First impressions last, and the very first impression your users have of your iPhone application is the start up. First step is to have a nice Default.png, but not many…
The megahertz race is over, and instead we get more execution cores. This means that we as developers must make our applications parallel, in order to take advantage of the…
Regular expressions is a powerful tool for solving many problems related to text. It can be misused as any good tool, but there are moments when they are the best…
Working with external storage in the Android emulator could be a little tricky and the documentation is not easy to find. I'll try to give a brief walk through of…
NSArray and NSMutableArray have methods for sorting arrays, NSArray returns new sorted arrays and NSMutableArray can be sorted in place. The sort methods comes in three flavours; using a function,…
One thing that often confuses developers new to the Android platform is the handling of layout resources. The xml files describing the layouts are magically transfered into a more efficient…
Many Java developers are looking at new dynamic languages, such as Groovy and JRuby, mostly because of the freedom and rapid development that a dynamic language allows. Some of my…
The new release of iPhone OS 3.0 adds some nice API:s for managing a contextual toolbar. This is well needed as toolbars in the current iteration of iPhone OS is…
It is no secret that the published interfaces for MIDP classes in any JavaME Platform is only a subset of what in reality is there. Most of the native calls…
Many of the UIView subclasses in Cocoa, and especially Cocoa Touch are created by combining many different simple views into a more complex view. UITableViewCell is a good example, concisting…
I have encountered a problem when implementing a nine-patch painter for MIDP 2.0, most of my graphics where left transparent for no-reason. A nine-patch is an image with a flexible…
When developing in Java ME and wanting to support several different devices, you wil no doubt run into problems with devices behaving differently. In some cases it is only the…
Apple has arranged a world tour of iPhone Tech Talks, and in cold december it was Scandinavia's turn and a crew of software evangelists from Apple turned up at KTH…
Hi there, Øredev was great success, especially all the people and the organization - a big Thank You to Michael and Emily for making this possible, you rock! Now, it…
Since the release of the Android SDK 1.0, people (including me) have been complaining about the lack of connectivity for the very convenient Smack API to talk to Googles GTalk…