Month: May 2011

Written by Barry

Screen scraping in Android with JSoup

My Luas Times app uses a technique called screen scraping to get the latest tram times from the Luas website.  It effectively means requesting a web-page and then parsing it to get the data you want. For Luas Times I scrape directly from your Android device because the web-page I scrape is very small and […]

Written by Barry

T3 Online reviews Arcus Dictionary

T3 Online have just reviewed Arcus Dictionary, giving it four stars.  Not a bad review by any stretch of the imagination. Their review suggests that spell-check is not available but it is there in settings if a user wants to enable it.  It did get me thinking that perhaps it should be enabled by default […]