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On most devices, using AdMob in an obfuscated application (using ProGuard) works perfectly fine. However, on a few devices (I don't know which ones), you'll get a java.lang.NoSuchMethodError and your users will be angry. Here's the full stack trace:...

One of the key features of Android is the ability for apps to provide notifications that pop up in the status bar. I'll try to explain in this post how you should implement a Service component that polls a web service regularly to check for updates....

While working on an app, I had an activity that downloaded an image from the Internet and displayed it to the user (amongst other things). Because all of the data presented to the user is downloaded from the Internet, it's mandatory for me to save this...

I recently wanted the title of my activity to scroll like a marquee whenever it was too long to fit in its space (because it is fetched from the net and can be pretty much anything). I didn't want to use a custom multi-line title view because that would...

Here we go, another Java vs. Python comparison (I just can't help myself). This time it's about standard library usefulness in doing certain tasks. Fetching the contents of a URL should be a trivial one, but in Java, it's not. Especially if the contents...