Thursday, May 3, 2012

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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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

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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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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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