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Hi, I'm Stephen Nicholas.

And this is my blog. I'm a software engineer by trade (but mostly for fun) with a wide variety of experience and interests. Some of which I'll write about here.

Posts

Power Profiling: MQTT on Android

While most people who've used MQTT know that it uses extremely low amounts of power on mobile devices, I couldn't find any definitive power figures and so I thought I'd try collecting some. This post details what I did & the results I found.

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QuickeR: Using video QR codes to transfer data

My recent hack from Over the Air 2011: transferring data between devices using 'video' QR codes.

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Android Power Profiling

Recently I’ve been looking into power profiling some Android applications and I thought I’d write up a quick post about my approach and the tools I used.

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Eclipse quick line count

Today I needed to find out how many lines of code were in one of my projects, so I loaded up Eclipse, loaded the project and then... was stumped.

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How to use the Android HandlerThread

Today I'm going to talk about something I ran into recently that turned out to be very simple, despite initially seeming a little confusing, the Android HandlerThread class.

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