Monthly Archives: March 2009

Restyling Android’s ImageButtons

Posted on March 26, 2009 by craiget

Discovered an interesting thing about Android today: the fairly ugly default ImageButton can be replaced with a custom drawable while retaining the very user-friendly highlighting behavior. I was trying to create three buttons for an application I am working on: … Continue reading →

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The Amazing World of COM

Posted on March 5, 2009 by craiget

COM is one of those things that I’d heard about but never really needed. Well yesterday I stumbled on a script for converting Word documents to PDF using COM and that got me thinking — “Can I save myself TONS … Continue reading →

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Bridging Android’s ListPreference and Database

Posted on March 1, 2009 by craiget

Long time, no post.. I’ve been waay too busy programming Android for the last few weeks to get anything useful done. As mentioned a few days ago, I’m getting deluged by weird comment spam, so comments are turned off for … Continue reading →

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