One of the problems of larger Project is the dependency management. A great help here is Maven. Maven can also be used in Android development so that both server and mobile client can use the same build and dependency management. In one of our Project we used this set-up.... READ MORE

Business Object Für ein Kunden Projekt haben wir eine neues Konzept für den Datenbankzugriff unter Android ausprobiert: Non-Mutable-Entities. Non-Mutable-Objects sind ja an sich nichts neues, java.lang.String, java.lang.Double, java.lang.Date sind Beispiele für bekannte... READ MORE

Dies Swissparking App ist nun auch für Android erhältlich! Beschreibung: Swissparking zeigt die aktuell freien Parkplätze von Schweizer Parkhäusern. Im Moment werden die Städte Zürich und Basel unterstützt. In Zukunft sollen noch weitere Städte folgen. Swissparking zeigt noch... READ MORE

At Google I/O 2011, Google announced the Android Accessory API, along with the Arduino-based Accessory Development Kit (also known as ADK). The Android Accessory API specifies how an accessory should announce its presence to the Android device, and how to establish a... READ MORE

Swissparking ist eine mobile app für Windows Phone 7. Sie wird verwendet um die Gesamtzahl der freien Parkplätze aller Parkhäuser in den Städten Zürich und Basel zu finden. Ausserdem werden für das jeweils ausgewählte Parkhaus Informationen wie: geographische Koordinaten,... READ MORE

The bash is probably the most used unix shell nowadays. It is a very powerful tool and can speed up your work massively if used wisely. The bash manual page is good read from time to time since it holds lots of gems that aren’t known by many bash users. The following list... READ MORE

Continuous integration (CI) is a proven method for improving software quality and reducing time and cost of software projects. Jenkins, the leading open source CI server, is a popular choice to achieve a continuous build of many different kinds of projects. Equally important for... READ MORE

Joerg Pleumann, Noser’s Head of Android Development, has scored yet another article in JavaSpektrum magazine. This one is a follow-up to his 2010 article on the Dalvik Virtual Machine, and it explains the Android Core Java Libraries in detail, also comparing them to a standard... READ MORE

Joerg Pleumann, Noser’s Head of Android Development, has scored yet another article in JavaSpektrum magazine. This one is a follow-up to his 2010 article on the Dalvik Virtual Machine, and it explains the Android Core Java Libraries in detail, also comparing them to a... READ MORE