Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve created a couple of small apps for fun, to scratch my own itch, and to experiment a little with Android Market. Check them out: Headphone Action Small utility for starting an app of your choice whenever your headphones are plugged into your device. My first paid app, to …
Category Archive: Android
Apr
19
Android: Handling longpress/longclick on map (revisited)
I’ve prevously written about my attempts to capture longpress/longclick on a map (see this post). As I wrote in that post: “While working on my MapActivity based Android app, I wanted to be able to show a context menu when the user longpressed any point on the map (not necessarily a marker in an overlay) …
Nov
21
Android: Adding desktop shortcut support to your app
So you have an app with quite a bit of functionality, but you would like to offer your users some way of performing often used actions or go directly to an often used activity besides the one triggered by your apps launcher. Android offers desktop shortcuts (if you don’t know about them, try long-pressing your …
Sep
11
Favoritt-apps til Android
En liten oppsummering av mine mest brukte Android-apps. Jeg vil oppdatere denne artikkelen etterhvert. Locale Dette er for meg en av de virkelige killer-appene til Android. Dette er det gamle profil-systemet du er vant til fra andre telefoner, på steroider; Du kan få telefonen til å reagere på situasjoner som endringer i batteristatus, hvem som …
Jul
25
Android: Map tiles not loading – and possible fixes
I have encountered two reasons for the Google Maps tiles not loading. One is rather common, and the other one only seem to affect some phones. Read on for the details.
