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Monthly Archives: March 2016

In Need of Parse Alternatives? Let’s Look at Firebase!

Posted on 03/26/2016 by Lance Gleason

Until recently, Parse has been the go-to solution for mobile developers who needed to persist application data to the cloud without having to set up and run a custom API backend. All of this changed in January 2016, when Parse…

Posted in Android, Architecture, Database, Development, IOS Tagged with: Android, Database, Firebase, Parse

Purr Programming Shirt Part 4 — Adding Android Wear Support

Posted on 03/18/2016 by Lance Gleason

In the first three parts of this series we discussed how to create a wearable garment (in our case, a t-shirt) with LEDs, how to connect it to an Android device using MetaWear, and how to make it change colors…

Posted in Android, Android Wear, Development, Kotlin, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: Android, Android Wear, Kotlin, MetaWear, Wearables

Purr Programming Shirt Part 3 – Changing Colors Based On Twitter Notifications

Posted on 03/17/2016 by Lance Gleason

In the previous installment of this blog series, we talked about setting up a service to talk to the MetaWear board. In the app, we flash and change the colors of the LEDs on the t-shirt by sending broadcast intents…

Purr Programming Shirt Part 2 — Communicating with the MetaWear

Posted on 03/08/2016 by Lance Gleason

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about the hardware for our Purr Programming t-shirt and how we connected all of the components. Now let’s talk about the Android app that controls the shirt’s LEDs. Our app has the…

Posted in Android, Development, Kotlin, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: Android, Kotlin, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables

Purr Programming Shirt Part 1 — The Hardware

Posted on 03/06/2016 by Lance Gleason

If you’ve met the folks at Polyglot Programming, you know that we love cats, t-shirts, and wearables. Which is, of course, exactly why we recently came up with an idea to combine all three into a project. No, we didn’t…

Posted in Android, Development, MetaWear, Mobile, Uncategorized, Wearables Tagged with: Android, MetaWear, Purr Programming, Wearables