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Android Game Postmortem – ArkDroid Development

by Ilias Tsagklis on December 30th, 2011

Hello guys, As you might have noticed, we have recently delved into the world of mobile game programming. This was done after creating JCG Studios, an independent mobile game studio based on Athens, Greece. JCG here stands for Just Cool Games, it is our other acronym, except for Java Code Geeks of course. Our platform of choice is Android and our first attempt ... Read more »

Funny Source Code Comments

by Ilias Tsagklis on July 19th, 2011

I recently stumbled upon an awesome Stack Overflow thread, entitled “What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?”. As you might have guessed, it is a collection of funny source code comments, provided by developers all over the world. Take a look at it, it could definitely make your day. I am reposting here my personal favorites ... Read more »

Android Game Development Tutorials

by Byron Kiourtzoglou on June 15th, 2011

Some months ago we received an email from a fellow Java developer, Tamas Jano, asking to be part of our JCG partners program. To our surprise he maintains a blog named “Against The Grain” debating about game development for the Android platform. I have been reading all of his articles since then and I must admit that his writings have been an inspiration ... Read more »

Android Google Maps Tutorial

by Ilias Tsagklis on February 7th, 2011

The Android platform provides easy and tight integration between Android applications and Google Maps. The well established Google Maps APIis used under the hood in order to bring the power of Google Maps to your Android applications. In this tutorial we will see how to incorporate Google Maps into an Android app.Installing the Google APIs In order to be able ... Read more »

“Android Full Application Tutorial” series

by Ilias Tsagklis on October 19th, 2010

Continuing our tutorials on Android here at JavaCodeGeeks, I am going to provide a number of articles on how to build a full Android application from scratch. The app will mainly be useful for performing movies and actors lookups. The TMDb API will be used for searching and links at the mobile version of IMDB will be provided. All the app development lifecycle ... Read more »

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AChartEngine – A Charting Library for Android Applications

by Dan Dromereschi on December 20th, 2012

As its name suggests, AChartEngine is a charting library that can be used in Android applications. It supports all the Android SDK versions from 1.6 and up. The 1.6 version offers only ...

The Java ByteBuffer – a crash course

by Peter Schuller on December 20th, 2012

In my experience, java.nio.ByteBuffer is a source of confusion and subtle bugs when developers first encounter it, because it is not immediately obvious how to use it correctly. It ...

Should I use a 32- or a 64-bit JVM?

by Vladimir Sor on December 19th, 2012

This is a question I have faced several times during my career in enterprise software development. Every once in awhile I’ve had to hand out recommendations for configuring a specific ...

Escaping the JVM heap for memory intensive applications

by Ruben Badaro on December 19th, 2012

If you’ve ever allocated large Java heaps, you know that at some point – typically starting at around 4 GiB – you will start having issues with your garbage collection ...

Groovy: Multiple Values for a Single Command-line Option

by Dustin Marx on December 19th, 2012

One of the many features that makes Groovy an attractive scripting language is its built-in command-line argument support via CliBuilder. I have written about CliBuilder before in the ...

ANTLR – Semantic Predicates

by Maria Jurcovicova on December 19th, 2012

Parsing simple grammar with antlr is simple. All you have to do is to use regular expressions to describe your language and let antlr generate lexer and parser. Parsing big or complicated ...

Checking out what is new with Servlet 3.0

by Dinuka Arseculeratne on December 19th, 2012

With the JEE6 specification hitting the market, some major changes have taken place with respect to how you would approach developing applications in the enterprise application world. ...

Functional Java collections

by Attila-Mihaly Balazs on December 18th, 2012

There is a lot of functional hype these days so I would give a short overview on what is out there at least when it comes to collections in Java. Personally I like standard collections ...

Getting started with Quartz Scheduler on MySQL database

by Zemian Deng on December 18th, 2012

Here are some simple steps to get you fully started with Quartz Scheduler on MySQL database using Groovy. The script below will allow you to quickly experiment different Quartz configuration ...

Why can’t I turn off the Garbage Collector?

by Nikita Salnikov-Tarnovski on December 18th, 2012

Let’s start with a quick rewind to the early days of my career as a Java developer. I wanted to eliminate Garbage Collection (GC) pauses from a test that I was conducting. Lo and ...

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Android Game Postmortem – ArkDroid Development

Funny Source Code Comments

Android Game Development Tutorials

Android Google Maps Tutorial

“Android Full Application Tutorial” series

What's New Here?Subscribe to RSS feed

AChartEngine – A Charting Library for Android Applications

The Java ByteBuffer – a crash course

Should I use a 32- or a 64-bit JVM?

Escaping the JVM heap for memory intensive applications

Groovy: Multiple Values for a Single Command-line Option

ANTLR – Semantic Predicates

Checking out what is new with Servlet 3.0

Functional Java collections

Getting started with Quartz Scheduler on MySQL database

Why can’t I turn off the Garbage Collector?

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