It has been three months since I released Critters to the Android Market. Since that time, I have come across a number of serious market problems that Google needs to address: Inability to respond to user comments and ratings. This month, Critters received its first one star rating. This came as quite a shock as all [...]
Recently I needed to add a date picker dialog to a form I was designing. It was pretty straight forward, an EditText with an adjacent button to trigger a DatePickerDialog to quickly select a date. The following is an example from my project. I create a managed date picker dialog that is set to the [...]
Critters has been updated and includes the following new functionality and enhancements: New – Pet list with thumbnail photos New – Pet list filtering New – Veterinarian search via Google Maps application New – Save custom veterinarian search terms New – User stories added to unit tests Enhancement – Owner list thumbnail photos Enhancement – [...]
The first source code drop for Critters is available for download. The application is feature complete for the management of pet owners. Unit and functional tests have been completed and included in this release. Don’t laugh too hard while you are reviewing the source. This is the first project I have done in Android and [...]
This month I was researching ways to implement data access for my Android project. I found an interesting tutorial posted by Java Padawan available here. The author presents what is a “sort-of” ActiveRecord data model for Android. I really liked the idea and implemented my own version for use in my project. Today’s article covers [...]
Today’s article will cover a quick and dirty approach to form validation for Android applications. My application has an activity that displays a form to the user for entering personal information. This information is then stored in a SQLite database. I needed a way to validate the data in the form’s widgets before saving that [...]
While working on my first Android project, I ran into an interesting problem; how to add an icon to the window title of my application’s about dialog. My search for a solution only led to others asking this same question without any answers. Here is my solution to the problem in the hope that it [...]
I discovered a strange little problem the other day. I just completed my install of ThoughtWorks Cruise on a server running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. In case you haven’t heard of it, Cruise is a continuous integration and release management system. Everything appeared to be running correctly; so I proceeded to setup a pipeline for an [...]
Recently I have been spending time creating a batch application for SQL Server Reporting Services. During the day, I work for a third-party administrator (TPA). Part of the business involves the payment of medical, vision and dental claims on the behalf of our clients. Periodically we need to print the check registers on the accounts [...]
Really nothing to post on except my increasing level of frustration with Rails security plug-ins and my domain model. This shouldn’t be that difficult given: There are multiple clinical facilities Users can belong to more than one facility Users can have different roles at each facility The application supports an HTML interface as well as [...]