Issue #30
July 1st, 2012Articles & Tutorials
Maven and Android
(blog.stylingandroid.com)
Maven is a very powerful dependency manager for Java. This article shows you how to mavenize your Android project.
Managing Background Tasks on Android using the Alarm Manager
(hascode.com)
In this tutorial you''ll learn how to manage background tasks that have to be repeated periodically.
Libraries & Code
Beardroid
(github.com)
Some usefull code to create Amazing Android Apps. The project lacks a lot of documentation but the aim is create a bunch of boilerplate code for Android Application development.
Swipe to Dismiss
(gist.github.com)
Swipe to Dismiss is an interesting UI Pattern. In this gist you can find an example code.
Double Tap List View Handler
(github.com)
Swipe to Dismiss is an interesting UI Pattern. In this gist you can find an example code.
Tools
Droid Draw
(code.google.com)
Layouting in Eclipse ADT can be a little quiry. DroidDraw is a nice little cross platform WYSIWYG editor to create Android layouts.
News
Google IO 2012
(developers.google.com)
If you don't want to miss all the news about the Google IO checkout the official website or searh the #io12 hashtag on Twitter or Google+
Huge redesign
(plus.google.com)
Google IO brought a huge redesign of the official Android Developer website. And it's great - we love it!
Videos
A lot of new toys for developer, If you already missed the live sessions, we bookmarked them on Watchlater:
400 million Android activations! (watchlaterapp.com)
Introducing Google Now (watchlaterapp.com)
Introducing Nexus 7 (watchlater.com)
Google Nexus 7 Demonstration and official Presentation at Google I/O 2012 (watchlater.com)
Introducing Nexus Q (watchlater.com)
How Nexus Q Works (watchlater.com)
Google+ Events: introducing a new way to get together (watchlater.com)
Go Offline with Google Maps for Android (watchlater.com)
Project Glass: Skydiving Demo at Google I/O 2012 (watchlater.com)
Google Wallet for digital goods (watchlater.com)