Last week I attended AnDevCon in San Francisco (looks like their site already transitioned to the next one in Washington D.C) from Nov. 29th through Dec. 1st. Whenever I attend a conference, the goal is to absorb as much information as I can in order to become a better developer. Between Read More …

ActiveAndroid TypeSerializers In the last post we learned the basics of saving and querying with ActiveAndroid. We built a simple UI for our app and glimpsed our first tangible example of ActiveAndroid at work. This post will focus on an important part of developing with ActiveAndroid: TypeSerializers. ActiveAndroid knows how to Read More …

ActiveAndroid Basics – Saving and Querying All code for this series is located here. Part 3 of this series gave an in-depth look at how to set up your model classes using ActiveAndroid. This post will focus on how to save your models to your database and how to perform basic queries. Read More …

ActiveAndroid Basics – Models All code for this series is located here. In the previous post I went over how to get ActiveAndroid up and running in your application, now we are going to implement our first Models. Disclaimer: This post will be longer than the previous two and will include some Read More …

Getting Started with ActiveAndroid All code for this series is located here. In my last post I gave a short intro to Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) and the ActiveAndroid library. This post will focus on how to hit the ground running with ActiveAndroid. We will look at the different ways to instantiate Read More …

Intro All code for this series is located here. I am going to come clean – I never took a databases course in college, I never had any formal SQL training, and as a result learning SQLite as a newbie Android developer was a challenge. Sure, basic SQLite statements are Read More …