Archive For The “Android” Category

Goodbye Google Base :(

By | March 6, 2011

I’ve just submitted my project proposal for Uni and decide to make a start collating information, then I find out Google Base is going. Google Base was supposed to be a major part of my final year project, however it appears Google has other plans. The whole service has been depreciated and will be gone [...]

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It’s been a while.

By | January 21, 2011

Since I posted here… Heres a catch up! I’ve since started creating iPhone, iPad apps and backed off with the Android apps.  One reason, iOS pays compared to Android.  Maybe this will change in future but for the time being, I’m sticking with iOS and plan to push out random apps!  I’m looking for that [...]

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UK Property Market – The rightmove for Android!

By | July 15, 2010

If you have followed my blog, a couple of months ago I started to develop a Rightmove app for Android.  I got to the stage where I felt I should seek permission to release the app using the data supplied from Rightmove before I continued.  Unfortunately they refused. Never mind.. A few week ago I started [...]

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UK Lotto/Lottery Results (Week 3)

By | June 14, 2010

Another week means another Android application that I’ve managed to push out This week its a UK lottery results app which obtains the latest lottery results from the interwebs and displays it all nicely on the users screen.  The application will work from Android version 1.6, so theres a good chance your handset will support [...]

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Hawkeye – New Android App (Week 2)

By | June 5, 2010

Following on from last weeks app which was launched to the market.  This week comes another app available via the market.  At this rate I may have to set up ‘a app a week’ weksite – similar to Jayekai’s A Game A Week website  Doubt I have the time to be able to push one [...]

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UK Universities – Android App (Week 1)

By | May 29, 2010

Since the Rightmove app was a non-starter, I’ve decided (in my quest to publish my first ever app for a mobile device) to create something else. I’m not entirely sure where this app will end, but the initial app will be a simple directory with some advanced features.  Using the data I collected last year [...]

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Rightmove – The Android Application

By | February 10, 2010

I’ve recently been looking for something to create for Android, something that would be a challenge and not your usual pointless (iBeer/Flashlight  yawn…) application. Being a fan of the Rightmove application for the iPhone (which sadly isn’t available for us Android users) I decided to see if it would be possible to create a version [...]

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Parse JSONArray + JSONObject from webpage/website using HttpClient

By | January 24, 2010

This example will allow a Android application to connect to a web service that serves JSON objects/arrays.  This example has been derived from the RESTful example posted here. This app will connect to a web page/site/service located – http://rentopoly.com/ajax.php?query=Bo and returns a JSONArray of towns/cities and universities that match the supplied query.  This service produces [...]

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Android OnClickListener and Toast Example

By | January 18, 2010

To celebrate my new purchase for a Google Nexus One – I’ve started looking into Android development. Android is built in Java and since I studied Java at University I decided to have a little play.  From experience of using Android there are times when on screen messages pop up for whatever reason.  In Android [...]

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