Frustrated with the relatively lack of flexibility of Android TabActivity layouts? Try ViewFlipper!
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Using ViewFlipper to make custom Android tabs
Android Developer Conference, March 7-9, San Francisco
So the first Android Developer Conference, called AnDevCon has been announced and it’s taking place in San Francisco in early March.
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Android Game promotion
A special Winter Sale on Sudoku Way – the Tetris meet Sudoku game for Android, reduced to £0.99 (normal price £1.29) until 17th February! There is a free Lite version so you can try before you buy 
Are you excited about the newly announced Amazon Android app store?
First, there was Android Market. Then independent smaller app stores, such as AppBrain, Handster and quite a few others. Now, Amazon is launching its own Android app store. Is this a good thing or does it mean more fragmentation of the market and more work for devs when publishing a new app? Are you excited about what could be a new major Android store or are you happy just getting your apps from Google Market?
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IBM predictions – dreams or reality?
Last week, IBM released its annual Next 5 in 5 report, predicting the technology we could have in five years. The list reads like a dream…
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GUI tools for Lisp
Having recently understood the power of Lisp thanks to reading The Nature Of Lisp and then working my way through the early chapters of Practical Common Lisp (by Peter Seibel, also author of the excellent Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
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Programming Conferences Calendar
It’s often difficult to keep track of programming conferences and there doesn’t seem to be a reliable website that lists them all, however I have found the following websites useful:
Linux Magazine Events Calendar
Yo Linux Seminars, Technology Conferences, Trade Shows, Exhibitions and Symposiums
DevTownStation
What resources do you use to keep track of potentially interesting conferences for devs?
Create an Application class in Google Android
Up until a few months ago, I never created an Application class in Android because I didn’t see the need, after all Android manages all that, right? Then I realised I had a lot of duplicated code in my onCreate() methods for my Activities.
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Happy 2011 from Google… not!
From time to time, Google adjusts the download statistics in the Android Market Console down, apparently due to over-estimates. This normally happens randomly a few times a year so isn’t it ironic that it happened last night? Is Google trying to tell us devs something?