Building Custom Lists using ListView on Android Tutorial – Part 2

Overview Now that we have a Custom ListView with 2 TextViews and a ImageView, we may want to be able to search and filter through this list.  For this tutorial, we will add an EditText above the ListView to so users can filter between state or flower names.  If you skipped the first part of [...]

Building Custom Lists using ListView on Android Tutorial – Part 1

Overview For many projects, a list item needs to contain more than simply a single String.  This tutorial, which will contain 2 parts, will go over how to make a ListView with custom items that contain more than simply a String.  The tutorial will cover building the ListView from scratch (part 1) and then building [...]

Using AlarmManager to Schedule Activities on Android

Sometimes, it may be necessary for your android app to complete a task sometime in the future.  In order to do this, you must schedule an activity (can also be a service) to be run using Android’s AlarmManager.  This post will show: How to set up a receiver for the scheduled event How to create [...]

Software Patterns in Web Development

Over the last couple of years I have witnessed thrown together php code that is impossible to understand what is going on without spending hours reading through the code.  I get same response is given every time I ask why not separate into more readable and maintainable way: “It doesn’t matter as long as it [...]

The Power of Extension Methods in C#

So one of the most underrated and unknown features of C# is what is know as Extension Methods.  “Extension methods enable you to “add” methods to existing types without creating a new derived type, recompiling, or otherwise modifying the original type,” straight from MSDN.  The following post will describe what these extension methods are, how [...]

1000 Downloads!

The Ad-Supported Wine and Food app has just reached 1000 downloads, and it only took 12 days! I am extremely excited with this new milestone and look forward to the upcoming weeks to see just how many downloads this app will get. I am currently working on a new version that will allow users to [...]

Apple iPad Success? Really?

I cannot believe the amount of success the iPad has seen in the amount pre-orders.  It makes me believe that Apple can do no wrong and the Apple “Fan Boys” will always buy a product just to say they have an Apple product.  I would like to see some stats relating to the amount of [...]

RIT48 Results

Over the past weekend, a couple of friends and I participated in a web startup competition.  The rules of the competition were to have a company up and running within a 48 hour span (in reality, it was only a 33 hour span).  There were 10 teams within the competition, each with their own unique [...]

Updated Wine and Food Pairing App

Based off of some feedback, people wanted the reverse.  The new release provides a whole new interface to select a wine, instead of a food, which then will pair with foods. Another big reason for the new version was to allow people with Android 1.6 and up to download and install.  I originally had it [...]

Wine and Food Pairing Used over 1000 times

The app has grown faster than expected. It has just been used for the 1000th time. Here are some of the other stats on the number of downloads separated by time frame (google only updates Android Market stats twice a day): 3/13/2010 AM – 121 Total Downloads, 119 had it still installed (98%) 3/13/2010 PM [...]