Tag Archives: android

A day at the Android Developer Lab World Tour in Zürich

A day at the Android Developer Lab World Tour in Zürich

What would you do if you had the chance to meet some fellow android developers at Google’s Europe HQ in Zürich for free? Yes, you register and go there. As did I, we. Unfortunately, someone at Google’s messed the times up, which lead to us having to depart in Stuttgart at 6am rather than 10am, [...]

qwerted status update

Wow. just wow. The last few days, I received tons of emails from people who want to beta test qwerted, have been featured on some blogs ( androidguys.com , ignore the code , mobiflip , some other languaged-blogs ), thanks to the all writers, and got a lot of motivation from the positive reactions.
There are [...]

qwerted for android has a homepage now!

I just launched www.qwerted.com, so there’s a dedicated project home for this brilliant project now. visit it, tell your friends!

iType Demo Video online – finally getting real

iType, my project, is finally getting close to release state. But talking is boring, so here is a short demo clip. If you have any questions, please write to itypeapp @ gmail.com
I am looking for beta testers, so if you want to test it, please let me know!

iType Demo Video from Moritz Haarmann on Vimeo.
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RandomAccessFile weirdness explained, no buffers, just pain.

Ola! I’ve been coding a new android keyboard lately, a project for my university degree but also : for fun. While I was doing this, specially while implementing a file-based dictionary containing frequency information of all words stored in there, I stumbled upon a very, very weird Java-behavior.
Let’s explain it. Using RandomAccessFile, you have both [...]

Android 1.5 SDK Released

Google has just today released the SDK for Android 1.5, the upcoming version. Not only is my beloved InputMethodService package finally included, but it seems that many cupcake-innovations found their way to the official SDK, which means that they are now open and free.
My planned tutorial on getting ADT for Eclipse working with cupcake is [...]

Waiting for… Android wishlist

Welcome in the middle of my night, I’m currently spending my days working, my evenings eating ( barbecue, it’s gettin’ hot in here.. ) and my nights either trying to watch my favorite TV-shows or sleeping. And if none of those shows is on, my head notices me of several thoughts, most of the time [...]

Android, building a custom Keyboard

G1 has hit the market, and since typing on a touchscreen is still a pretty unpretty thing, I decided to build my own softkeyboard. Doing so is not possible with the current SDK downloadable from the android site, but you can ( not easily.. ) build all the required libs ( mainly android.jar ) using [...]