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With QEMU you have basically two choices for networking: usermode and TAP/TUN. For running servers on the Guest OS the TAP/TUN is the way to go. Simple way to set-up the bridged networking and TAP interfaces for QEMU.
How to override the system wide locale in your application and get away with it. Demonstrates an application wide approach where there is no need to the change the existing activities.
How to create extendable applications for Android and how to avoid the Apple AppStore LITE & full version mess. And what you should be looking out for.
The internet is filled with people trying to understand why their CSV generated by PHP/ASP.NET/whatever which uses the UTF-8 encoding doesn’t get imported correctly into Excel. To be more precise Excel doesn’t seem to be able to handle UTF-8 for CSV files at first glance. Here’s how to get it working…
At first glance drawing attractive bezier lines might be a bit taunting, but in reality there is nothing easier…
The Android Developer Challenge 2 (ADC 2) has begun. Grab your gear and start exploring!
Sometimes a situation arises when you want to use a certain Preference, but also want to include some business logic to map the values to different types/values depending on certain conditions. Reimplementing those controls isn’t very productive most of the times. But there is a way…
Taking a screen shot of another window with WinAPI can prove to be a big challenge. Partly because the lack of quality information and partly because of the bugs in Windows itself.
When writing FUN2Learn I was presented with a challenge: how to make views animate at the start and end of the activity without creating a big mess in the code.
When developing for Android it is recommended that service calls should not block the thread and should create a new thread if they need to do time consuming tasks. I agree that blocking the UI thread is bad, but sometimes it can get ugly.