Open source Android clustering library

May 27, 2013 by Inteist

Great open source map clustering library by TwoToasters

Check out the video of sample application in action

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Nice sliding menu with unique color fade effect by Romain Guy

May 27, 2013 by Inteist

This nice sliding menu is supported in its full glory with API level 14. But can be degraded gracefully on earlier version of the OS too.

Tip from Romain:  use the drawing cache instead with View.setDrawingCacheEnabled.

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Google analytics sessions vs. Flurry analytics session

May 26, 2013 by Inteist

Every time a start session is called using Flurry SDK, a new session is registered unless the call was made within 20 seconds [for the same user] of the previous call, in which case these consequent sessions simply extend the existing one.

For Google Analytics, it is different. Google Analytics will group hits (any analytics API call you make is considered a hit in Google analytics) that are received within 30 minutes of one another [for the same user] into the same session.

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A useful tool to work with Android APKs

May 23, 2013 by Inteist

Here’s a nice project to be able to work with Android APK resources:

https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/

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Hex editor for Mac or any platform actually – MacVim (Vim)

May 23, 2013 by Inteist

Here’s how to use Vim as a handy HEX editor:

 

1. Open the file in Vim.
2. Run the command to convert

   :% ! xxd

3. Edit all you need (i to get into insert edit mode)
4. Once done, run to convert back

   :% ! xxd -r

5. Save (it’s :wq)

 

 

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Programming fonts

Apr 19, 2013 by Inteist

It is a matter of preference, no doubt, but most developers I know prefer monospaced fonts. So what are the best ones to be used?

Over the years, I’ve tried numerous fonts and the few that work good are Monaco, Menlo, and finally Ubuntu Mono. Menlo is a great font that comes with OS X and is used in X-Code. It is also the best font so far that I found to use with Eclipse.

I have recently tried to work with Sublime Text 2. I have used TextWrangler before but Sublime seems so much more powerful out of the box. I read somewhere that it is possible to setup TextWrangler with various plugins and extensions to make it quite powerful too, but Sublime Text comes already quite powerful out of the box and just feels more natural. TextWrangler never really felt natural to me but it was the best option I had so far as it had more options than Smultron.

So I tried Ubuntu Mono with Sublime Text but it looks almost the same as Menlo and since I am using Menlo with Eclipse already (Ubuntu Mono regular was horrible in Eclipse) I decided to keep using Menlo despite many praises towards Ubuntu Mono. But Ubuntu might be a good alternative for other OSes that do not have the Menlo bundled with it.

Happy coding!

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