Title bar flashing was removed by sticking: ..in the first activity. Music was added to first activity(sorry about no sound in the video..still figuring out gtk-recordmyDesktop and my soundcard): What is next is to override the transition to the next activity using overridePendingTransition() which is an Android 2.0 feature. Prior to Android 2.0 you would [...]
Archive for February, 2010
How To make Android Apps Look Like iPhone
Posted: February 27, 2010 in AndroidTags: Android, User interface
The general idea is as I work through polishing certain UI coding elements to do a tutorial series on making Android Apps Look/feel like iPhone Applications. Right now I have the 3D Splash screen implemented: Basically, in frame layouts everything is visible but you can modify that on-the fly and than use matrix and camera [...]
This what the average Android Developer does in form of an UI: Now, guess what I am going to implement on this to bring it up to iPhone UI quality? It involves breaking a bad android programming habit…stay tunned.
Where are the Customers?
Posted: February 24, 2010 in AndroidTags: Add new tag, Android, Android Market, Marketing
One thing that is the same in skills and processes with the effort to get sales in Android Market is something that may at first glance might not seem related,androd development consulting customers. You have the same process of analyzing where that target audience might look on the web and attempting to grab that audience. [...]
Image via Wikipedia I have a collection of Android application ideas on my hard drive but Home Replacement applicatiosns seem to be the top sellers in the Android Market for paid applications. There is of course dealing with the private APIs still associated with the Home application than how do I sell the less functional [...]
Playing around with custom titles: Notice back button actin like iPhone.
If you have not done already move all your trace files and hprof dump file programming commands to your testcases class. why? 1. Because its called in your Testcase you no longer have to comment it out to publish your application. 2. You can implement a special ant task that triggers or runs that TestCase [...]
PMD 5 comes with some new additions to the Android Rules and a nice new features in that you can define a rulest and stick outside the pmd.jar unlike PMD 4. Thus for an ANT target you have:
There are some javadoc errors that I see when developers attempt to produce javadoc for an Android application project. One, not specifying the android.jar as a classpath parameter and the second is not specifying what Androdi SDK version in th e footer some place: Remember, there is no separate javadoc for the SDK online so [...]
I have a refactoring of AndCooper ANY build for Android applications: The other non-emma test targets are not added yet. The main idea is to have one build file that can be used in the app source and test source folders both through the IDE and later on through a continuous build server.
