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PLUA Cards

As I described in previous post, I was working on some application for personal purposes. Finally, I finished and want to share it with you.

I developed the application to play with android lollipop new API in the one hand and to help me in learning of foreign words in other hand. I published it into PlayStore with hope that it can be helpful for somebody (and of cause to add link to the app into my CV :)

The idea

Since I relocated to Poland I have been learning Polish. And the most big problem for me is my lexicon. I decided to develop some application with flashcards to learn new words. So, here is it.

Spots progress dialog

During development of android application with material desing for my personal purposes, I have implemented some progress dialog with custom progress indicator. I think somebody will like it and want to use in his apps.

So, I decided to extract this dialog into standalone android library and upload it to maven central repository. As always you can find source code at my github and make whatever you want with them.

How it looks like

To be honest I saw this progress indicator at some splash screen (don't remember which soft exactly) and decided to implement something similar.

You can install sample application to check how it works by yourself.

Source code available at GitHub page.

Pretty Ubuntu

I love Ubuntu. But since it moved from Gnome2 to Unity desktop, I can't use it anymore. By other words, I hate Unity. Fortunately, there is great project Linux Mint, based on Ubuntu (and Debian, for you choice); and it is very good alternative to use. Linux Mint guys developed its own desktop environment, called Cinnamon, and it is convenient, clear-looking and, btw, open source. It is fork of Gnome shell, based on Gtk+3, so you are able to run a lot of Gnome-compatible applications.

Sometimes it's impossible to install any linux distro you want, but Ubuntu only (for example, restrictions of you company policy). In this post I will describe how to make you Ubuntu look like Linux Mint.

Static map library

Have you ever used Google Static Map API? Let me introduce static-map android library based on this great service.

This is open source software, so you are welcome to get source code at github project page. Also, feel free to create issues regarding bugs of improvement suggestions. I can't promise I'll resolve them asap, but I'll try to find time for that =)

Google Static Maps service

Google Static Map API documentation is available here. Please, read it first if you are not familiar with service requirements and differences. Also, you can find usage limits and support there.

Configure android build environment on remote host

Often it's needed to configure CI build server for android development process. There is no problem with that if you have physical access to machine. But what if only SSH access is allowed and you are not able to run programs with UI?

Below is short instructions how to install and configure required software using command line only.

Well, my CI server is based on Ubuntu linux, so all code examples present in this article is correct for ubuntu-like operation systems. But I'm sure it won't be a real problem for you to find similar commands for your OS.