Blog Posts by Dwayne
Google IO kicked off yesterday with the keynote at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The keynote is always an exciting event with the big names on center stage filling your ears with all the great new and upcoming tech. While this years keynote steered away from hardware and more specifically Key-lime Pie, it was till jam
If you haven’t been living under a tech rock for the last couple of weeks you’ve probably heard about Facebook Home, a launcher for Android centered completely around Facebook. Facebook home was officially announced a few weeks ago with US release late last week. While I’m not usually a fan of Facebook I did find
I was lucky enough to score myself a last minute ticket to Google IO for the second year in a row which, as anybody who put their hat in the ring for a ticket knows, was an extremely frustrating experience. Soon after I shouted the good news from the roof top (yeah I’m like that) I
Recently I had a project design which required borders around each image displayed. To avoid overdraw I used a 9-patch image resource with a transparent center in which the image would be placed. This would theoretically avoiding overdraw completely. So after a quick session in photoshop I knocked a 9-patch, turned on “Show Overdraw” on my
If you’ve ever used Carbon for Twitter you’ve probably noticed that it incorporates a few interesting 3D effects on lists throughout the app. It’s very similar to the effects used in the app drawer on Honeycomb and above when you try to scroll past the first and last page. As complex as this effect looks
I have to admit, when I heard the news that the next Nexus branded phone was going to be be coming from LG I was pretty quick to dismiss it. The last LG phone I had was an old horrible plastic flip phone from Telstra with little to no functionality. Even taking calls was a
Mostly manual sideloading of apps can be avoided by uploading the target app to an ftp server or file server and downloading using the Emulator browser. There are however some special cases where the app can not be downloaded, usually due to corporate firewalls. Manually sideloading does require a few terminal/command prompt commands but is
Recently I was given the requirement of displaying relative time in certain areas of the app. Relative time formatting is displaying the time since something occurred relative to the current time i.e. the event occurred 5 minutes ago. As soon as I was given the requirements the builder part of my brain kicked in and before I
After hearing about Google Plus Events at Google IO and then seeing one in action at the after party I couldn’t to take it for a road test. Every year my partner in crime Maz and I hold a large dinner party in honor of Bastille day. It’s an expensive, stressful, but grand affair that provides the eating of
The new tablet from Google isn’t an iPad killer, and it’s not meant to be. It’s priced much lower and aimed at a different market. No, this one’s going directly after Amazon and their closed version of Android. Competing against the Kindle Fire is no easy task, it’s extremely low priced and doesn’t have the