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Translate for Animals

GeekDroid — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:03:36 +0000

Ahahahah! Bellissimo :)

Apple sues HTC

GeekDroid — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:12:40 +0000

If Google is not evil, then the evil must be Apple.

And I’m quite sure it is.

[Screencast Android #1] – Ciao Mondo

GeekDroid — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:46:42 +0000

Questo è il primo episodio di una serie di screencasts in italiano (o lezioni video) dedicati al mondo della programmazione Android.

In questa prima puntata creeremo una semplice applicazione, un tipico “Ciao Mondo” e la faremo girare sull’emulatore.

English

This is the first episode of a series of screencasts talking about Android programming.

In this first video we will make a simple application: a typical “Hello World” and we will make it run on the emulator.

Language: Italian.

An Android Book about UI design

GeekDroid — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:27:22 +0000

Somethink I really wish it will be released is a book teaching how to design beautiful and user-friendly interfaces for Android. The official docs offer good guidelines, but they are only a good starting point.

Android Tip — Go Fullscreen

GeekDroid — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:25:01 +0000

In your applications and games, you often have to go fullscreen. Actually, different kinds of fullscreen exist. You may need to remove the title bar only or to get a real fullscreen.

If you want to remove the title bar, but not the Android notifications bar, simply modify your manifest under the activity tag of your XML:

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"

If you need a real fullscreen, then you have to use this code in your Activity class:

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

Catch USSD responses

GeekDroid — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:51:04 +0000

Android APIs lack a system to grab the response of USSD codes. Don’t you think this is a bad issue? Without it it’s impossible to make, for example, a program that captures the USSD response for a credit request to the operator, forcing a developer to use work-arounds for the same goal, like web requests. More >

Mobile World Congress 2010 — 60.000 Android terminals sold each day

GeekDroid — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:06:22 +0000

According to Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, every day in the world 60.000 Android powered phones are sold. This is really great news. Come on, my fellows… let’s fill this Android Market with our wonderful applications and games.

Rokon Game Framework

GeekDroid — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:53:04 +0000

Android really needs a solid framework. Specifically, a multimedia multipurpose framework. Something to help game developers in their hard work. Rokon Framework is an open source project that aims to that. It started with very few library functions, some months ago, and now it’s becoming something serious.

Give it a look and if you are going to try it, share your feedback!

Note for the Rokon developer: please fix your Wiki page on your site. Your tutorials have been (and they are) inaccessible for days!

Android Tip – Debug or trace messages

GeekDroid — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:03:03 +0000

Who comes from Java feels pretty comfortable using System.out.println() to output some debug messages.
If you come from Actionscript you certainly use trace() for the same reason.

In Android, the better way to trace messages in the console is the Log class. If you have to output a string for testing purposes, try with:

Log.d(myStringDescription, myString);

For example:

Log.d("Message", "Hello, World!");

I’m sure you are going to be comfortable, once used to it!

Android Tip – How to generate random numbers

GeekDroid — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:29:25 +0000

In every programming language, you have sometimes to generate a random integer number in a defined range.

Here is how you can do it in Android.

First, declare and initialize the generator:

Random generator = new Random();

Then, get a random number:

int n = generator.nextInt(n);

where n is the upperbound limit.