Issue #54

February 22nd, 2013

Articles & Tutorials

Link Bild Using Cryptography to Store Credentials Safely (android-developers.blogspot.co.uk)

If you're using SecureRandom credential storage you should read this official Blog post on the official Android blog to avoid common antipatterns.

 

WMS On Android (azavea.com)
Sam Halperin has written a tutorial about the Web Map Service in the GoogleMaps v2 for Android API. It's intended as a reference to help someone trying to get WMS tiles (i.e. from GeoServer) onto an Android map.

Sponsored

Android Developer Conference (apps-world.net)
Check out a blog post about a free-to-attend Android developer event at Apps World North America on February 7-8 in San Francisco is all set to feature various leading Android developers, authors, evangelists and operators divulging their expertise on all things Droid.

AnDevCon Spring 2013 (andevcon.com)
AnDevCon Spring, May 28-31, Boston, is the technical conference for software developers building or selling Android apps. Receive a $100 discount off the prevailing rate of either the 4-day or 3-day pass by inserting the code MEDIASPONSOR when prompted on the eRegistration page linked from www.andevcon.com

Backend for your App (9elements.com)
Your app is ready but you need a kick ass backend for it? 9elements is specialized in creating stunning webservices. Request a quote.

Libraries & Code

Sticky Grid Headers (tonicartos.github.com)
Tonic Artos has created an Android Library that makes it easy to make grid views with sectioned data and headers that stick to the top.

Simpl3r (github.com)
A simple abstraction to upload multipart files directly to Amazon S3.

ListViewAnimations (bitbucket.org)
Niek Haarman has released a library that provides animations for ListViews. The sourcecode is available on BitBucket.

Android Chips EditText (kpbird.com)
Ketan Parmar has released a ChipsEditTextView which is a tokenized auto-completing text editing field like the recipients field in your gmail client.

tellandroid (github.com)
A set of utilities to make it easier to work with the android emulator telnet protocol.

Jobs

Post a job on Android Weekly (androidweekly.net)

Design

Link Bild How To Design For Android Devices (blog.mengto.com)

Meng To has released a brief guide how to design for Android devices.

 

Tools

Androidkickstartr updates (androidkickstartr.com)
Android Kickstarter is a nifty little tool to generate a preconfigured skeleton for your Android app. They've updated some configutions options lately, so if you start with a fresh codebase you should check it out.

Android Toolbox

Link Bild Android Weekly Toolbox! (androidweekly.net)

Choosing the right libraries to get things done can be a tough job. We've compiled a lot of them that we've found during the last years of Android development.