Jeremy Kemp » Apps

Unit Converter – Currency!

Jeremy — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:43:33 +0000

I’ve just released an update for my Android app which now supports currency conversion!

All global currencies are supported with live exchange rates being fed from the internet. Obviously, it now requires the “full internet access” permission as well as “view network state”.

I’d appreciated it if you could let me know of any improvements that you’d like, or any problems with the application that you may be experiencing so that I can improve the application.

You can get Unit Converter directly from your phone here or from the Android Market website here.

Git and GitHub!

Jeremy — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:27:27 +0000

Just a quick update on my Unit Converter App. I’ve just switched over to Git from Subversion to coincide with the creation of my new GitHub account.

Unit Converter’s code is now available to view and modify for all!

Access the repository here!

Android Development

Jeremy — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:35:19 +0000

I’ve recently got myself a new phone sporting the Android operating system. It’s a great little device and sparked my interest in developing for the platform.

To ease myself into it, I’ve developed a simple unit conversion app to help teach me the core features of the Android SDK whilst providing something that I can publish on the Android Market that only took a few days to develop!

At the moment, it supports simple units and conversions such as area, length, and volume but I’m currently expanding to include density, memory sizes, and currency.

Currency provides an exiting challenge in that I will be able to pull live exchange rates to the app where an internet connection is available for highly accurate conversions. I could even use GPS to detect which currency the user will currently be using based on the country that they are in.

Such a simple premise for an application has and will be able to teach me a lot about the Android SDK and provide an excellent grounding for future apps!

Head on over to the Android Market or AppBrain and download my modest little app!

Dropbox

Jeremy — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:27:57 +0000

Dropbox is a great little app I found about a year ago for backing up all your important files and making them available anywhere in the world, as well as syncing them to any other computer you have linked to your account.

For example, if you’re working on a document on your computer, any changes you make to the document will instantly be reflected on your laptop or iPhone so you don’t have to bother with a flash drive or e-mail.

I’ve found it ridiculously useful for all my uni work as it saves up to 30 days of revisions to any file. So for example, you mess up some piece of source code and you want to get the version back from 3 days ago at 3 o’clock, then that’s possible via the Dropbox website (Obviously no replacement for SVN but handy anyway). You just select which version you want to restore, and then that version is pushed back to all your devices with Dropbox installed! You can even recover deleted files and it works on Windows, Linux, Mac and iPhone.