Archive for April, 2011

Wabash Notes

Posted: April 18, 2011 in Android, Java
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So Wabash is this set of ant scripts that I have been working on to support BDD and test instrumentation and some beginning MonkeyRunner stuff. The last set of steps is to switch to using the DroidDoclet the same one used by the android project. This way I can combine different documents from child projects [...]

Android App Marketing

Posted: April 7, 2011 in Android
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Everyone has been looking for a sales channels similar to Apple AppStore.  I found an innovative one that involves the context of the mobile device user in the process. It has some apis to access, but its not bad in that the coding time is somewhat small. Now, to find a firm in Chicago that [...]

BDD vs TDD in Android

Posted: April 7, 2011 in Android, Java
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Several firms including PivotalLabs have advocated choosing TDD for android development. Thus, one has to ask what have they forgot to mention is part of the android platform that will force most developers the other way? Yes, TDD is faster if you execute the process as TDD..no that is not it. Android right now is [...]

Android 4.0 at GoogleIO

Posted: April 4, 2011 in Android
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There was of course that ice cream sundae doodle which may or not be an April fools joke. But, we know that Google and OHA engineers are hard at work on the next version of Android. We of course know that part of Android 4.0 is a port of the Honeycomb UI to the smartphone [...]

While the Android project uses make to drive a specialized doclet called droiddoc and a jni extension of the claersilver template engine you can use DocLava to come close as you will than have a specialize doclet with the java version of clearsilve(jsilver) as the template engine.