Resolving the dual ItemClick conundrum for the Android Gallery View

Yes, the Gallery View is deprecated, however currently there really isn’t an out of the box solution to what the…

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Update the AndroidManifest Version Number automatically

Recently I needed to automate the update of the versionName element in the AndroidManifest.xml file. This needed to be timed…

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YouTube GData API and Android

If you want to use the YouTube API v2 to search for content on YouTube with an Android device, the…

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Adding Overlay Icons to ImageViews

While working on Serenity for Android, one of the many requests I received was to have a Watched Status indicator…

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Detecting Television Feature on Android

I wrote up a post on google plus, that may be interested to a wider audience.  If you are an…

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Creating a Google TV Sliding Navigation Menu

The standard design pattern for Google TV apps is generally to use the LeftNavBar library. Unfortunately there isn’t an apklib…

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Android – Google TV Subtitle Support

One of the more frequent questions from users of Serenity for Google TV, is the ability to play back subtitles…

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Cobertura and Maven: Code Coverage for Integration and Unit Tests

On the turmeric project, we maintain a nightly dashboard. On the dash board we collect statistics about the project, including…

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Enterprise SOAP Services in a Web 2.0 REST/JSON World

With the popularlity of JSON and other NoSQL data standard formats, the complexity and in some cases the plain verbosity…

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