Mostly every application needs some kind of "about" dialog. The about dialog shows basic informations about the application, its author and most likely some copyright information, the version information and so on.

For most of the Android developers out there, this might be an obvious task. I for myself want to use this example to help some beginners to show how this can be done. Since building a "static" about dialog is quite easy, I would like to extends this example to properly load the correct version information using the PackageManager.
Continue reading "Creating a simple "About" Dialog in Android (>=1.6)"

Ok, not that I'm a blogger star. The last few months I really had not much time to work on this blog, since I was still working on many other things. Now there's more time and I'll see if I can keep this blog living.

Before I start with new articles soon (I'm moving next week), I'll give you an interesting link, to find out which programmer personality you are. Have a look at Doolwind's Game Coding Blog (which is - just to mention it - a very good and interesting blog!) and fill out the test. Post your results here!

Here's my result:

Your programmer personality type is:

DHTB

You’re a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most
important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better.
After all, time is money.

You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs
in the same way.

You work best in a Team.
A good group is better than the sum of it’s parts. The only thing better than a
genius programmer is a cohesive group of genius programmers.

You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as
freely as possible to help simplify the task. We’re not writing on paper anymore
so we can take up as much room as we need.

See you soon!