Issue #47

November 30th, 2012

Articles & Tutorials

Link Bild Fragments and the Support Library (grokkingandroid.com)

In this Blog Post Wolfram Rittmeyer explains why fragments are so cool and how to make them run on older devices.

 

ViewPager Redux - Part 2 (blog.stylingandroid.com)

ViewPager Redux - Part 3 (blog.stylingandroid.com)
as always by the great Mark Allison

ActionBar on the move (android.cyrilmottier.com)
In this post by Cyril Mottier you'll learn how to create an ActionBar with an animated Background

Fun with Android and NFC (wiebe-elsinga.com)
Nice introduction into some NFC hacking by Wiebe Elsinga.

Android Design Patterns (de.slideshare.net)
Great slides by Fernando Cejas about Android design patterns.

Jobs

Mobile Developer at Two Toasters (Durham, North Carolina, USA)
Two Toasters is looking for Mobile Developers to join our team. At Two Toasters, you will be working with cutting edge technology to build state of the art iOS and Android applications with a team that enjoys working hard and playing ping pong.

doo - focus on building something great (Bonn, Germany)
Join us in the Tech Villa and develop the next killer Android App with an exceptionally team at doo. If you're a senior Android developer with a passion for building kick-ass apps, we look forward to hearing from you! Check out what its like to work at doo. https://doo.net/de/jobs.html

Android App Developer at The App Guys (Cologne, Germany)
Your job will be to develop Android Apps in a friendly, fair and relaxed working environment.You should enjoy programming and constant learning and have a sense for clean, reusable code. Knowledge of other programming languages than Java is a plus.

Post a job on Android Weekly (androidweekly.net)

Libraries & Code

Androidviews.net (androidviews.net)
Android Views is like our Toolbox a great collection of open source views for different purposes.

Switch Compat Library (github.com)
ICS backport of the Switch button for API Level 8.

Android Complex Preferences (github.com)
Complex Preferences is a library that helps you to store complex objects, even with associations, in the SharedPreferences.

Active Text View (github.com)
ActiveTextView is a view designed to add additional options for links within a TextView.

LinearListView (github.com)
Android library that allows you to bind a LinearLayout with a ListAdapter.

Android Formidable Validation (github.com)
Form validation and feedback library for Android.

Screencasts

Link Bild An Open Source ORM for SQLite on Android (marakana.com)

Project stORM is a template-based object relational mapping tool. This screencast gives you a good introduction of what stORM can do for you.

 

Android Squared (infoq.com)
Fascinating insight into the Android app from Square and their open source libraries.