Category Archives: Android

Shiner Ben Teese to speak at YOW! Conference 2015

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Shine Technologies

Shine is super proud to announce that senior consultant Ben Teese (@benteese) will be speaking at the YOW! Conference being held in Melbourne on the 3rd and 4th of December 2015. Ben will actually be co-presenting this one with Sam Ritchie (@FakeSamRitchie), an iOS developer … Continue reading →

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YOW! Connected 2015: Conference Report

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Shine Technologies

Last week I had the privilege of attending the YOW! Connected conference in Melbourne, Australia. YOW! Connected offers a look at all the interesting things that are happening in the mobile and IoT (Internet of Things) space, from the perspective of both … Continue reading →

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Geekapalooza: My recent visit to Google I/O

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Shine Technologies

src: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105113874753230740413 Last week I had to pry myself away from my day-to-day life as a software developer and fly over the Pacific to attend Google I/O. Okay maybe I didn’t have to pry myself away – rather, it was … Continue reading →

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Testing for Android with Robotium

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Shine Technologies

Android’s built-in testing framework is lacking on a number of levels. Enter Robotium, an open-source project. Robotium connects the dots by extending Android’s testing framework and providing convenience methods to help developers rapidly create tests. In this entry I will … Continue reading →

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Easing the Pain of Android Software Fragmentation

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Shine Technologies

Software fragmentation is a common concern for Android developers. Right now, supporting all versions down to Android 2.2 (Froyo) will make your application available to 93.5% of Google Play users. However, doing so also means you miss out on APIs that were … Continue reading →

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CouchDb on Android

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Shine Technologies

Synchronising advanced data structures with a backend sucks. Especially when the sync is both ways; user updates to server, server updates to user. Couchbase for Mobile attempts to solve this issue by bringing CouchDb and it’s spiffy replication to Android.

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A Good Look at Android Location Data

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Shine Technologies

Getting started with the development of location-based services on Android is relatively easy thanks to the well documented location API. However, getting more serious shows there is still much uncharted territory. One such area concerns the accuracy of real-life location data, which … Continue reading →

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