April 8th, 2011 | Android | Matt Bryson
After getting confused for the millionth time regarding converting Density Independent Pixels to Pixels (or vice versa), We decided to create a simple calculator to do it for us!
This should help to determine what size to make all your assets so you can support multiple screen densities on Android.
Android API : Supporting Multiple Screens
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February 11th, 2011 | Android, Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, JavaScript, jQuery | Matt Bryson
Skinkers’ TouchSwipe jQuery plugin enables the detection of swipe gestures on touch based devices.
Download the plugin at :
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/touchSwipe
Demos and docs at:
http://labs.skinkers.com/touchSwipe/
February 10th, 2011 | Android, Fun, Geekery, Tech | Tim Heyes
In a bit of down time “Action Man” (Adam Maloney), one of our lead developers, has knocked up a native Android application for calculating your bikes gear inch:
“Gear inches is a system that assigns numerical measurements to bicycle gear ratios, to indicate how low or high a gear is.
This app will help you calculate your bikes gear inch by simply entering wheel, chainring and cog sizes.”
A useful tool for us Android carrying, fixed gear riding techies!
Grab it for free here, here or here
January 6th, 2011 | Android, Geekery, Tech | Tim Heyes
We recently upgraded our Exchange server from 2003 to 2010 SP1 which has given us some great new features, including the far better web mail which actually works properly on non-IE browsers.
However, for the majority of the Android users in the organisation the change meant that the default email application stopped being able to connect and returned an “Unable to open connection to server” error.
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