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Multiple targets from one Android source (the better way)

Multiple targets from one Android source (the better way)

Some of you might have read my article Android: Deploying multiple targets from one project. It describes how to create customized versions of the same software and therefore benefit from multiple apps with the same featureset. That deployment with an Ant script has proven to work well. For example our GMX Mail App is available [...]

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Android AppRater

Android AppRater

The Android AppRater is a little tool in form of a source code snippet for getting better ratings in the Android Market. Its basic idea is to kindly ask users to rate your application, after they have been using it for a while. Which is a fair deal, because many users only give negative ratings [...]

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Concurrency in java (german)

The Free Lunch Is Over – that is the famous headline of an article about how the evolution of hardware alone will not solve our performance problems anymore. With the rise of multicore CPUs, software developers have to put effort into their code, to see further performance gains. Even on mobile phones, as the Tegra [...]

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Android: Deploying multiple targets from one project (outdated)

Update: This way of deploying multiple targets is considered outdated. There is a better way now. This posting is about how to create multiple versions of your Android application without cloning the whole project. For example if you want to create a full (paid) app, as well as a lite (free) version of it, you [...]

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