Monthly Archive for August, 2010

Maven and Android in Barcelona

Published on 2010/08/30 in Android, Apache Maven, Maven Android Plugin, Maven Android SDK Deployer and Presentation. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Just a quick heads up that I will be presenting about Apache Maven usage for Android development in an updated version from my Vancouver presentation at the Google Technology User Group in Barcelona, Spain on the 10th of September. I look forward to the event and will let you know here how things went ;-)

Later..

I just came back from the presentation and uploaded the presentation file now (Maven Android Introduction GTUG Barcelona). The rest of the resources is available as part of the Maven Android Plugin Samples and the Roboguice project. The meeting itself was fun. There were over 30 other geeks in attendance and the presentation was regularly interrupted with laughter and questions, so I assume it was well received. I hope everyone learned a bit and will give Maven and Android a spin and send us some feedback.

Referential integrity with sqlite on Android the lazy way

Published on 2010/08/20 in Android and Java Development. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

AndroidAs you all know the main supported persistence mechanism on Android is storing data in the extremely widespread embedded database SQLite. Now when you look around various books and documentation, the examples you get are most of the time are pretty trivial. When you then come from a background of full on relational database management systems like PostgreSQL, working with SQLite with have a few surprises to you. One of those surprises is that referential integrity is not a standard feature unless you have some tricks up your sleave.. Continue reading ‘Referential integrity with sqlite on Android the lazy way’