Category Archives: Android

Please resize your designs to test if they work!

Posted on May 24, 2013 by William Woody

*sigh* I remember months ago making this rant on my Facebook account. Yet it still continues. Okay, look: if you’re laying out a user interface for Android or for iOS, remember that on iOS the minimum feature size someone’s finger … Continue reading →

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Learning to fly, and Jeppesen’s map data on Garmin is wrong.

Posted on January 20, 2013 by William Woody

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, I know. But I have a good excuse. I’ve been learning to fly. Flying is the coolest thing I’ve done in a long time. And in the past six months I’ve gone from … Continue reading →

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Come work for me at Cartifact!

Posted on October 31, 2011 by William Woody

If you are in the Los Angeles area, have a couple of years (or a few decades!) of experience writing software in Java (or heck, if you’re fresh out of school and want to sink your teeth into developing for … Continue reading →

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Drawing scaled images in Android is expensive.

Posted on July 10, 2011 by William Woody

So I wrote a custom view which displays a list of bitmaps. The way this works is to draw a grid of images by loading them from disk, then drawing those images using Canvas.drawBitmap(Bitmap, Rect, Rect, Paint). And during scrolling … Continue reading →

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UI Performance

Posted on May 24, 2011 by William Woody

I just spent the weekend rewriting an Android application for performance. When I first start learning a UI framework, be it for iOS, Android, Java Swing, GWT, MacOS, Windows, or X, the two questions I first want to answer are: … Continue reading →

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On Memory Leaks in Java and in Android.

Posted on May 15, 2011 by William Woody

Just because it’s a garbage collected language doesn’t mean you can’t leak memory or run out of it. Especially on Android where you get so little to begin with. Now of course sometimes the answer is that you just need … Continue reading →

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The things in Android that keeps tripping me up.

Posted on May 6, 2011 by William Woody

android:layout_weight When building a layout, the biggest thing that keeps going through my mind is “how do I get this object to lay itself out so it consumes only what is left in a linear layout flow?” And the answer … Continue reading →

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And then Apple changes the Rules. Again.

Posted on September 9, 2010 by William Woody

So I uploaded J2OC, and had lost interest in it. After all, who needs a second “let’s recompile Java into Objective C” in order to build iPhone and Android applications, if Apple isn’t going to allow it? Then Apple does … Continue reading →

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Something Funny Happened To Me On The Way To Release.

Posted on September 6, 2010 by William Woody

So I started playing with parsing Java class files, creating a cross compiler capable of converting Java class files into Objective C files. I even had a sufficient amount of Apache Harmony running so I could use a good part … Continue reading →

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Annoyed.

Posted on October 19, 2009 by William Woody

On Android, it appears android.graphics.Region (which is used internally for clipping against a Path) is not anti-aliased. This means if you set a clipping path that is not rectangular, such as a rounded rectangle, then the interior clipping path will … Continue reading →

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