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Android Density Pixel (DP) / Pixel (PX) Calculator

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 DP / PX Calculator

Android API : Supporting Multiple Screens

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Skinkers release TouchSwipe jQuery plugin for iPad, iPhone and Android.

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.

Features

  • Detects swipes in 4 directions, “up”, “down”, “left” and “right”
  • Supports single finger or double finger touch events
  • Supports click as well as swipe
  • Definable threshold to determin when a gesture is actually a swipe
  • Events triggered for swipe “start”,”move”,”end” and “cancel”
  • End event can be triggered either on touch release, or as soon as threshold is met
  • Allows swiping and page scrolling

Download the plugin at :
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/touchSwipe

Demos and docs at:
http://labs.skinkers.com/touchSwipe/

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GearInchy – Android app for calculating your gear inch

February 10th, 2011 | Android, Fun, Geekery, Tech | Tim Heyes

GearInchy

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 freeĀ here, here or here

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Exchange 2010 SP1 and Android error “Unable to open connection to server”

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.
Android error screeshot
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