Ottawa Android

Guest Post: Lessons Learned from Bulk Parsing and Database Insertion

Chris Saunders — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:11:14 +0000

This article originates from christophersaunders.ca I’m beginning to work on an STO application from an API that was created by Philippe Casgrain. The data was stored in a pretty big JSON file, and I decided that instead of breaking it … Continue reading

Droidhack – OpenData Ottawa

Marc Meszaros — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:12:08 +0000

Instead of having our monthly Droidhack this month, we decided to promote the OpenData Ottawa hackfest going on this weekend on December 3rd. The concept is the same as our Droidhacks except that the goal is to use the City … Continue reading

Next Meeting: 16th of November

Marc Meszaros — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:35:16 +0000

Here is the lineup of presentations we have for this month’s meeting. AnDevCon report – Simon MacDonald QuickActions library for Android – Carson Brown PhoneGap + JS Libraries Experiences – Marc Meszaros PS: We are also looking for presentations for … Continue reading

Looking for content manager for Ottawa Android blog

Chris Saunders — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:53:15 +0000

We’d really like to get some more activity up on the blog, but we need a few more volunteers to help out. Most of the responsibilities would be to find various Android dev related posts and simply share them on … Continue reading

Android AOSP Source Plugin

Chris Saunders — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:48:30 +0000

This article shows how to install the AOSP Source plugin for eclipse so when you are working with the Android API you can actually view the contents of various functions to get a better understanding of what’s going on under … Continue reading

Next Meeting: 19th of October

Marc Meszaros — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:14:32 +0000

We are still looking for presentations, so feel free to get in contact with us or send us a message on the mailing list. Christopher Saunders - mobile web app development

Speed up your testing with Virtual Box!

Chris Saunders — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:02:26 +0000

Check out this blog post for more details on How to speed up the Android Emulator by up to 400%

Droidhack – PhoneGap Android Plugins

simon.macdonald — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:22:33 +0000

The next DROIDHACK event will be happening Saturday October 8th starting at 10am. This will be another themed hack event. Nitobi (the guys that made PhoneGap) are going to be sponsoring the event (we’ll have some t-shirts & stickers to pass … Continue reading

Next Meeting: 21st of September

Marc Meszaros — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:51:40 +0000

We are still looking for presentations, so feel free to get in contact with us or send us a message on the mailing list. Presenters can get 3 extra ballots in the free pass draw for the BlackBerry DevCon Americas … Continue reading

BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011

Marc Meszaros — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:04:14 +0000

We recently stated participating in RIM’s BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps sponsorship – RIM is thrilled to be supporting Ottawa Android Developer Group! They also wanted to let you know about an upcoming event in the developer community that we … Continue reading