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Android Development: Responding to a socket request

06/04/201920/11/2014 by jjtbsomhorst

Warning: Worst Blog post written ever in history! in my current project, a simple multiplayer game, I need to react on a connection request from another device. Currently both devices start their own service discovery. On one device I go to the list of found services and pick on. On the click the ServiceHelper will … Read more

Android Development: Starting a server socket

12/11/202019/11/2014 by jjtbsomhorst

As you already know the application i’m building is using service discovery to connect to other devices. How does this work? Step 0: Add activity as observer to the servicehelper class (line 4) Step 2: Start registering the service to the network (10) protected void onResume() { Log.d(TAG, “On Resume called”); ServiceHelper.getInstance(this).addObserver(this); if (!ServiceHelper.getInstance(this).hasServiceRegistered( StrategoService.SERVICE_NAME, … Read more

Android development about listeners

18/11/2014 by jjtbsomhorst

For my App I need to use service discovery. Service Discovery is a piece of code that lets your android device search for other devices in the same network that can connect to you. But also it gives you the power to generate your own service so other devices can find you. I wont go … Read more

Android Development

16/11/2014 by jjtbsomhorst

It has been a while since my last dev related posting but here it goes. I decided to pick up android development to see how it goes and if it is as hard as people say it is. This blogpost will give you a little insight in the things I stumbled upon. Be warned. This blogpost is not written in some chronological order. It just a bunch of things I have to remember when doing android development. Therefore this post can be updated in the future.

Java: Reading GPX data from Endomondo

17/08/2014 by jjtbsomhorst

I’ve started using Endomondo as my primary workout application for a couple of weeks now and although it is a great app I want to have more control over my data. Luckily for us endomondo users they offer a export function that exports the workouts in GPX format. Today I’ve been playing around with this … Read more

Prestigio Multipad_4_QUANTUM_9.7

16/05/2014 by jjtbsomhorst

If you ever have the need for buying a Multipad_4_QUANTUM_9.7 from prestigio. Please be aware that you should follow the following instructions when ipgrading your firmware. Because if you don’t you will spend HOURS and HOURS finding out why you’re tablet is not recognized by the ‘splendid’ rkbatcher tool. oh and just to warn you . … Read more

REST framework for XPages (2)

26/03/201426/03/2014 by jjtbsomhorst

In my previous post I announced the framework I’ve been building the last couple of weeks to implement REST services in xPages. In theory you can drag’n’drop a restcontrol on an xpage, bind the apibean to it and you are good to go. But of course you still need to write code that handles the … Read more

REST Framework for xPages

23/03/2014 by jjtbsomhorst

A couple of weeks ago I wanted to pickup xPages again during my free time. So I created a little app and all worked well. But then for some reason I wanted to add Rest controls again ( as I did a couple of months ago ). This time I wanted to start of easy. … Read more

Small question regarding Dates and Rest services

01/03/2014 by jjtbsomhorst

To all the people out there who sometimes read my blogposts. What is , in your opinion the best way to represent dates when generating a REST api which returns JSON. Is it time in milliseconds since epoch Is it dd-mm-yyyy H:m:s:u ? or is it mm-dd-yyyy H:m:s:u or is it simple the ISO 8601 … Read more

RPC Calls ( and notes in 9) to the rescue

21/02/2014 by jjtbsomhorst

After a little downtime on the xPages departement I started to do some xPages again ( a few weeks ago ). Today I faced the following problem. We want to transfer data from one app to the other to generate Word documents using a xpage control. The problem is that the call is done in … Read more