Android Tutorial – Clickable Widgets

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Jul 122010
 
Android Tutorial - Clickable Widgets

Another quick Android tutorial. I couldn’t find an easy or correct method of launching a browser when you click on a homescreen widget. Well, here it is…

public class clickWidget extends AppWidgetProvider
{
@Override
public void onUpdate( Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int appWidgetIds )
{
RemoteViews remoteViews =
new RemoteViews( context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget );
remoteViews.setImageViewResource(R.id.ImageView01, drawableResourse);

ComponentName myWidget …

 Posted by Terence Eden at 11:09  Tagged with: , , , , ,

Browser Statistics of 10 Downing Street

 politics  8 Responses »
Oct 022009
 
Browser Statistics of 10 Downing Street

It’s really difficult cutting through the hype to see which browsers one should support when designing a website. There are many different measures of popularity – but many sites are only visited by techies, or only ever visited when at work, or are skewed towards the young or the old.

Yesterday morning I asked …

 Posted by Terence Eden at 11:58  Tagged with: , , ,

Review: Opera Mini 5 Beta – BlackBerry

 mobile, usability  No Responses »
Sep 172009
 
Review: Opera Mini 5 Beta - BlackBerry

(Disclaimer, I work for Vodafone Group who do a lot of work with Opera. These are my personal views.)

The regular BlackBerry browser is… how can I put this politely… sub-optimal. For reading mobile-friendly sites it’s perfectly adequate – but for anything more complex it tends to choke.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s “good enough” …

 Posted by Terence Eden at 16:14  Tagged with: , ,
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