Author Archives: Daniel Brain

About Daniel Brain

I'm a person who's never really sure of his official title. Let's go with "Code Monkey" for Shine Technologies. Stalk me on the Twitters or GitHub.

Easing the Pain of Android Software Fragmentation

Posted on May 24, 2012

Software fragmentation is a common concern for Android developers. Right now, supporting all versions down to Android 2.2 (Froyo) will make your application available to 93.5% of Google Play users. However, doing so also means you miss out on APIs that were … Continue reading →

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CouchDb on Android

Posted on November 14, 2011

Synchronising advanced data structures with a backend sucks. Especially when the sync is both ways; user updates to server, server updates to user. Couchbase for Mobile attempts to solve this issue by bringing CouchDb and it’s spiffy replication to Android.

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