Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Using the BPG image format on Android

There's a new image format in town and it's called BPG (Better Portable Graphics). Well, it's not so new, as it's been introduced in 2014, but it's new enough that you can find little information about integration with different platforms.
For academic/experimental purposes I've made a small Android application to see the format in practice.



Sunday, May 10, 2015

SQL queries with optional WHERE parameters

There may be at some point a need to filter data based on some user input, which may or may not be available at application run-time. This is what we'll discuss in this post, in the context of SQL queries.