Category: Android

Android development, the Android SDK and mobile phones in general.

Interviewing software engineers

16 June, 2015 Ulrich Scheller 0 Comments 1 category

Interviewing basics When interviewing software engineers, you typically want to answer one simple question: Will they be a good fit for my team? Therefore, your interviewing process should focus on answering this question. Obviously both sides try to answer

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Google Play Optimization for Android developers

27 May, 2012 Ulrich Scheller 0 Comments 1 category

Currently, I am preparing a presentation about optimizing apps for the Google Play Store. It is an interesting topic and still in its early stages. Unlike SEO for websites, it doesn’t seem to be affected

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Multiple targets from one Android source (the better way)

9 October, 2011 Ulrich Scheller 8 Comments 2 categories

Some of you might have read my article Android: Deploying multiple targets from one project. It describes how to create customized versions of the same software and therefore benefit from multiple apps with the same

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Key learnings from analytics

26 July, 2011 Ulrich Scheller 0 Comments 1 category

Enough time has passed since I put Google Analytics into my Android game Laska. It has been collecting statistics for nearly a month now. Therefore, I want to share some data and show the key

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Start measuring

28 June, 2011 Ulrich Scheller 0 Comments 1 category

I have been missing one important part of improving my software for a long time. But after starting my new job at 1&1 in Munich, I was reminded of how important it is. always measure

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Android AppRater

24 March, 2011 Ulrich Scheller 0 Comments 2 categories

The Android AppRater is a little tool in form of a source code snippet for getting better ratings in the Android Market. Its basic idea is to kindly ask users to rate your application, after

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Concurrency in java (german)

27 February, 2011 Ulrich Scheller 0 Comments 2 categories

The Free Lunch Is Over – that is the famous headline of an article about how the evolution of hardware alone will not solve our performance problems anymore. With the rise of multicore CPUs, software

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Things I am missing in Android development

2 March, 2010 Ulrich Scheller 0 Comments 1 category

This is a list of things I would like to see for Android to improve the development of apps. Don’t get me wrong, Android is one of the best platforms out there, but this doesn’t

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Android Fundamentals talk

14 December, 2009 Ulrich Scheller 0 Comments 1 category

This is the screencast and voice of my Android Fundamentals talk from december 2009. It was given on the 29th floor of our jentower for the towerbyte.

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