Auf der 12. droidcon Berlin fanden sich die führenden Android-Experten der Branche vom 20. bis 22. Oktober 2021 zusammen. Die drei Konferenztage waren mit 30- bis 60-minütigen Vorträgen gefüllt. Im Folgenden beschreiben wir unsere Erfahrungen zu den Talks und abschließend ein Fazit, welche Erkenntnisse und Inspirationen wir von der Konferenz mitnehmen konnten.

We are developing Apps for Android and one important aspect of our pipeline is automated device testing using Espresso. My co-worker recently had to debug an Android test that would fail on only one of our various devices.

This post is bit of a follow up to my last post on how to build an app for multiple environments and local development using build types and product flavors. We…

Different build types in android can be used to build the same application with different configurations. This can be predefined config values like ‘debuggable’, but you can also define your…

In my previous post, I showed you the basic setup for android with maven using the android-maven-plugin. Now I’ll show you how to configure it to make releases with maven,…

Building and managing Android projects with maven is not as easy as it could be. So in this blog, I’ll show you how we managed to get it work nicely.…

We had a case in an internal app, where on Phones only the Portrait mode should be possible and on Tablets only the Landscape mode. So I googled a bit…

Within the scope of some Android R&D I took a look at Google’s Cloud Message Service, GCM. Well, the starter guide at http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/gs.html is almost all you need to get started,…

In today’s tutorial I’d like to show you how to implement a ListView, that only displays a limited number of entries. With a button at the end of the list,…

Dieses Jahr hatte unsere Mobile Developer Reisegruppe das Glück die MDC 2012 quasi vor der Haustüre, nämlich in Stuttgart, vorzufinden. Das machte den Besuch natürlich noch viel reizvoller. Darüber hinaus…

In a recent project I encountered a problem with SQLite on android 2.1. On later versions, my code worked perfectly, but on 2.1 it crashed every time when trying to…

In my last project I needed to implement a ListView with rounded corners, because the app had to be supplied for Android and iPhone and they needed to look somewhat…

For an upcoming, probably large mobile project, I was asked to look at the current situation on mobile multiplatform frameworks that cover at least Android and iOS and provide access…

When prototyping Android activities with a lot of view elements, the onCreate method can quickly become cluttered. Setup code that simply retrieves the views from the declarative layout (by using…

Today we are proud to present our own very first App (it’s actually our second Android App) that made it to the App Store and Android Market – I think…

It has been a while since my last update on our efforts over at the mobile solutions blog. The most important announcement was without any doubt the imminent release of…

During the process of developing I think I spider we discovered various problems regarding Android’s different resolutions. Here you can see which problems we encountered and how we solved them:…

In the previous part of this series we took a look on how to develop mobile applications with plain HTML, CSS & JavaScript (furthermore refered to as the web stack). A…

Once in a while a demand for fast development of a mobile application for several platforms at once comes up. Your team of developers might be small or knowledge about…

Our little pet project “I think I spider” is almost ready to be thrown out into the wild! That means we are running a closed beta for iOS devices for…

We are working on a fair number of Apps here at our mobile team and today we are proud to announce one of them: I think I spider! The “I…

There’s a lot going on over at the mobile solutions blog, so in case you are not subscribed to our feed, which I hope you are, you can grab it…

Dealing with self-signed ssl certificates is a real pain, because it’s not that simple to add them in your app and let android accept them. But fortunately, there’s a workaround…

After you got the route from wherever, you probably want to draw it on a MapView. But how to do it? That’s what I will show you now. Create a…

Complementary to Sebastian’s posts about how to navigate with the MapView and how to add customized overlays to it, I want to show you, how you display the route between…

Now that SynyxSudoku has been on the market a little while, I want to tell a little about what kind of measurements we took to optimize the performance of it.…

FroYo (Frozen Yoghurt) is the name Google gave its new Android 2.2 Release. FroYo is like each previous version a mixture between API Changes, new Userfeatures and some new cool…

First of all, I was quite surprised as i saw that 70% of the SynyxSudoku users that uploaded their highscores have also agreed to send us their device specific data,…

There were a few little things that had to be changed on SynyxSudoku after the release, so today we uploaded an update to the version 1.02. Here’s a quick changelog:…

In my last post about Google Maps on Android I showed you how to use the basic navigation features of google maps, like moving the map to a defined area…

Integrating a google map on android is quiet simple – how to do this basically is shown in the tutorial on the android developer site. Showing the map itself is…

We are proud to announce, that our sudoku app, “SynyxSudoku” is now available on the android store. And best of all: It’s completely free of charge ! (except for your traffic costs,…

Here’s a quick preview of our upcoming sudoku app on android: [youtube S_wjWf7V660] The layout has yet to be polished a little, but altogether the app is nearly finished.

This is the inception of Synyx Mobile Solutions. In the near future we’ll blog here about a wide range of topics in the mobile space. No matter if it’s Google’s…