A tutorial on Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) in Google Web Toolkit

A tutorial on Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) in Google Web Toolkit

At some point in your GWT development, you’ll want to start communicating with a server. Handily, GWT has a lot of stuff built in to help you do this in as easy a way as possible. The GWT RPC framework is very helpful indeed for just this, and this post will show you how to create your RPC services easily. Continue reading ‘A tutorial on Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) in Google Web Toolkit’

Setting up Eclipse for Android development on Windows, Linux and Mac

Setting up Eclipse for Android development on Windows, Linux and Mac

Well with the impending arrival of my 7″ Rockchip 2808 Dual Core Android Tablet device from Amazon. I am getting excited about developing  applications and more specifically games for Android. So I need to setup my favorite IDE eclipse width the latest Android SDK’s and Android Eclipse Plugin (ADT) for android development. Continue reading ‘Setting up Eclipse for Android development on Windows, Linux and Mac’

How to prevent Apple getting your location data every 12 hours

How to prevent Apple getting your location data every 12 hours

According to this article by eWeek.com, and by extension Apple themselves, Apple collect location data from your browser every 12 hours, though they do anonymise and encrypt it (though how much anonymising can be done with, for example, your home address, I don’t know). Continue reading ‘How to prevent Apple getting your location data every 12 hours’

How to use HTML5 audio tag with GWT

How to use HTML5 audio tag with GWT


In a nutshell, GWT and the html5 audio tag work very well with one another. It’s a rather simple matter to interface with the audio tag through strategic use of JSNI (JavaScriptNativeInterface). Basically, JSNI means that you can get your Javascript all up in your Java. Continue reading ‘How to use HTML5 audio tag with GWT’

Setting up Eclipse for easy GWT development

Setting up Eclipse for easy GWT development

Here at the Flax Project headquarters, we use Eclipse as our development environment. This is for a couple of reasons: It’s fully cross-platform, open source, it works fairly well, and it’s got a GWT plugin. While you can, technically, develop GWT web applications without using the plugin or indeed Eclipse, I can’t recommend it. Now, I’m going to walk you through setting up your IDE and making a mostly blank GWT project in Eclipse. We’ll link back to this in other tutorials for convenience. Continue reading ‘Setting up Eclipse for easy GWT development’