The new features for the SDK tools and ADT are listed on the Android Developers website. To summarize, those are as follows: Improved Eclipse Welcome wi

Google has (finally) released its Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) software development kit (SDK). So let’s take a closer look.

While a few committed individuals have been camping out for the iPhone 4S for some time now, others are now beginning to filter toward their local Apple retail stores in their attempts to secure one of the new models.     But wait there is more news… No not about Apple