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The Android SDK offers a nice API to receive information about available providers for location based services and get the current location and coordinates.
In this short tutorial we’re going to build a small activity that displays a list of available location providers and shows the current position using GPS services.
Developing plugins for the Confluence Wiki a developer sometimes needs to save additional metadata to a page object using Bandana or the ContentPropertyManager. Wouldn’t it be nice if this metadata was available in the built-in Lucene index?
That is were the Confluence Extractor Module comes into play..
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.
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.
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.
Sound recording and playback is really simple using the MediaRecorder and MediaPlayer classes .. see the example below ..
