Android 2.2 SDK

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 [...]

Android 2.2 Release-Getting Close

You can see by list of changes at kernel.org that the Android .2. release might be coming shortly. Features that we know thus far: 1. Smaller Linux Kernel part to save ram 2. JIT 3. Improvement of UI widgets. 4. Possible storage of applications on sdcard 5. SDK side, package resources as a library project. [...]

Android IO Sessions

What the Android IO session this May indicate: 1. Dalvik JIT may be in Android 2.2. or Android 2.3, Dalvik JIT IO session. 2. UI Enhancements may be coming to Android 2.2. UI IO session. 3. Multiple Android versions expected on devices at least util end of year. Targeting Android Versions IO session. The precedent [...]

Android road-map

Okay, an Android Road-map.  The idea is since I am tracking the changes anyway, make it a dynamic knol that I can update as I track new information. This is not Google supported or supplied an can form time to time suffer from inaccuracy. However, I am gleaning the hints from Google Group threads, etc [...]

Un-professionalism

Please do not put an Android product in the Android Market that is defective and than have the gall to put ‘a bait and switch’ job ad on CL to fix the android application as it not only makes you  look somewhat stupid but damages any professional sounding PR statement you made stating you can [...]

A Mobile Build System

Through my exploration of attempts of an all inclusive ANT build script for Android development I have come to a set of contrary conclusions.  These conclusions while they run counter to the status quo do in fact indicate that some Enterprise and Web techniques can be re-used. In a mobile system we often have to [...]

Another Splash Trick

You know if you set android :windowBackground to a drawable and set your Layout container to either  a background color or drawable that you get a nice very brief splash right? How could you use this? As you know most of us recommend that use an activity as a dialog screen. You could use it [...]

Custom tab Coolness

That is a fully working custom set-up with text color changes, etc.  Basically, I used the concept that since its a view group(TabWidget) I can manipulate the child elements. If it was just a plain view than you still can grab the object and manipulate. Why is this important? With iPhone you are limited to [...]

UI Fragmentation

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 [...]

60,000 vs 90,000

Tim Bray  in his first Advocate post stated a daily sales figure of 60,000 versus iPhone’s daily 90,000 unit sales figure. Now, remember Apple has had 3 years to get to that 90,000 units per day figure.  But, Android has reached 60,000 per day figure in less than 2 years. See why Apple is is [...]