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Android

I have always wanted to a start a series on Android, noting that I have now spent over 3yrs working on Android, mainly at the application level (what you touch and play with on the device) and at times at the middleware level (drivers and codecs, that runs without your knowledge in the background). So, [...]

March 30, 2011  Tags: ,  Posted in: Android, Mobile, Technology   No Comments

CodeMirror port for Google Web Toolkit

I had been hunting for a good web based code editor when I came across CodeMirror at http://www.codemirror.net. Great project and a lot of hard and smart work indeed. I am a great fan of GWT and try to move anything and everything that comes my way to GWT The result is gCodeMirror project at [...]

November 25, 2010  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Frameworks, GWT, Technology, Web 2.0   One Comment

Google App Engine and GWT – Multi-Project Application

While working with Google Web Toolkit (GWT), it is a very common scenario to split the main application into multiple sub-projects and then use IDE to do a combined build and compile. However, the problem arises in scenarios where the GWT-RPC services and their implementations are kept in separate projects. Recently working on an application, [...]

October 28, 2010  Tags: , ,  Posted in: GWT, Google App Engine, Technology, Web   2 Comments

Google App Engine – Dealing with large number of files

One of the most common problem that one has to deal while deploying a large scale application at Google App Engine is the file limit – in terms of number of files. As per the issue reported at http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=161, the limit has been increased from 1000 to 3000, but there’s catch. Any static file (non-JSP [...]

October 21, 2010  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: GWT, Google App Engine, SmartGWT   One Comment

Android MVC – Forward and Backward Navigation

This weekend’s changes to the Android MVC project include the following: Reorganization of the Command classes. AbstractBaseCommand has been created for simple get/set. All methods except “execute” have been implemented. This class now forms the base for IdentityCommand as well as AbstractCommand. Controller now has full support for forward as well as backward navigation. Controller [...]

August 29, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,  Posted in: Technology   16 Comments