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How to apply a custom theme to an Android application

Jul 20, 2012

Since the release of Android 4.0, we have seen an increase in applications that follow the new Android design guidelines. The guide describes the Android holo theme that provides a cohesive user …

Configuring the OS-X application menu for SWT apps

Jul 19, 2012

If you write a ‘pure’ SWT application on the Mac (i.e. just SWT – no RCP/workbench), you will notice that the OS-X application menu is not properly configured. It just displays ‘SWT’ instead of the …

Is Eclipse awesome?

Jul 18, 2012

Today, there is one major ingredient for successful technology marketing: Use the word “awesome” as often as you can. You can even do better by using “totally awesome”. Or “insanely awesome” if you …

Clean compareTo methods with Google Guava

Jul 17, 2012

A common task in object oriented programming is comparing two objects for the purpose of sorting. In Java the useful Comparable<T> Interface exists. I’ve found myself implementing the compareTo method …

Eclipse 4 Applications on RAP

Jul 16, 2012

Eclipse 4 is the new platform for application development in Eclipse. We already succeeded to run e4 applications on RAP two years ago, but then we got sidetracked by other efforts. Now that Eclipse …

Tabris 0.6.1 – New and Noteworthy

Jul 13, 2012

It’s time for a comprehensive update after the well received Tabris 0.6 release. This time we not only provide the usual set of bugfixes and performance improvements after a .0 release, we’ve also …