Nokia Drops JavaME

What the major news outlets failed to highlight yesterday in Nokia’s news to consolidate on QT for both Symbian and MeeGo is that Nokia sells a large majority share of MIDP  JavaME devices deployed worldwide. And usually consolidation moves like this ripple through the Mobile OEMs. True, not many other OEMs have something like the [...]

Joe Hewitt about as open as

Image via Wikipedia Joe Hewitt, funny the complaints about open coming from a Facebook developer, the same firm troubled by privacy gaffles, not being open, etc. Lets back track a bit. Other OSes claiming open in mobile devices. Symbian, at first Symbian source tree was not accessible and viewable by outsiders much like Android. JavaME, [...]

Android Testing DSL Reprise

Image via Wikipedia I did some hacking yesterday with Calculon in a attempt to see if it could be extended similar to robotium. Not possible, robotium is the best option..sorry MK(Calculon developer). Thus, we have a IDE plugin or build that runs all the tests at one time and completes a code coverage report along [...]

Agile Android Development

Gee, be nice if testing was easier and with the influx of  new frameworks does not make it any easier. The major reason why the average android developer does not unit test from the beginning(TDD) is that in any Virtual Machine mobile environment you run into situations where certain objects are not accessible to test. [...]

Google gets it Wrong

Hello  rant on. There are times hen every developer both outside application developers and project contributors want to just strangle Google. This might be one of those times. On Sept 21st a developer blog post was posted on the android blog about using proguard to obfuscate in oreder to use some LVL features. The proguard [...]

AndCooperANT 0.1.1.1 Release

There is now a download of the AndCooperANT Android Java Application build tool. Its still alpha with the most tested area being the build.xml script. Of course if you find errors report them in the issues section. Some of the docs are still in flux at the moment let me know in an issue/bug report [...]

Gingerbread vs HoneyComb

With one of the new Android releases coming up in October lets go over differences.  Android 2.3 is being nicknamed Gingerbread by press but as you know according to Google/OHA 2.3 is not Gingerbread as there is never a full transfer of all the changes in the private Gingerbread tree to any public release. So [...]

More Video Demos

I am putting up more Video demos: As per my habit now, you will usually find sample code for that demo on my github account link at the bottom of this blog. I should have some more up very soon.