Japan Quake Visualized on Earthquake Alert!
I’ve always been fascinated with Earthquakes. This fascination lent itself well once I began writing Android apps. I was able to combine my interests and create Earthquake Alert!, an app that give users a great way to view and explore earthquakes all around the world. As an active user of th...
My Map Location Tutorial - Where am I?
If you’re writing an Android App using a MapView, then you will most likely want to view the user’s location. This tutorial will show you how to create an activity that makes use of Android’s built-in MyLocationOverlay class.
Custom Android Tabs
Wanting to change the default TabWidget look and feel for Android? In this tutorial, we will investigate a few different ways to customize your app’s tabs.With Android SDK 1.6 and above, the SDK allows you to set a View as the tab instead of just text and an icon. We use be using that techniq...
Border Wait gets mini UI overhaul
Border Wait was my first Android app and it showed - basic ListView, simple icons, and a launcher icon I found from the web. Time for an update.
Android Tabs with interacting map and list views
The goal in this tutorial is to have a list of geo coordinates and when we click on an item in the list, our map view goes to that location.
Android TabActivity with two list views
In this tutorial, we will create a slightly more advanced application. We will have two listviews as the content of a tabactivity and have them interact with one another (basically by clicking the items of one list view will add them to the second list view).
Draft Punk Android App
I published a new app today for Android. It’s targeted for the fantasy sports fan like me. Every year, I do an offline draft for my fantasy football league. The problem with offline drafts though, is that you have to fumble around with various paper cheatsheets or internet printouts and make ...
Border Wait Android App
A buddy at work often commutes to Mexico and noticed there weren’t any apps (iPhone or Android) that provided the current wait times to return to the U.S. Since the customs and border patrol web site provides those times, I figured I could put together an Android app listing all the borders a...
Run a Perl or CGI script with justhost.com
For an upcoming android app I’m writing, I needed to get a perl script running on my webhost (justhost.com). For the longest time, I couldn’t get it to work. The support is definitely lacking, but I finally got it to work.
Fantasy football drafter GUI
Last football (fantasy) season, my league had a live draft. I didn’t want to do the old magazines, web printouts, highlighter, scratch paper, etc deal, so I decided to write a simple GUI that showed me the fantasy ranks from various online sports sites. Of course, once a player is removed, I ...