Native- and Mobile Web Apps
As a native apps developer since 2008, I have seen time and time again the wish to develop everything with one toolset. Most often, the toolset of choice is the web, or HTML, CSS and…
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Virtual Reality Experience with Google Daydream VR
Virtual Reality is a hot topic these days. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to test an Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers. PlayStation VR and HTC Vive have also been released lately. Android Developers like…
Implement a turn based game AI (on Android)
Game AI Developing a game AI can be as much fun as playing, especially when creating your own computer opponent. I am going to present you a simple pattern that works for nearly all turn based game…
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…
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…
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…
Android: Deploying multiple targets from one project (outdated)
Update: This way of deploying multiple targets is considered outdated.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…