Update: I’ve released 1.8 to fix a force close issue when loading the European overlay. Another update to Rainy Days, my weather radar application for Android! This version features a few new options and fixes. First of all, it is now possible to change the opacity of the clouds using the on-screen slider, for example if you like to see the map better. This is a per session setting, which means that the normal opacity …
Monthly Archives: April 2010
How to render an Android view to a bitmap
Yesterday I was wondering how to render a view to a bitmap. It turns out to be pretty easy, you can use the View.buildDrawingCache() and related methods for that. The only gotcha I ran in to that you’ll have to layout the view yourself if you are instantiating the view outside of an activity. Here is my working code: Button b = new Button(context); b.setText(“Hello World”); b.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true); // this is the important line :) // …
App Engine overview presentation
Yesterday I gave a presentation on Google App Engine for a small group of people at Capgemini. I talked about my experiences so far and highlighted the main features of App Engine. I’ve published the slides on Google Docs, maybe it helps you to start with App Engine.