Category Archives: software

I needed to allow my easy receipt app to do a few simple things. -A way for the user to review the receipts that was swipe-able. -This view needed to show data and an image -It needed left right detection as well   The basic components for this are as follows; Layouts- I used two […]

If you are building an app with the android camera2 api here are my thoughts after fighting with it. (Full code at bottom for copy paste junkies) This api was a little verbose with me using about 1200 lines of code. It could probably be done easier but if you want something custom here is […]

Thanks to googles text recognition API I was able to effortlessly get text from the receipts I wanted to parse.   In the picture above you can see I created a method I could pass images into which returned results through a callback. The strategy was simple. Here is the link I used to set […]

Easy receipts is an app I made that allows you to easily organize your receipts. Any one who has had to track their receipts knows the labors of carrying a folder around and then manually entering them into a computer and probably scanning them as well.   This app is CONVENIENT. Just take a picture […]

electric skateboard   Describing my electric skateboard build. I have only driven this board seven miles so I cant say how far it will go. But I can say that its scary fast and very fun! Electrical was a cinch! Below you can see the layout of the parts that are needed for the electronics. […]

easy time card app android   Updated and revised   After releasing the easy time card app I realized that it looked very dull and relied heavily on androids basic graphics. It was a utility app I made for myself so early on this was ok. But after releasing it I wanted it to look […]

On my app I wanted to include an introductory video loaded directly ino the app instead of pulled form an internet source. Once the app was created I used a resource called handbrake which compressed my video into just a few megs.   The I applied the following code…   My main activity has two […]

In my recent project I needed to build a pdf and email it to a user. Android has a great library for this and I found it only took a few hours to get a reasonably readable pdf onto my screen.   The basic outline goes as follows //create the pdf <pre>PdfDocument reportDocument = new […]

How I drew a live bar chart in my sound proofing and STC app available on google play Fast Fourier transform FFT android   The above picture is a screenshot of my android app where I needed to live display over 100 data points onto my screen. Here is how I did just that. Important to know is […]