Posts tagged with Open Source
Building a Perplexity Clone with 100 lines of code
AI search apps like Perplexity.ai are really cool. They use an LLM to answer your questions, but pull in real-time search results to augment the answer (eg RAG) and list citations. I wanted to know how it works and decided to build my own version. Getting it to work is surprisingly simple and...
Fragments, Tab Adapter, and Different Layouts
When using Fragments in tabs, the FragmentManager takes care of instantiating, retaining, and reusing Fragments. The problem there is that a tag for a fragment is auto-generated. If we want to reuse that exact Fragment in a different layout (like when the device is rotated), we need to extrac...
My Map Location Tutorial - Where am I?
If you’re writing an Android App using a MapView, then you will most likely want to view the user’s location. This tutorial will show you how to create an activity that makes use of Android’s built-in MyLocationOverlay class.
Custom Android Tabs
Wanting to change the default TabWidget look and feel for Android? In this tutorial, we will investigate a few different ways to customize your app’s tabs.With Android SDK 1.6 and above, the SDK allows you to set a View as the tab instead of just text and an icon. We use be using that tech...
Android Tabs with interacting map and list views
Last tutorial, we wrote a simple app that displays two interacting list views in a TabActivity. In this tutorial, we will up the ante and add a MapView as the content of one of the tabs. Why again are we using multiple views in an activity instead of using a separate activity for each tab co...
Android TabActivity with two list views
Often times when creating an activity with tabs, it’s easy to have a separate activity for the tab content. However, things get tricky when those activities need to interact with one another. So the solution is to create a tabactivity with views (instead of activities) as the tab content. ...
Fantasy football drafter GUI
Last football (fantasy) season, my league had a live draft. I didn’t want to do the old magazines, web printouts, highlighter, scratch paper, etc deal, so I decided to write a simple GUI that showed me the fantasy ranks from various online sports sites. Of course, once a player is removed, I ...
Burkard Keller Trees
I was reading through the blog “Damn Cool Algorithms, Part 1: BK-Trees” by Nick Johnson and I was intrigued about burkard keller tree structure. (http://blog.notdot.net/2007/4/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Part-1-BK-Trees)