Goove wave Invite For Android Developers

I have 8 Google Wave invites.  To get one state what you are working on and your gmail account address as a comment to this post. I apologize in advance that I can only awadr 8 as I know that I will get many responses from hard working android developers. I only ask that if [...]

Android WebVIew Programming Using Google Web Toolkit II

First, that working book title is not set in stone. Second, the book proposoal submission review is Tuesday morning. Third,  the publisher if they grant approval is Apress. Sevral of my peers  have authored for apress before and thus I feel its a good fit if I get the approval. One  of the benefits of [...]

Android Webivew Programming using Google Web Toolkit

Image via CrunchBase It might get interesting in the next few weeks. I am reconsidering completing a book proposal for Android Webview Programming using Google Web Toolkit. It is a publishing company I trust while the advance is low the other opportunities that it could produce are somewhat bigger. Some of my online firends/peers have [...]

Android-GATE-09

I have resisted the temptation to weigh in on this as I wanted to see what would come to be., I see signs of developer efforts to assist the ecosystem, OMEs, OHA members, and etc in the process of the balance between an open Mobile Operating System Platform and business concerns of all parties. The [...]

Android-src.jar for Android 1.6

As you might know android-src.jar for IDE code completion is not supplied by the SDK you download.  SOmeoen has stepped up agin and suppplied a zipped archive of classes for SDK 1.6.  As always download from the link on bug issue 979 and unzip in /sdk_install/platforms/1.6/sources and of course you will alos find the download [...]

Android and Google GWT

Now I have an integration decision with AndCooper Android Java Application ANT based build tool. With the webview web code suport in the build tool my diea was at some point to swtitch to Goolge GWT compiler support and keep the non GWT  web tooling support there for those who wil not use Google GWT. [...]

Android SDK Fine Print and Debugging

Sometimes it helps to read the fine print for example, adb: You can use the adb commands pull and push to copy files to and from an emulator/device instance’s data file. Unlike the install command, which only copies an .apk file to a specific location, the pull and push commands let you copy arbitrary directories [...]

Android API Level Detection

A comment made by had working Xavier(one of the Google engineers) yesterday got me thinking, API Level dtection using ANT,  before today’s regex refactoring: Of course it does use the ant-contrib ant task library. Now to refactor using regex patterns. Basically by setting the var.api.level property I can than using flas load the correct code [...]

Build Numbers in Android Applications

When working with new innovative technologies you often have to take apart old tools and gleu them back in new ways to deal with new issues. If you have worked in JavaMe(j2ME) before you might have used something like JReleaseInfo to adjust and collate different manifest items to add to the manifest before you jar’d [...]

Motorola MB200 Add-on

It is not bad as Motorola’s version 2 of the MB20 handset add-on for the Android emulator. However, no Motoblur enabled this time and no search enabled. I guess we might have to wait for October or November for those features to be enabled in the emulator add-on. Here is hoping that other handset OEMs [...]