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 [...]

Android UI development tools

Today I had a pleasure of attending one of Google’s Android Developer Conference by Rajdeep Dua ,Thanks to Rajdeep Dua I came to know some of android tools (by Google as well as third party not integrated with IDE)  available in the market to enhance UI application development. Before we start looking through the list of [...]

Exploring Android Charting and Graphs solutions

In one of the Android applications that I was creating the requirement was to have graphs and charts to present the data in a meaningful way to the user. With no direct charting API support in Android to address graphs and charts creation, I explored few other possible solutions. This blog does not focus on [...]