My app on the Android market

Months ago, I published a small app on the Android market, it’s called “Height Converter”. What the app does is that it takes a length, in metric units, and converts it to imperial, and vice versa. It works on any device running Android 1.6 and up. I have only tested it on 1.6, 2.2 and 2.3, but it should work […]

OAuth

Recently, I started writing a twitter app for Android, nothing big, just something to practice making apps with. That requires some knowledge with OAuth, which twitter, among other websites, uses for authentication. What differentiates OAuth from the regular path of authentication – using a username and a password – is that the app does not have access to your login […]

Android app development

Sorry for the long hiatus, but I was really focused on Android these past couple of months, so I had nothing useful to write about. I do now, so here it is. I started with the Android developers website. While it’s really good, and you’ll still spend a lot of time reading the content there, it’s not really beginner-friendly. The […]