Having just returned from the Atlassian Camp 2012 I just toyed around with Java and Scala and wanted to share the following snippet that demonstrates how to mix code from both languages in a Maven project using the maven-scala-plugin.

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Today we’re going to take a look at Google’s App Inventor feature that offers programming-novices a nice possibility to enter the fabulous world of Android App programming without deeper knowledge of the API or complex SDK installations.

So lets build some stuff ..

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The integration of gestures into your android app adds some nice functionality and is made very easy using Google’s GestureBuilder application and the integrated GestureLibrary and Gesture Overlay API – so let’s build a sample app.

If you need some basic information regarding gestures on android first – take a look at this article.

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Sometimes QR codes are a nice way to distribute information like calendar events, contact information, e-mail, geo-locations or internet addresses.

In the following article we’re going to encode information to QR code images using the ZXing library and afterwards decode information from a given QR code.

Finally we’re taking a look on online QR code generators and how to integrate the ZXing library in a Maven project.

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Sometimes one needs to look up license details of a running Confluence system .. perhaps for creating a commercial plugin or to display recommendations dependant from the license used. For this reason there are a few possibilities for receiving some license information from the Confluence API or the velocity context.

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