Kyle W. Banks

[...] a View to populate. For example, you could set the view to display the title of the Post object, or color it based on if the user has read the post, etc. For now (Version 0.1), the [...]

[...] in write mode through our DatabaseWrapper. Once the database is available to us, we pack the Post object into a ContentValues map with the appropriate column names used as the key for each property. [...]

[...] UPDATE: I have published an Android library called AnimatedListView that accomplishes the goal of this very post. If you would prefer to [...]

[...] on Android, similar to how Google does it in their Google Plus app. I decided to publish an Android library that manages the animations for you, allowing you to easily integrate it into any project. [...]

[...] taking a tour of Dart. Let's Get Started: The first thing we need to do is set up our development environment: First up: Download the Dart Editor, and unzip it to a location of your choosing. I [...]

[...] Grails 2.1 arrived, controller classes have not been auto-reloaded when edited in a development environment. I'm not sure if this is now the intended behaviour of controllers, but it sure can [...]

[...] the majority of the code there. By default BootStrap will create one AdminUser when in Development environment to get you started, and the properties of this admin can be modified directly there. If [...]

A common method of developing HTML5 applications for Android is to implement a native WebView and have it load your HTML5 web page. Using this method, [...]

[...] When using resources in an Android application, it is usually sufficient to make use the of resource manager with functions such as [...]

[...] example. By now you should be well on your way to implementing a client-side cache in your Android application. Let me know in the comments if you would like to see examples of UPDATE and DELETE [...]

[...] when using a REST API, it is effective to map integers from your JSON to an enum in your Java models. With Google's GSON library, the process of doing this is can be a little tricky, but I [...]

This tutorial will cover how to fetch and parse JSON from a remote server on Android. We will use GSON, a JSON parsing library developed by Google, to [...]

[...] In a previous post I mentioned how you can use GSON to parse JSON into Java models on Android, allowing you to communicate with a remote server and make use of the data it [...]

[...] model works is very basic: The solution I came up with was to write a static method in the Post class that mimics the style of the injected CRUD methods. I want to statically invoke it and have it [...]

[...] for transferring data between types, and is something we will implement for our Post class. The reason for implementing the ORM is it makes maintaining SQL queries and column-to- [...]

[...] PostFetcher class. The first is that we need to define how date's will be parsed if we want the Post class to get the proper date object. We could just have Post keep hold of a string, but a Date is [...]

[...] the steps of implementing them: Tutorial: Implementing a Client Side Cache using the SQLite Database on Android and SQLiteOpenHelper Implementing Google Plus Style ListView Animations on [...]

In a previous post I mentioned how you can use GSON to parse JSON into Java models on Android, allowing you to communicate with a remote server and ma [...]

Everyone knows using the default font in an application can get a little boring. The new Roboto typeface in Android is all well and good, but it can l [...]

[...] Google Plus Style ListView Animations on Android Applying Custom TTF Fonts in an Android Application Using Typeface Here are a few screenshots of what you can expect to see in the app: Check it out [...]

[...] the header isn't already in the desired state (I do this by applying a CSS off class when the user scrolls down, and removing it when they reach the top). This significantly reduces the amount of [...]

[...] these days on Android because of the slick animations it displays when presenting data. When a user scrolls down, new items animate up into view, and quite frankly it looks awesome. In my latest app I [...]