How to conceptualize a Location Aware Application?

With availability of location services in all upcoming smart phones, a number of location aware applications have hit the market. Groupon, Foursquare, Loopt, Roamz and many more are now popular names among users. First of all, let us try to understand usefulness of such applications. Location aware applications are intuitive and have much better user [...]

Android Enterprise Application Development

For past two years, Android has evolved from an immature mobile OS to a popular choice for users as well as device manufacturers.  Google is continuously updating Android and adding features to make it more and more powerful and competent with other mobile OS mainly iPhone and Blackberry. One major thing which Android was lacking from its [...]

Xpressions iPhone/iPod app

Smartphones have made a deep impact on our lives. Applications not only provide services to the users or entertain them, but connect to them at an emotional level. At Xebia we strive to build apps that connect with users. Our first step in this direction was Talking Photos, an app which enables a user to [...]

Spring-Android: Spring for Android!!!

With an aim to ease the development of android applications Spring-Android, an extension to Spring framework is released.The framework with it’s first release brings in RestTemplate and commons-logging support for the Android based applications. This blog is the result of my experience while using the Spring-Android framework in one of the android applications that I [...]

Android : ListView With Images and Cursor.

Hello , I have recently  put my feet into the vast sea of Android by working on my first hands-on simple ‘Android Application’ which allows you to create and manage personal reminders like Birthday,  Anniversary,   home inauguration etc. and send customized messages based on the type of event. So in this application,  I encountered [...]