Tag Archive for 'android'

Multipart form upload on Android

18Feb10

Android 1.5 includes Apache HttpClient 4 for the purposes of making HTTP requests. Unfortunately HttpClient 4 (or the version included with Android anyway) doesn’t appear to support multipart form uploads.
As it happens writing a solution from scratch (at the HTTP layer that is) is pretty straight forward. The main challenge is understanding how the POST [...]

Identifying Performance Issues on Android

09Feb10

While application performance is always in the back of your mind when developing PC applications it becomes much more important when developing on a mobile platform. The hardware is slower and the user expectations are much higher.
This problem came to the fore for me recently as I was porting UPM to the Android platform. Since [...]

UPM 1.0 for Android

29Jan10

There’s nothing like the feeling of relief the day after a software release. Even when it’s only something small you’re still putting your creation out into the big bad world to be pored over.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on a version of UPM for Android. This was mainly an exploratory exercise so [...]