Two fragments in one activity

A fragment represents a portion of user interface in an Activity, and provides a mechanism for creating reusable modules, after being created this module can be embedded within activities. In this example we will combine two fragments in an activity and follow the steps for…

Android Handler Example

A Handler allows send and process Message and Runnable objects associated with a thread’s looper MessageQueue. Each Handler instance is associated with a single thread and that thread’s message queue.

Vagrant Portable Development Environment

Vagrant is a free and open-source software that allow us to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.

Main components of Vagrant

Use Git Source Control with Xcode

Source control helps us to keep a strict control of the code of our project, allowing us to fix bugs more easily. Git is a distributed version control system, his potential lies in the idea of doesn’t have any central repository, everyone can have their own view of the…

Symbolic Link

A symbolic link or symlink is a special type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory as an absolute or relative path, the main purpose of a symbolic link is to behave as if operating directly on the target file.
A symbolic link contains a string that is automatically interpreted…

iOS Customize TableView Cells using Nib file

We are going to make that our table cell looks much better, we need to give to the texts and to the image a fixed position and size with a custom cell.

Design of the table cell

Android Using Picasso to View Images

The ImageView class can load images from local or from content providers, but is not prepare to load an image from the web.

The main problem is that getting data over the web must be done in an asynchronously way. A good solution is to use…