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Animations add some spice to our Android applications and the offered animation framework makes it easy to create custom animations and tweens. So lets dance around and create some animations ;) .. About There are two ways to create animations – via XML declaration or in a Java class. We’re going to focus on XML declaration – if you’re interested in java based declaration – take a look at the Android JavaDocs and the subclasses of android.view.animation.Animation. ...

It is possible to create SOAP webservices with only a few lines of code using the JAX-WS annotations. In a productivity environment you might prefer using contract-first instead of code-first to create your webservice but for now we’re going to use the fast method and that means code-first and annotations olé! Creating the SOAP Service Create a class SampleService with two public methods Annotate this class with @WebService (javax.jws.WebService) – now all public methods of this class are exported for our SOAP service To change the name of an exported method, annotate the method with @WebMethod(operationName = “theDesiredName”) (javax.jws.WebMethod) Finally the service class could look like this package com.hascode.tutorial.soap; import javax.jws.WebMethod; import javax.jws.WebService; @WebService public class SampleService { @WebMethod(operationName = "getInfo") public String getInformation() { return "hasCode.com"; } public String doubleString(String inString) { return inString + inString; } } ...

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 .. Prerequisites Java 6 JDK App Inventors Extras Software A Google App Inventor Beta Account – request one here What we are going to build We are building a simple GUI with a Textbox and a button A click on the button starts an event that queries the acceleration sensor for coordinates If the sensor is active and enabled then the coordinates are displayed in the text box ...

In this tutorial we will take a look at the development of a simple OSGi Web Application and what tools can save us some time. The Maven Bundle Plugin makes our life much easier here as does the OSGi Bundle Repository that offers some nice bundles – in our case the servlet API and an embedded Jetty web server. So lets develop some bundles .. Prerequisites You are going to need a JDK (>=5), Maven2, the Apache Felix OSGi implementation and and text editor/http://eclipse.org/[IDE] of your choice. ...

Since Confluence 3.2. there is a new plugin module type that allows you to deploy templates in a bundle via the plugin API. In addition it is possible to assign these templates to specific spaces and preview available templates in the Confluence administration area. So let’s build some sample templates.. Creating a Template Bundle Plugin Creating a template bundle is easy – just create a class implementing TemplatePackage – there are two methods: one returns a list of bundled PageTemplate Objects the other the name for the template bundle. ...

Protocol Buffers are a serialization format developed by Google- you might ask if another IDL is really needed here – is Google barking at the wrong tree? But protocol buffers offer some advantages over data serialization via XML or JSON – Google says they (compared to XML).. are 3 to 10 times smaller are 20 to 100 times faster provide generated data access classes for programmatic use provide backward compatibility ...

In this short tutorial we are going to build a Java Server Faces Web-Application using JSF2.0, Facelets, Maven and Hibernate as ORM Mapper. The goals for this first step are: Setting up the project structure using Maven, defining a frame template/decorator and a registration facelet, creating a managed bean and mapping it’s values to the facelet, adding some basic validation, displaying validation errors and finally adding a navigation structure. In step2 of this tutorial we are going to add persistence using Hibernate, add some security, create a custom UI component and add some AJAX. ...

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. Example Application Create a new Android Project using ADT and your IDE with a package named com.hascode.android.location_app Add the permissions needed to the AndroidManifest.xml – it should look like this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.hascode.android.location_app" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0"> <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name"> <activity android:name=".LocationActivity" android:label="@string/app_name"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> </application> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"></uses-permission> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"></uses-permission> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION_EXTRA_COMMANDS"></uses-permission> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION"></uses-permission> </manifest> ...

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.. Overview An extractor allows the developer to add new fields to the lucene search index. Creating a new extractor is quite simple – just implement the interface com.atlassian.bonnie.search.Extractor or bucket.search.lucene.extractor.BaseAttachmentContentExtractor if you want to build a new file extractor. ...

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. Creating a gesture library First you need to define the gestures that should be captured in the application later. For this reason there’s the GestureBuilder delivered with the Android SDK. You can find the app in the samples directory of your android sdk – e.g. <installation-directory>/android-sdk-linux_86/platforms/android-2.1/samples/GestureBuilder. ...