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Aman Alam: Android Facebook Integration

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I, World, and Technology. Okay, I found this a little (but only a little) tougher than integrating Twitter (with Twitter4J library) in your Android applications, but this is how it works:. Download the Facebook Android SDK from https:/ github.com/facebook. Extract the zip file. Inside it, there is a folder called 'Facebook' . Its the SDK reference we'll be using. Remember, this is just a reference project, thus you cant get an APK out of it. Now create your new project. Posted by Aman Alam. March 22, 201...

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Aman Alam: December 2010

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I, World, and Technology. Android Tutorial : Custom adapter for ListView to create bubble shaped list rows. I am seeing many people interested in writing their own adapters for various reasons. the primary reason being their need to implement their custom layouts in the rows. In this tutorial, I am going to explain how you can set custom layouts to your lists and their rows. Here's the screenshot to make things clear:. Find the whole source code at this link. The whole concept works like this-. Returns t...

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Aman Alam: You need answers? sure, we need etiquette !

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I, World, and Technology. Sure, we need etiquette! There's one thing about Open Source tradition that everyone should know and care about. This is specifically for the people who are actively (or maybe not that often) ask questions on Q&A sites (like stackoverflow.com) and other development forums. He's sharing his hard-earned knowledge with you, for free! For which he could have earned serious amount of money if he was selling it. But the spirit of collaborative learning is what drives him. You, as a pe...

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Aman Alam: August 2010

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I, World, and Technology. Guide: How to set up Android SDK on Linux machines. I know many of you have already done this before, but I also believe that there will be a lot who will gain from this document. Here is a 6 page Google doc in PDF format, which teaches you how to install Android SDK on your Linux machine, set it up and even makes you build your first project on it. I hope you'll find it useful. Find the document here: http:/ bit.ly/cQJJKE. Posted by Aman Alam. Monday, August 16, 2010.

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Aman Alam: October 2012

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I, World, and Technology. This post is in continuation of an older post titled On a smartness diet : Back to Basics. Which discussed about my experiment of moving from a smart phone towards a feature phone). This rather took long but has been an experience. I had planned to use the feature phone for a week and write down my experience but for some reasons, I decided to stretch that period of a week to several weeks:. Most importantly, I was having no problem using that Nokia 1202. As with emails, I would...

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Aman Alam: March 2010

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I, World, and Technology. MySql : How to convert UNIX TIMESTAMP data into DATE data in queries. There might be situations where you would want to convert a data stored in UNIX TIMESTAMP format (may be by your code or else) to human readable DATE format of mysql, then just run this query-. SELECT FROM UNIXTIME(time stamp fieldname) as any FROM table;. And see the results in a new table format, every record's timestamp data will be changed in Date data. Posted by Aman Alam. Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Co-Fo...

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Aman Alam: September 2012

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I, World, and Technology. On a smartness diet : Back to Basics. Last weekend, I took a decision to switch back to an old, basic, non-smart phone from this Monday for a full week, just to see the differences. I have been using this Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro. Long name, right? Yes, and confusing too! For more than a year. This one:. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro. There were a few reasons why I bought it:. The small size, fits in the pocket perfectly. Speaker quality was very good. I am surely g...

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Aman Alam: September 2008

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I, World, and Technology. Assymptotic Notations. Source: Eternally Confuzzled. 1 void f ( int a[], int n ). 5 printf ( "N = %d n", n );. 8 printf ( "%d ", a[i] );. 9 printf ( " n" );. Okay, but what does O really mean? Now, even though O notation is the most common, it's not always the most accurate measure. For example, let's say we have a sequential search of an unordered array where the items are randomly distributed and we want both the average case growth and the worst case growth:. 6 if ( a[i] = x ).

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Aman Alam: October 2010

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I, World, and Technology. Android OS Source Code Modification (Part-II): Making the System. Considering that you have followed all the instructions in my previous post here. I take this series of post forward which illustrates how to compile the source code in order to get it running in an emulator. Building Android 2.2 source to run an Emulator. Secondly, you must be aware of outcomes of your modification. So, I have just ended up creating an emulator, and there's really nothing big involved in this.

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Aman Alam: January 2011

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I, World, and Technology. Sure, we need etiquette! There's one thing about Open Source tradition that everyone should know and care about. This is specifically for the people who are actively (or maybe not that often) ask questions on Q&A sites (like stackoverflow.com) and other development forums. He's sharing his hard-earned knowledge with you, for free! For which he could have earned serious amount of money if he was selling it. But the spirit of collaborative learning is what drives him. You, as a pe...