vrijdag 20 april 2012

Modified Google Play Store Removes Country Restrictions


Some developers are working in a custom version of Google Play which allow to jump the countries restriction that we can find in the oficial google play.

I am not testing this yet but I will...

Original Font:

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/modified-google-play-store-removes-country-restrictions/

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1582422

What is Weak References? Good to know


This is the typical question that you should  respond in the last job's interview.

There are a lot references in internet about it...good luck!

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2006/05/04/understanding-weak-references

donderdag 19 april 2012

Android Lint : new tool to detect possible errors

Android Lint is a new tool introduced in ADT 16 (and Tools 16) which scans Android project sources for potential bugs. It is available both as a command line tool, as well as integrated with Eclipse. The architecture is deliberately IDE independent so it will hopefully be integrated with other IDEs, with other build tools and with continuous integration systems as well.

Here are some examples of the types of errors that it looks for:

  • Missing translations (and unused translations)
  • Layout performance problems (all the issues the old layoutopt tool used to find, and more)
  • Unused resources
  • Inconsistent array sizes (when arrays are defined in multiple configurations)
  • Accessibility and internationalization problems (hardcoded strings, missing contentDescription, etc)
  • Icon problems (like missing densities, duplicate icons, wrong sizes, etc)
  • Usability problems (like not specifying an input type on a text field)
  • Manifest errors
and many more.

More details:  
http://tools.android.com/tips/lint