Android Wheel Widget
This is a simple widget I created as part of the Aviary Editor SDK for Android. It creates a wheel-like widet which can be scrolled in both directions. The idea was to replace the default slider...
View ArticlepurePDF moved to github
As you may have noticed I’m not working with flash and actionscript anymore. However I still receive some requests regarding the purePDF library I published, well I don’t remember when exactly By the...
View ArticleObtain styleable fields at runtime
Ususally, when we want to get some “R” attributes at runtime, we use the Resources getIdentifier method, which is useful for getting strings, drawables and ids at runtime. Unfortunately this method...
View ArticleForking Picasso
Recently I started using this nice library, Picasso, for my Android projects. Basically it’s a library which allows you to load any type of images (local or remote, assets or resources) asynchronously...
View ArticleMore Picasso changes
I recently added more changes to my forked version of the Picasso library. Delay Added withDelay(long ms) method in the RequestCreator class. Basically it will delay the load of the passed resource by...
View Articlejava.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError workaround
If you ever worked with native shared libraries in Android you’ve probably already faced the “java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError” java exception which randomly seems to happen on certain devices ( actually...
View ArticleFloating Action Menu for Android
I’ve just created this simple Android library, inspired from the recent changes to the Google+ app, which introduced a floating action item to the bottom. In G+ the action item appears and disappears...
View ArticleAndroid – Create a Vignette effect
Let’s say you want to want to dynamically apply a “vignette” on an ImageView. Something like this: These are basically 4 steps we need in order to accomplish the task: Create a Paint using the...
View ArticleWhy it’s hard to find Android developers
I’m an Android developer (at Aviary) and a New Yorker since late 2010. I’ve been also an actionscript and python developer for more than 10 years. I hear this every day. Your New York based company is...
View ArticlePhotoshop Extension: Opacity Editor
Today I’d like to introduce an extension I’ve created for Adobe Photoshop: Opacity Editor. I like to take pictures, ok, I’m definitely not a professional photographer, but I still like to try to be one...
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