As part of my MeCercana application, I needed to refresh data in some form. My application has 3 tabs, one of the tabs displays contacts from the contacts book, this works great if you switch the phone off after adding a new contact, but that isn’t ideal. What I needed, was a way to refresh, […]
Category: Java
If your developing an Android application, chances are you will have multiple activities that perform various tasks. One of my first questions when I was investigating Android, was how can I pass data between my Activities? Moreover, how can I retain some form of state, globally throughout my application, so I can dynamically pass data […]
If your developing applications on Android, and are looking at using the Maps API, chances are you are going to want to plot items on the map, and in order to do that you need to know the longtitude and latitude of the location you wish to mark. I’ll assume that you already have a […]
The operators for incrementing and decrementing in Java has been irritating me for some time now, just when I think I understand whats going on, I try a mock exam for SCJP and I get caught out. So I’ve decided to sit down, do a bit of reading, and drill it out. Take this example, […]
So, you’ve written a nice J2EE application and have uploaded it onto the GAE only to be upset that your nice variables are displaying as ${contact.firstName} for example? No worries, its a simple issue, GAE seems to ignore expression language by default and all you need to do is to add the following line into […]
So, you have a Java web application that you would like to host somewhere for free, no worries, Google to the rescue. What is Google App Engine? Well to quote from their site… Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, […]
After being introduced to Struts1, Struts2 and SpringMVC at a very early stage in my development career, I was very happy to work on a project with Stripes. Stripes can do nearly everything I was doing with other action based frameworks, but is much simpler to use but is also a very versatile framework. I’ve […]