rsaunders100’s gists

rsaunders100 / printStackTraceWithTag.java

Created September 7, 2011 15:42

(Android) Prints a stack trace of an exception with a given tag.


	private static void printStackTraceWithTag(Exception e, String tag)
	{
	StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
	PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(stringWriter);
	e.printStackTrace(printWriter);
	Log.e(tag,stringWriter.toString());
	}

rsaunders100 / ExampleAsyncTask.java

Created September 7, 2011 15:54

(Android) The basic structure of Android's Async task.

	public class ExampleAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, ResultObject>
	{
	private final String _inputParameter;

	// Constuctor
	public LogInTask(String _inputParameter)
	{
	_inputParameter = inputParameter;
	}

rsaunders100 / ExampleAdapter.java

Created September 7, 2011 16:01

(Android) Example code for a simple array adaptor.

	public class ExampleAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> {

	private LayoutInflater _inflater;

	//
	// Initialize the adaptor with an Array List of items to display.
	//

	public ExampleAdapter(Context context, ArrayList<String> strings)
	{

rsaunders100 / XMLPullParserExample.java

Created September 7, 2011 16:08

(Android) An simple example use of a XML pull parser.

	public String parseInputStream(InputStream inputStream) throws Exception
	{
	XmlPullParser parser = Xml.newPullParser();
	parser.setInput(inputStream, null);

	int eventType = parser.getEventType();
	while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {

	switch (eventType){
	case XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT:

rsaunders100 / gsonExample.java

Created September 7, 2011 16:14

(Android) Example use of the excelent Gson library used to parse JSON.

	// .jar from:
	// http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/

	import java.util.List;
	import com.google.gson.Gson;

	public class Test {

	public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
	String json =

rsaunders100 / SimpleTimerThreshold.java

Created September 7, 2011 17:13

(Android) Use to check check if a threshold has expired since a last event. e.g. 5 mins has expired since the lat time some data has been downloaded. Optional persistant storage.

	package uk.co.digitaljigsaw.utils;

	import java.util.Calendar;
	import java.util.Date;

	import android.R.string;
	import android.content.Context;
	import android.content.SharedPreferences;

rsaunders100 / CallUsingDialier.java

Created September 9, 2011 08:28

(Android) Makes a call using the dialier on Android.

	Uri uri = Uri.parse("tel:4444");
	Intent callIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL, uri);
	startActivity(callIntent);

rsaunders100 / GJSONExample2.java

Created September 9, 2011 08:35

(Android) Another example GSON usage for parsing the JSON result of the google Geocoder

	@Override
	public GeoLocationResult getDataObject(InputStream inputStream) throws Exception {

	// Convert to string
	String responseString = IOUtils.toString(inputStream, "UTF-8");

	// One line parsing FTW!
	GeoLocationResult geoLocationResult = new Gson().fromJson(responseString, GeoLocationResult.class);

	// Example to get the location latitude

rsaunders100 / hackFeed.m

Created September 9, 2011 16:14

(iOS) Saves the response of a parsing result to disk and restores it later, for hacking / testing feeds

	-(void)processLoginWithData:(NSData*)data {

	//
	// Pull the data in from disk
	//
	NSString* responsePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"response" ofType:@"xml"];
	NSString* hackedString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:responsePath
	encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
	error:nil];
	data = [hackedString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

rsaunders100 / FileCommands.m

Created September 18, 2011 15:42

(iOS) Commands to save and load & copy from from the bundle and the documents directory.

	+ (NSString*) pathForSaving
	{
	NSArray* paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
	NSString* documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
	return [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"fileName.plist"];
	}

	+ (void) loadFromDisk {

	NSString* path = [MyClass pathForSaving];

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