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	<description>Coding Ramblings on the Android Platform</description>
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		<title>File Browser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a learning exercise, to get used to have a go at putting an android UI together I (matt) have been working on a File Browser.
Here&#8217;s a few screen shots of the nearly finished article:

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		<link>http://blog.droidapps.co.uk/file-browser/</link>
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		<title>Failed, but hey maybe next time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No luck in the Android contest, but hey as we only had like 3 weeks to learn the platform and write the application, it wasn&#8217;t really unexpected. Congratulations to everyone who did make the top 50. Looking forward to seeing some of the entries&#8230;
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		<link>http://blog.droidapps.co.uk/failed-but-hey-maybe-next-time/</link>
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		<title>Andy Rubin demos android on a 300Mhz touch screen device</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Browsing about and found this http://blip.tv/file/698098/
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		<link>http://blog.droidapps.co.uk/andy-rubin-demos-android-on-a-300mhz-touch-screen-device/</link>
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		<title>Dos style file filter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t remember which forum I found this on, but I&#8217;m pretty sure it wasn&#8217;t licensed, if I am wrong then please contact me.
The following class can be used with ListFiles to filter the files returned using dos style * and ? wildcards.

&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; public class RegexFilenameFilter implements FilenameFilter &#123;
&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.droidapps.co.uk/dos-style-file-filter/</link>
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		<title>Android Activity Designer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found this graphical Activity designer for Android.  I will let you know what I think..http://droiddraw.org/
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		<link>http://blog.droidapps.co.uk/android-activity-designer/</link>
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		<title>Working with OptionMenus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each activity can have it&#8217;s own menu defined. Here&#8217;s a quick info on getting your menu up and running.
OptionsMenu event cycle

onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) - The point at which you should add all the items you need into the menu. Call the super inherited method to have the menu populated with the default items.
onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) - The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.droidapps.co.uk/working-with-optionmenus/</link>
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		<title>SD Cards and the Emulator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From a command prompt / terminal navigate to the android sdk&#8217;s tools folder.
Resetting the emulator
To reset the emulator and wipe all the stored data, returning as it were to factory settings run:
emulator -wipe-data
Create a blank SD card image: 
mksdcard &#60;size&#62; &#60;filename&#62;

e.g. mksdcard 512M halfagig.sd
will create a 512 MegaByte sdcard image called halfgig.sd.
Mounting an SD Card [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.droidapps.co.uk/sd-cards-and-the-emulator/</link>
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		<title>Background Intents (non-visual)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Intents have multiple uses on the android platform and this fact makes them inherently confusing.  In the single mechanism a variety of uses are implemented and this is only too apparent when you look at the Intent class constructor.  When delving into the intents with Craig,  he wondered why a nice Intent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.droidapps.co.uk/background-intents-non-visual/</link>
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		<title>Syntax Highlighting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The droidapps blog is using Dean Lee&#8217;s Syntax Highlighting plug in for wordpress. http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/code_highlighter_plugin_for_wordpress/
Code is simply wrapped with &#60;pre lang=&#8221;java&#8221;&#62; &#60;/pre&#62; and the plugin does the rest. It will syntax highlight various languages including javascript, php, c sharp
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		<link>http://blog.droidapps.co.uk/syntax-highlighting/</link>
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		<title>Android Developer Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Craig and I (no relation despite the common surname) submitted an application into the Google Android Developer challenge.  We only came across android about three weeks ago, and as we both have a full time job and families, it was a bit of a push to learn as much as we could about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.droidapps.co.uk/android-developer-challenge/</link>
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