Author Archives: Lars Vogel

About Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel works as an independent Android and Eclipse trainer, consultant and book author. He is also a regular speaker at international conferences. With more then one million visitors per month Lars website vogella.com is an important source for Android and Eclipse related programming topics.

The end of Eclipse 3.x

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Lars Vogel

Currently we have in my option the unfortunate situation that Eclipse did fork itself into a 3.x and 4.x stream. Fortunately this is going to change. I think it is worth to put emphasis on the statement of Mike Milinkovich. … Continue reading →

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Android – INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Lars Vogel

If you work with the Android Emulator and deploy to it for a while you may receive the following error message in the LogCat View. Installation error: INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE The reason for this is that the emulator default to 64MB for … Continue reading →

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Android SQLite and ContentProvider Book available for the Kindle

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Lars Vogel

Today I released my new Android SQLite and ContentProvider book for the Kindle device. This book demonstrates how you can develop Android applications using the integrated SQLite database. It also demonstrates how to use and create ContentProvider for accessing data. … Continue reading →

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WindowBuilder with Eclipse 4.2 / 3.8 (Linux)

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Lars Vogel

Currently, if you trying to use WindowBuilder under Linux with Eclipse 3.8 / Eclipse 4.2, it renders incorrectly. Add the following line to the end of your eclipse.ini file to fix this: -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.useCairo=false This is a small bug in SWT … Continue reading →

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Making the Android SDK source code available in Eclipse

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Lars Vogel

As of Android 4.0 the integration of the Android SDK source code is much easier. You can just download the source code via the Android SDK Manager. The sources are downloaded to the source directory located in “path_to_android_sdk/sources/android-xx”. xx is … Continue reading →

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Jan 2012 Challenge of the month – No more Windows

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Lars Vogel

A bit delayed and short, but this month I have the challenge to only use Linux (Ubuntu). I have no MS Windows OS installed anymore, no dual boot or such a thing. I still have a Mac in the house … Continue reading →

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vogella.de design update

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Lars Vogel

I updated the design of vogella to make the navigation simpler. I basically simplified the top menu and added a few more sub-categories, e.g. Tutorials Blog, Social and About page Books I also highlighted my Eclipse RCP and Android trainings … Continue reading →

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Leaving SAP – Into the Wild

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Lars Vogel

After 10+1 years, I decided to leave SAP. What did I do at SAP in these 11 years? I have been acting in the role of Implementation Consultant, Process Consultant, Trainer Developer, Project Development Team Lead, Integration Architect, Escalation Manager, … Continue reading →

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Eclipse IDE 3.7 Book available for the Kindle

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Lars Vogel

Today I released my new Eclipse IDE 3.7 book for the Kindle device. Eclipse IDE 3.7 Fundamentals of Java Programming, Debugging, JUnit Testing and Mylyn Tasks with Eclipse This book demonstrates how you can develop Java applications, how you can … Continue reading →

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Automatically starting Services in Android after booting

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Lars Vogel

To start Services automatically after the Android system starts you can register a BroadcastReceiver to the Android android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED system event. In the onReceive() method the corresponding BroadcastReceiver would then start the service. If you application is installed on the SD … Continue reading →

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