Chrome Custom Tabs for Android

Working with Custom Tabs isn’t exactly straightforward. Even minimal examples involve quite a bit of code as can be seen in the Official Chrome Custom Tabs documentation. What makes it worse is that one can’t expect Chrome to be available on any device. That means additional code to fall back to good old WebView. To …

Android Playlist File Parser

For an upcoming Android App project of mine I had to parse PLS (or just Playlist) files. I decided to make this a generic Android library ready for re-use. It's braindead simple to use: // ... Playlist playlist = PlaylistParser.parse(inputStream); for (Playlist.Track track : playlist.getTracks()) { track.getFile(); track.getTitle(); // ... } Based on an InputStream …