Posts Tagged ‘api’
I attended the Mobile Monday meeting “200,000 Apps – Where’s Mine” last night.
One thing that became clear is that apps don’t do a very good job of promoting themselves. One crippling problems with most app stores is that there’s no (easy) way to share an app with a friend.
Here’s some basic code for an …
Another quick Android tutorial. I couldn’t find an easy or correct method of launching a browser when you click on a homescreen widget. Well, here it is…
public class clickWidget extends AppWidgetProvider
{
@Override
public void onUpdate( Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds )
{
RemoteViews remoteViews =
new RemoteViews( context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget );
remoteViews.setImageViewResource(R.id.ImageView01, drawableResourse);
ComponentName myWidget =
…
Looking for some Twitter API help. Bit of a geeky post, this…
Pagination is the act of splitting data into logical pages. Suppose I had a list of item, numbered 0 – 99. If I want 20 items per page, it’s trivial to see that pagination looks like:
p1 = 0-19
p2 = 20-40
p3 = 41-61
p4 = 62-82
p5 …
Twitpic has implemented an OAuth API. No more having to hand out passwords to all and sundy. Only I’m too much of a dunderhead to get it working. Perhaps it’s a combination of heatstroke or this rotten head-cold, but I just can’t see what I’m doing wrong. Any help much appreciated.
The easy …
As I mentioned in my last post about VoteUK, I found the TheyWorkForYou API to be a little lacking when it came to image sizing.
I posted a request asking if there was a pattern to the image sizes and, if not, was it possible to have the sizes returned in the API.
The “standard” open source …
This is one of the longest and geekiest posts I’ve done.
It’s a work in progress.
All comments and abuse welcome.
#hashtag – As long has there has been a way to search Tweets* people have been adding information to make the easy to find. The #hashtag syntax has become the standard for attaching a succinct tag to …
What is “Implicit Knowledge”? Essentially it’s stuff that everyone knows, but no one has written down. Usually it’s something that people have worked out through their own experiences.
This sort of knowledge is common in life – but is fatal in computing and design. Take the following tweet I received.
The complaint was that …
There are many “rules” when it comes to User Interface / User Experience design. One that I try to stick to is “Don’t let users do things they can’t do.”
It’s one of my gripes with Linux. If you’re editing a configuration file, you are relying on yourself to sanity check your input – often without …
After the tragic death of Ernest Marples, I’m sorry to say that the site fell in to a bit of disrepair. With no postcode data and no new boundary data, it looked like VoteUK was going to be permanantly out of business.
Thanks – once again – to the clever-clogs at TheyWorkForYou, at least half of …
