A firm has begun trademark application review process on the mobilebytes name i the mobile applications field so I am transitioning the blog to; fredgrott.wordpress.com So change your bookmarks, new android stuff will be posted soon and will still be posting about eclipse, linux, java, startups, etc. Onplanet android the android feed will change to: [...]
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Android 2.2 SDK
Posted: May 17, 2010 in Android, UncategorizedTags: Add new tag, Android, Android SDK, Google, Open Handset Alliance
The Android 2.2 Sdk release is probably on Wed morning. But, this sdk release is different. Not only do we have a quarter where android device sales surpassed iphone(remember I told you it was going to happen in 2010 not 2011), we also have an Android SDK that represents both Google and OHA taking outside [...]
You may wonder why we use PMD rulesets. Remember that to have one code base targeting Android 1.5, 1.6, and 2.x you have to use a minSDK of 3 and targetSDK of 4 in the manifest? So how od you get your IDE to warn you when using certain 1.6 calls when you should be [...]
UI Fragmentation
Posted: March 23, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Add new tag, Android, HtcSense, Sony Ericsson, User interface
The problem happens to be that every UI implementation on the OS side has a different color color sets for focused and selected. HTC Sense is green, Android SDK is orange, and both Moto Blur and SonyEricsson Rachel are different colors. On top of that not only are the image button colors changed but the [...]
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.
QXRWH6NHQNH2 just to make sure I get listed on Technorati. Have a nice xmas.
Before I being this, some background. Sometimes intelligent gifted people are not the easiest to interface with. Dave Winer certainly could be said to be the Frank Zappa of the RSS user community at times. So when you find an aha moment from dave winer explained by himself in an easy non pressure language its [...]
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 [...]
o I am finishing up my template creation for the AndCooper Android Application Build Tool so that I can submit another TDD bgu fix for the Android SDK and finalize up AndCoooper 0.1. My performance TestCase looks like this before I transform it into ctl template language constructs: And my ant target looks like this: [...]


