Monthly Archive: November 2010

Nov
12

Android 2.2.1 – No Release Notes, No Install

When Android 2.2.1 was pushed to my Nexus One I was reluctant to install it immediately. So I googled for release notes and found none. This did nothing to soothe my (perhaps irrational) concern that I was upgrading to an unknown quantity. Eventually I upgraded and of course there were no dramas. My curiosity however …

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Nov
12

Writing a simple Android widget

A widget in Android is something that sits on the home screen and does something more than just allow you to start an application. Android ships with some built-in widgets and many applications provide widgets of their own. In this post, and its associated download, I aim to demonstrate that widgets can actually achieve a …

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Nov
10

Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts

Being a regular Eclipse user I’ve been somewhat slow to learn all of the really useful keyboard shortcuts. Hunting around for a cheat sheet the only one I can find is this one from the Eclipse-Tools project on sourceforge. The only downside to this fairly comprehensive cheat sheet is that it appears not to have …

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