Lend a hand! @ NYC BigApps 3.0

01 June 2012 by Tonči Damjanić, 01.6.2012 11:43

Lend a handWe recently accepted the NYC BigApps 3.0 challenge organized by the City of New York and applied for its competition. The challenge was to enhance New Yorkers’ everyday life by finding a better use for city’s raw data sets available online. Our candidate on the competition was Lend a hand!, an Android application that makes it easier for people to browse open volunteering positions throughout the city and apply to them.

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Cross-platform javascript touch scrolling

18 November 2011 by Matija Šmalcelj, 18.11.2011 12:59

Currently CSS position:fixed property is only partially supported on mobile devices. iOS below version 5 doesn’t support it at all and Android is plagued by fragmentation hell. To solve these problems developers created libraries for JavaScript scrolling powered by CSS3 transitions. We recently wrote from scratch cross-platform mobile web site which uses a combination of native scroll and multiple touch scroll libraries depending on device. In this post I’d like to share our experiences..

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Facebook SDK for Android meets link sharing (and querying)

24 May 2011 by Ivan Ferdelja, 24.5.2011 10:31

Facebook SDK for Android does a pretty good job of providing Facebook support for your app. However, SDK doesen’t give you a direct way to do stuff that web users find trivial. Link sharing and link querying being two of them.

Sharing a link actually means posting a link to your wall. Keep in mind that posting a link is different from posting a status with a link attached. Posting a link brings much more value then just attaching it to a wall post, key value being the link statistics. Some of the statistics gathered for a shared link (available via Facebook Query Language) are the number of times someone shared a link, liked a link, commented on a link, etc.
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Targeting High Screen Densities with CSS Media Queries

28 April 2011 by Saša Branković, 28.4.2011 10:16

The future is here – more and more handhelds are being built with high definition screens. The iPhone ships the Retina display, while on the Android (as of August 02, 2010) HDPI accounts for more than 50% devices.

To web developers, there is clearly a need to build high density compatible web sites.
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First impressions of new Android phone, HTC Hero

02 December 2009 by kalabic, 02.12.2009 02:41

HTC HeroHTC Hero is my first Android phone and I’m using it for a month now. First minute impressions were very good and that is mostly because of its user-interface, the latest version of HTC Sense™ and applications that are bundled with it. Looking from the outside, device itself looks very nice but still not that elegant like an iPhone:

  • Front side has a trackball and six buttons (‘Call’, ‘Home’, ‘Menu’, ‘End call’/’Lock screen’, ‘Search’ and ‘Back’). This makes it look a bit geeky with too many hardware buttons in my opinion. Some other Android devices have just three of them (‘Menu’, ‘Home’ and ‘Back’).
  • Up top there’s a 3.5mm headphones socket and at the base it has the ExtUSB port which is compatible with standard mini-USB. No complains here. And yes, it will recharge the battery when connected to computer with USB cable.
  • Left side has volume controls and on the back there’s the 5-megapixel autofocus camera. There’s no flash and no dedicated camera button.
  • To access microSD card it is necessary to remove back cover.

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