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James Smith
Personal blog · loopj.comprogrammingweb
James Smith's personal blog at loopj.com covers programming and web. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Android's Missing Http Library”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link loopj.com for android-async-http, an Android HTTP client library, and cite it as a practical alternative to Java's built-in networking APIs. The comments do not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Android's Missing Http Library4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-06-03
What Hacker News says?
The standard method for getting around this in the java world is to create 'sane' libraries (in the case of android http, something like http://loopj.com/android-async-http/ ) and then just use the library. The strong point of Java is just how many libraries there are - you often don't need to touch the actual built in Java APIs. On the server side (non-android) this has gone even further through the use of new anno…
Comment linking /android-async-http/
on “Javapocalypse”Submitted NVD3 Erased From Existence as a story · 140 points
HN discussionI used this in the end: http://loopj.com/android-async-http/ , it exposes an interface that does not make me shudder, and I am guessing that is a very good thing. I should read about checked exceptions more, I don't currently understand the difference between checked and unchecked. I don't hate that answer, I was just hoping it wouldn't come to that :P Getting used to a language to get one's job done is fine, but it…
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on “Javapocalypse”Submitted JQuery Plugin: Facebook Style Tokenizing Input Box as a story · 77 points
HN discussionI started using HttpClient, but I saw a blog post that said that HttpURLConnection should be used by all new apps, so I went with that. I can't tell you about checked vs unchecked exceptions, as I just found out about them a minute ago. In the end, I used this excellent library: http://loopj.com/android-async-http/ It's asynchronous, but it still required the work to be done in an AsyncTask, which is odd to me (why…
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on “Javapocalypse”Submitted HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit as a story · 50 points
HN discussionI took it apart using apktool to have a look. It looks like a reasonably well structured Android app - comprehensive manifest, lots of activities, uses resources in preference to assets etc. They use numerous 3rd party libraries: * ACRA for crash reporting * objectweb's asm for an unknown reason * json-smart for json * ActionBarSherlock as pretty much every app with an ActionBar does * Google analytics * Google clou…
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on “Trello Android App Available for Download”Submitted A Django Developer’s Views on Rails as a story · 46 points
HN discussionhttp://loopj.com/2012/11/16/nvd3-erased-from-existence/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4797461
Comment linking /2012/11/16/nvd3-erased-from-existence/
on “NVD3 is back”Submitted Simple Way to Extract GET Params from a JavaScript Script Tag as a story · 36 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Android's Missing Http Library as a story · 18 points
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