Archive for November, 2009

Why Android WINS

Posted: November 28, 2009 in Android, Java, Mobile
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Several ‘webtards’ have gotten this wrong such as: Scoble; Google Android: we want developers but… 85,000 reasons why Apple’s iPhone isn’t going to be disrupted ..and countless others.  These ‘webtards’ have never worked in the telecom industry and would not know  a correct trend if bit them on the ass. let us deal with the [...]

Android Ad Networks

Posted: November 25, 2009 in Android, Java, Mobile
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Due to certain Google irregularities concerning what is allowed and not allowed as an ad served by them to android devices here is list of competitors to Admob and Google: QuattroWireless ZestAdz GreyStripe Admobee If you search the Android section at MobiAdNews you will find more. I forgot my favorite one, Flurry.

Logger Decision Time

Posted: November 24, 2009 in Android, Java, Mobile
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Image via Wikipedia I am coding an open source Logger set of wrappers for Android Application developers.  Let me give some background.  Most of you at some time when you started android Programming(me too back than) were not aware that you could do this at debug time: adb setprop log.tag.LOG_TAG DEBUG before your connect the [...]

QueenAlice

Posted: November 22, 2009 in Java, QueenAlice

Image by inju via Flickr What is QueenAlice?  QueenAlice is a new Android application coming to droid handsets in 2010.  We all agree that the default camera application blows goats. This is a camera replacement application that kind of blows one’s mind in new features. Hopefully, its the first killer android application. Why the name [...]

Build Apps the Android 2 Way

Posted: November 22, 2009 in Android, Java, Mobile
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Build tip secret: 1. Install Sdk components the android 2.0 way, ie andorid sdk 1.5, 1.6, and 2.0 in same install folder. 2. use build.template as your build template. 3. Copy android_rules.template main node from  Android 2.0/templates into your build file and set setup import to false. 4. Set build.porperies extra values the Android 2.0 [...]

Robo-Guice download

Posted: November 21, 2009 in Android, Java, Mobile
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For those who want to explore Guice on android  the robo-guice download is here and the examples are at here.

As background, yes I do have some Java enterprise coding chops where I am quite use to using IoC frameworks such as Spring. In which case you not only use Spring to make better MVC boundary definitions but also to write better unit tests via mocks etc. Unlike Spring IoC on Android one has to [...]

Dalvik JIT compiler

Posted: November 17, 2009 in Android, Java, Mobile
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It is not in Droid yet. However is in the repo as of now according to the Dalvik team post. According to the post thee is some breakage but it seems that the Dalvik team wants push out a more current Dalvik JIT to the AOSP tree for testing.

Ophone 1.5 SDK out

Posted: November 15, 2009 in Android, Java, Mobile
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Yes that is right folks OPhone 1.5 SDK is here. Very bottom of the page. No details of whether or not I can install in the new Google SDK components set-up.

ADP2 announced

Posted: November 13, 2009 in Android, Java, Mobile
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Brigthstar has announced ADP2 handsets will go on sale soon, see this post. Caution, starts out having Android 1.6.