Issue #25

May 7th, 2012

Sorry!

Link Bild Sorry for the delay (androidweekly.net)

We were on the road in cologne on a hackathon event and had a lot of stuff to do.

 

Articles & Tutorials

Link Bild Restlet API (wiki.restlet.org)

This sample application aims at illustrating the port of the Restlet API on the Google Android platform.

 

Hire Android App Developer (android.ezinemark.com)
5 non technical skills to look forward to.

How to use intents to launch several activities (mobileorchard.com)
How to use intents to launch several activities within the same application and how to pass data between them.

Why is my list black? (curious-creature.org)
An Android optimization - how to customize the listview for Android.

31 Days of Android: Day 4 (chrisrisner.com)
Our first App.

Libraries & Code

Droid-Fo -> Ignition (github.com)
Droid-Fu was a nice library of helper classes - you Ignition is aiming to supersede it. It contains several widgets, a better HTTP Client and a nicer and more robust implementation of AsyncTask.

Android and self-signed ssl certificates (blog.synyx.de)
Dealing with self-signed SSL certificates is a real pain, because it's not that simple to add them in your app and let android accept them. But fortunately, there's a workaround that uses an own SSLSocketFactory and an own TrustManager.

Screencasts

Link Bild Learn about RenderScript (watchlaterapp.com)

RenderScript is an API that allows developers to better utilize the GPUs in the newest Android phones.

 

App of the Week

Fancy (play.google.com)
Fancy is for curators of style. It's part blog, part magazine and part bookmarking tool. It's a place to share and discover great stuff, to curate a collection of things that define your style, to create a museum of Me.