To send a parcelable to another application for it to be deserialized it is essential that: the class definitions of the class to be serialized are identical in both apps, the packages of the classes ...Read More
OpenTopoMap renders topographic maps from OSM and SRTM data. The style is based on German government maps, with a focus on landmarks and contrasting map colors. This new FOSS Android viewer uses osmdr...Read More
Introduction The first functionality we want to implement in the Ersa Android client is some basic dashboarding. We’ll display the latest temperature and humidity readings by origin (sensor node...Read More
Introduction The core functionality of the Ersa library is all about calculating the dew point from temperature and humidity data. The dew point is used to assess environmental risks, like mold and co...Read More
Introduction The database structure needed for collecting data in our Ersa software is very uncomplicated. At this point we don’t need any authentication mechanism — we simply need to subm...Read More
A while ago my colleagues and I needed a slider control on a web dashboard. A team of students was assigned to build the entire UI, but they did not quite succeed. A third party front-end developer ev...Read More
With all these Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects in mind I am developing this gauge view for IoT apps on Android. There are some alternatives around, but I’m not quite satisfied with them as the...Read More
Roger Engelbert’s excellent tutorial on building a classic Frogger clone with libGDX appears to have gone offline. A couple of months ago I based my own clone on this. It definitely needed some ...Read More
The sliding toggle button has been modernized. It has finally been migrated to the Gradle build system and it targets recent API levels now. It has also been added to jcenter, so you can simply add it...Read More
I’m using the MPAndroidChart library (3.0.0) to represent psychometric personality test results in a radar chart (AKA spider chart or cobweb chart). Since the documentation I found on this was e...Read More
The Big Five Android app is available for testing. You are invited to join here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/de.nitri.bigfive This version of the Big Five personality traits model administers...Read More
I’m more or less skeptical about the use of personality tests. Nonetheless, it’s a nice little project for the weekend in nasty old PHP, modestly pimped on the front end with Material Desi...Read More