My First GitHub Project!

Been sitting on this app since last year, and I've been busy with other projects and work and just haven't had the time to finish it. Also thought this was the perfect time to begin my contribution to the open source community(aside from StackOverflow). You can find it on GitHubIt's just an ambitious music player that uses a couple libraries. Nothing special. I thought this would  be a good resource for beginners to check out. However, there are a few things wrong with the current design and I tried to address them in the comments as well as below.1) Use a Bound Service instead for music playback At the time, I created a background service to handle the playback and made it a singleton, and whenever I needed to get a hold of it I'd just call Service.getInstance() from my Activity/Fragment...

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One of my current projects!

This is one of the apps I'm currently working on. It's a music player of sorts, but with a host of other cool features and one BIG underlying concept. I'm really really really passionate about designing beautiful UIs, as I think Functionality/User Interface goes hand in hand. I don't believe in building a great app with a subpar interface, because then it's not really "great". It's coming along great, learning a bunch and things are starting to pull together really nicely. Stay tuned for updates on release!:)...

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WeatherMate Pro Version 1.0.0!

Just released the initial version to WeatherMate on Google Play. I'm planning alot of improvements in the coming weeks so I hope it's received well by the users. I've tested it on Gingerbread, ICS, and JellyBean on devices ranging from an HTC Evo, Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung Nexus S, and a couple others. Also tested on the emulator to try and iron out any last minute hiccups. But, as we know..Murphy's Law always applies. Here's the feature Graphic I made in PhotoShop CS5  Google Play l...

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Working on Flight Tracking...

Setting up the flight tracking Activity that will allow users to check the status of their flights and vital flight and airport information. I'm looking into C2DM(Cloud to Device Messaging) for the push alerts, as I think this will be extremely useful. This is not the finalized UI, but a general idea of where I want to go with it. ...

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Traffic Tracking!

Finished the traffic incident tracking portion of the app. From this Activity, users can see various traffic incidents within a given bounding box of the their current location. When the user clicks on a traffic incident icon(shown in the second screenshot) then a nice little dialog pops up with some important details about that incident, they can also share the incident via Android's native share Intent. I still have to work out some kinks in the algorithm that determines the coordinates of the bounding box, but it's coming along! ...

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New Post..finally!

Wassup guuuyys! I haven't been blogging much lately. I've been sort of busy with a couple projects I'm juggling at the moment, as well as moving and so much other things. This is one of the projects I'm currently working on. It is basically a weather app, but that really caters to your travels. Flight tracking, traffic updates, weather updates, and a bunch of other cool features! I think it's really dope. One of the features that I like and really worked hard to get right was the location search. What I noticed that was lacking in other weather apps was the lack of a location search option for multiple locations with the same name. You can search via zip code, city name, IP Address, or latitude and longitude. Even the stock weather app that...

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Custom ListView with TextViews and ImageView

Tutorial 1 - Creating a custom ListView with unique style and elements In this tutorial, we're going to go over the basics of Android's ListView container and see how we can customize it so it looks a little less...well..plain. The default layout that ships with the sdk is fine. It's basically just a listed view containing text fields with a black background. You can find out more about creating a standard ListView here See photo below.  However, if you want to customize your ListView so it looks a little different and contains dynamic data..keep reading. I used this design in an app I wrote called EZ Pics Photo album, basically an easier way to sort/organize your photos on your Android device. We will build this ListView...

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