Game: Badlands

For our first game review I will start with the game Badlands. If you don't know it, it's really addictive. The purpose of the game is get with the inhabitants of the world to the end of the level. But to get there there are all kind...

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Android Studio versus Eclipse (with ADT plugin)

On the last Google I/O the Android develment team announced a new tool called Android Studio. It's a IDE based on IntelliJ. At this point we are not sure if it's going to replace Eclipse (with ADT plugin) as primary IDE for Android development or that it's going to be supported both in the future. For the time being, Eclipse is the official supported IDE and Android Studio is only available as "Early Access Preview". This...

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SoftReference Cache

This blog is about creating a SoftReference Cache for Java. I created it to use it in my Android Applications, but it will probably work in any Java environment. SoftReference What is a SoftReference? A SoftReference is a java class that represents a reference that me be deleted by the Garbage Collector (GC). What does this mean? Every object in Java has references to other objects. As long as a object has references to...

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Fragments

In my first technical blog item I want to talk about Android Fragments. What are Android Fragments and what are they used for? And how can it help me building my Android application? This will all be discussed in this article. First...

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Starting a blog

This is my first blog item ever. I always thought blogging wasn't for me, but I would like to give it a try. I just want to see if people would like to read it (or not?). So who am I? I'm Peerke. I'm a Software Developer that specializes in Android development. So a lot of the topics I'm going to blog about will be about Android and developing for Android. This is it for now. Stay tuned to my bl...

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