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Android: Centering text between two other Views

Written on August 3, 2011 by Donn in Uncategorized

In this post I’ll show you how two use the layout_weight attribute in a LinearLayout to force an item so act as a “spring loaded view”. A picture is worth a thousand words. Assume you have some dynamic text such as city name and your name. You need to display your name on the left…

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Android: Rounded Corners with a Bevel/Drop Shadow

Written on August 1, 2011 by Donn in Uncategorized

Sometimes in Android you want to add a little depth and personality to your android layouts. A basic layout is rectangle with square corners and is quite ugly. I’m going to show you how to create this:

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Barcode Market Research

Written on July 14, 2011 by Donn in Startup

I’m looking for companies (and people) who need access to barcode data. This could be for data feeds, barcode scanning and data retrieval via the cloud. For example: Your mobile app scans the barcode, you contact a service and get data back about the barcode such as manufacturer, nutritional data, pictures, urls where to purchase…

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Retaining and Acquiring Talent in the Face of Rising (Energy) Costs

Written on June 28, 2011 by Donn in Mobile, Productivity

This post/article came out of frustration of working at various engagements over the course of my career. From full time gigs to on site consulting to my current position(s) – a) Building my startups (Qonqr, AgileMedicine, Barcodes.io, etc) and b) Remote consulting with very infrequent in person face to face meetings. I decided years ago…

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Trusting Android Certificates, Part Duex

Written on June 13, 2011 by Donn in Mobile

This post is a follow up to CrazyBob’s great post on the same subject. A big thanks to him for posting it as it helped me and my team get to our final result of getting Android to communicate with a custom CA (Thawte in this case). The Original Problem In short, I was getting…

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