Da storico utente Linux sto facendo un po’ fatica ad entrare nel mondo della mela (abbracciato per motivi puramente professionali, leggi sviluppo su piattaforma iOS). Dato che ci sarà sicuramente qualcuno come me, abituato a risolvere con un apt-get install <qualcosa>, ho deciso di riportare qualche trick particolare in maniera da (se qualcuno capitasse da … Continue Reading
Pubs/Restaurants/”places” APIs comparison
I was looking for a free service providing access to pubs/restaurants/commercial activities providing basicallylatitude,longitude and a string representing the commercial activity and this is my experience: Google Places: A LOT of places are missing! TripAdvisor: you have to fill a form and wait for their approval, based on their own criteria..I don’t think we can … Continue Reading
The Happiness Diary – 0.9.2
Hey, good news right there! The Happiness Diary is already at the version 0.9.2 with awesome new features. The most important one is that we can finally check the statistics about our friends, sorted by score or by events number! Download it for free from the Play Store right now!
Facebook Friends Monitor: 5000+ downloads
Just to notice to some rare reader, while I’m preparing my new Android app, I’m very happy to see that my first experiment in the Android world is going very well. Facebook Friends Monitor has reached the 5000+ downloads (5200 when I’m writing this post) and is growing day by day. Please have a look … Continue Reading
dlopen, dlsym & how to call a function of the libc library inside a function defined in your custom library with the same name.
(If you like articles title longer that the article itself, you’re on the right place.) As the subject of the article, here’s a brief piece of code to define a library with a function whose name is also in libc. In the example we want to call the libc time() function inside our time() function. … Continue Reading
Internationalization with PhoneGap: Solution 1
Introduction If you’re starting a new PhoneGap project, probably you’ll have to support different languages. With native apps, each platform (Android, iOS, etc…) gives you all the needed tools to handle this problem. But what if we’re using a cross-platform technology like PhoneGap? In this article I will report a step-by-step guide to achieve this … Continue Reading