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Hover state on touch devices

Frontend

With an increasing number of users on tablets and smartphones, the need to take touch friendliness into consideration is greater than ever. Even though both the browsers and hardware are approaching desktop speed, there are still some issues with implementing web sites and web apps for these devices. (more…)


Vektklubb Android-app available

Android

We recently released an Android application for Vektklubb.no – a product that helps you lose weight, stay in shape and become healthier.

The app is a simple WebView-based wrapper, but we hope this can help new and existing users discover the mobile version of the product.

You can download the application for free over on Google Play – although actually using the application requires you to have an active subscription to Vektklubb.
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Speeding up SQLite insert operations

Mobile

I’ve been working on an Android application recently which uses an SQLite database to store and search about 6000 rows of data, and the data is updated from a webservice periodically. It would seem like a fair assumption to think the retrieval of data from the webservice would be the slowest part of the operation, however – this turned out not to be the case. (more…)