This post is bit of a follow up to my last post on how to build an app for multiple environments and local development using build types and product flavors. We…

Different build types in android can be used to build the same application with different configurations. This can be predefined config values like ‘debuggable’, but you can also define your…

In my previous post, I showed you the basic setup for android with maven using the android-maven-plugin. Now I’ll show you how to configure it to make releases with maven,…

Building and managing Android projects with maven is not as easy as it could be. So in this blog, I’ll show you how we managed to get it work nicely.…

In this post, we want to show you our Liquibase setup in a larger scale project that we’ve been developing for some time now. Gather Requirements First off, a bit…

We had a case in an internal app, where on Phones only the Portrait mode should be possible and on Tablets only the Landscape mode. So I googled a bit…

Within the scope of some Android R&D I took a look at Google’s Cloud Message Service, GCM. Well, the starter guide at http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/gs.html is almost all you need to get started,…

In today’s tutorial I’d like to show you how to implement a ListView, that only displays a limited number of entries. With a button at the end of the list,…

(Fortsetzung meines Blogposts von letztem Jahr) Das dritte Jahr meiner Ausbildung bei synyx spielte sich zum Großteil in der Abteilung Code Clinic ab, in der ich etliche neue Technologien und…

In a recent project I encountered a problem with SQLite on android 2.1. On later versions, my code worked perfectly, but on 2.1 it crashed every time when trying to…

In my last project I needed to implement a ListView with rounded corners, because the app had to be supplied for Android and iPhone and they needed to look somewhat…

Ausbildungswerkzeug 1 Nach etwas mehr als 2 Jahren nehme ich mir mal die Zeit, etwas über meine Ausbildung bei Synyx zu schreiben (Und das nicht nur, weil es sonst mit…

For an upcoming, probably large mobile project, I was asked to look at the current situation on mobile multiplatform frameworks that cover at least Android and iOS and provide access…

During the process of developing I think I spider we discovered various problems regarding Android’s different resolutions. Here you can see which problems we encountered and how we solved them:…

If you need to send apple push notifications to your users, like we do in a secret project mentioned earlier this week, notnoop’s java-apns library is a good choice, because…

Dealing with self-signed ssl certificates is a real pain, because it’s not that simple to add them in your app and let android accept them. But fortunately, there’s a workaround…

After you got the route from wherever, you probably want to draw it on a MapView. But how to do it? That’s what I will show you now. Create a…

Complementary to Sebastian’s posts about how to navigate with the MapView and how to add customized overlays to it, I want to show you, how you display the route between…

Now that SynyxSudoku has been on the market a little while, I want to tell a little about what kind of measurements we took to optimize the performance of it.…

First of all, I was quite surprised as i saw that 70% of the SynyxSudoku users that uploaded their highscores have also agreed to send us their device specific data,…

There were a few little things that had to be changed on SynyxSudoku after the release, so today we uploaded an update to the version 1.02. Here’s a quick changelog:…

We are proud to announce, that our sudoku app, “SynyxSudoku” is now available on the android store. And best of all: It’s completely free of charge ! (except for your traffic costs,…

Here’s a quick preview of our upcoming sudoku app on android: [youtube S_wjWf7V660] The layout has yet to be polished a little, but altogether the app is nearly finished.