Monday, February 24, 2014

First Android app published

First Android app published! To be used in Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Give it a spin!


PysaDroid is an easy and clutter free app for planning your journey in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area similar to what you get with HSL service https://www.hsl.fi/. Currently bus routes are supported only.
The name PysaDroid comes from a blend of Pysäkki ([bus] stop in Finnish) and Android.
Key features:
- Non-intrusive autocomplete. Very useful feature if you feel like you don't remember the full street or place name. Or it is just too freezing outside to type with bare fingers.
- Clean design of the resulting routes
- Latest search button that remembers your last search! Press the bus button to load your latest search.
- Take me to home functionality: set up the direction to home on the results page once by pressing the button with home icon and use every day!
- Take me to the office functionality: similar to take me home.
- View the route on the map.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Android: filler / divider between columns in a TableLayout

Android is pretty tricky to deal with at times, and surprisingly difficult for something very simple..
..like adding a filler between columns in a TableLayout. "Gotta be simpler!" I thought after having spent countless minutes reading up over countless suggestions and recipes.

So I took the path of just creating an empty filler.png image in the mspaint, just a vertical bar, and inserting it programmatically:

ImageView dividerView = new ImageView(this);
dividerView.setImageResource(R.drawable.filler);

Then added this to a TableRow object which subsequently should be added to the aforementioned TableLayout.

Before adding a divider:


After adding a divider: