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Android – prevent Dialog to be cashed in the Activity

If you override Activity#onCreateDialog method to create a pop-up dialog something that you have to be aware is this dialog will be cashed for any subsequent calls. For most cases it is just the right behavior but what if you want to change contents of the dialog on the next call? One possible scenario – say you have few tabs that display similar content in the same pop-up but the info changes based on the active tab. Here’s one way to do it. When you set your onClick listener put this into onClick call:
dialog.dismiss();
activity.removeDialog(DIALOG_ID);
Here DIALOG_ID is the same ID you are using in the Activity#onCreateDialog call

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By bo – May 11, 2010

Nexus One rocks

“N1 is nothing more than souped up MyTouch” – my own quote and oh boy was I wrong! N1 really rocks! After my trusted and not-so-old T-Mobile gadget it feels like a Porsche vs. beat-up Toyota (sorry I couldn’t resists). It’s slick, fast and far more polished. And I love it!

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By bo – April 14, 2010

Tame Gmial Inbox

The best feature of Gmail for me is ability to create a filter and use “skip Inbox” option. So I have “bacn” folder where I put stuff that I’m not considering a SPAM but it’s not personally addressed or important mail ether. Then I have 2 quick links defined: “Unread” and “Unread (no bacn)”. And lastly I have a lab features that give me “Select unread” and “mark as read” options. Between all these things my Inbox is very manageable

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By bo – March 5, 2010

Oh, Fame #2

I appeared as part of the interview with leading Android developers on odinjobs.com

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By bo – March 5, 2010

Oh, the fame!

My post to AndroidGuys about Google offering free phones to developers is referenced by ZDNet here http://is.gd/9H5a0

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By bo – March 5, 2010

GOTO Java

Here’s the scenario:

  1. Loop through the list and for each slot
    1. Compare current value with the given value
    2. If match is found modify current item and break the loop
  2. If the given value wasn’t find in the loop add it to the list

Turns out breaking out of loops using labels also works for curly block of code so the solution is below

List list = getFromSomewhere();
Foo foo = whatever();
gotu: {
    for (Foo f : list) {
        if ( f.equals(foo)) {
            f.setBlah(foo.getBlah()); // blah is not used in compare()
            break gotu;
       }
    }
// only want to execute the following if the loop was never broken
list.add(foo);
}

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By bo – February 27, 2010

Tom Petty world tour?

I just got email from TomPetty.com to “stay posted for the important announcement”. I’m guessing new world tour. I did see him in concert back in 2007 and it was a blast, I sure like to do it again!

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By bostone – February 20, 2010

LinkedIn with Outlook

LinkedIn just announced that they have built Oulook connector. It’s pretty sweet, installed without any problems

Posted in Web stuff, non-programming.

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By bo – February 18, 2010

Tame that “Buzz”

One thing that annoys me about new Google “Buzz” service is that it dumps lots of stuff into my Inbox. Here’s quick way to filter it out until Google comes back to its senses:

  • Open any of buzz messages in your Inbox
  • Pick “Filter messages like this” from “More Actions” button/link on top-right portion of message window
  • The form will open. Type “Buzz from” including quotes into Subject field. Or you can use label:buzz
  • Click “Test Search” you should see your buzz messages only
  • Click “Next Step”
  • Put check-mark into “Skip Inbox”
  • Optionally you can assign label to this filter. You won’t be able to pick “buzz” but you can use something like “whadabuzz” or anything else
  • Optionally select “Also apply filter to N conversations below”.
  • Click “Create Filter”.
  • Return to Inbox. Buzz messages should be gone

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By bo – February 11, 2010

iPad as a bookreader? Phalease…

Personally I’m fine with iPad as an Internet browsing device. I think it is awesome. But as a book reader? How’s that different with reading a book from your PC? I hate to read more than 2 pages from back-lit display. It’s called eInk for a reason.

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By bo – January 29, 2010