Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Android meets EJB server

In this post I’ll try to explain how to communicate between an Android client and an EJB-service-based server.
The application I’m working on is a simple whiteboard, which allows a group of users to draw basic shapes on a canvas.

My mission today is enabling my client to read a simple string from the server. In the next post I’ll explain how to pass serialized objects.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Android: Sliding panel

I'm a programmer.
I'm a Java programmer.
I'm a programmer experiencing Android for the first time. I became addicted.


When I first went to design UI for an Android application, I realized very quickly a basic thing: The screen is small.
I put aside old habits, and focused on the following three points:

  • Simplicity
  • Movement space
  • Full functionality (as possible)