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The hands on lab for this Wednesdays Build and Android app class are now online at GitHub. Download them here. Download Details Below are some details about the downloads that you'll find on the HDC10 GitHub page. HDC10 Hands on Lab This is the master code for the final HDC10 application. This application contains extra…

Next Week I'll be at the Heartland Developers conference with a bunch of other great presenters and colleagues. Develop an Android Application With Me On Wednesday I'll be teaching a 4 hour lab on How to develop an Android Application. Sign up soon, as there are only a few tickets left for this class! The…

This tip comes to you from my blog, but the hat-tip goes to Andres Nelson whom I work with at my current client who actually showed me how to do this. The Scenario You have a grid with multiple fields. These fields are dependent upon each other. If one field is empty, then the other…

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I run all of my work in a virtual environment. Back in 2009 when Hanselman posted about the Boot-to-VHD option of Windows 7, I had it up and running by the next morning. I've not stopped using it since. My Setup I have VHD's for: Different Clients -…

I previously posted about how you could make a free and lite version of your application using the Android Library project feature inside of Eclipse. I set out to do this a few days ago with a client project that I had been working on. My development work flow went like this: Build the entire…

A full working code example of this post is located on my GitHub account here: http://github.com/donnfelker/FullAndLiteVersionSharedLibrary I'm in the process of completing an Android app for a client and they needed the ability to have full and lite versions of the same application. The lite version would be free and the full version would be…

My last post announced that I was writing a book ... so ... What does this mean for the Introduction to Android TekPub.com series? Great things actually - if you prefer to learn via reading, you can do that with the book. If you prefer to learn via video, you can do that with Tekpub.com,…

I can finally announce it, I'm writing the first official Android Application Development for Dummies book. I've been writing for awhile now and had a lot of inquiries into what I've been writing about. I'm glad to finally be able to say what I'm working on. The book is slated to be released this fall.…

I've been working by myself on all of my Android projects and just recently I need ed to expand my workforce to beyond that just myself. Therefore I needed to make my first hire for my company Agilevent. In doing so I needed to get my code over to another developers machine and I ran…

I got a hold of an extra MyTouch slide for testing and wanted to root it in order to put some a different ROM on there (namely Cyanogen). The MyTouch slide root instructions are fairly well documented and have worked for a lot of people. Unfortunately they did not work for me and I got…

Last week I released Eventdroid, the first Android based Eventbrite Bar code Scanner / Event Check-in App. With this app you can check in attendees to your Eventbrite app with your Android phone using a bar code scanner - or if you prefer to do it manually, you can check them in one by one…

We use (and love) Elmah. Due to many reasons we decided to opt for the XML file logging to AppData. This works great and is super simple to set up. The only issue is that on our test and production servers we were filling up the AppData directory and after awhile Elmah.axd would take minutes…