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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Android’
Here is what the WabashDashboard looks like: It was kept simple without use of grails-groovy, django, etc as wanted developers to be able to use it on laptops as well as desktops. I just used some effective iframes to make it real damn easy in operation. The last part of Wabash to add is the [...]
MobileReview is claiming that Nokia also signed up to produce an Android handset in early 2012. You might think that on the whole that might be false. But some things do not match. The CEO’s memo and speech mentions that Nokia is getting out-marketed in 3 distinct areas; low cost feature handsets, middle cost smartphones, [...]
Android Agile Patterns
Posted: December 21, 2010 in Android, JavaTags: Android, android-mock, Apache Ant, Behavior Driven Development, Emulator, instinct, Mock object, Original equipment manufacturer, robolectric, robotium, Test-driven development, Unit testing
You might be wondering why I would spend so much time on integrating things via an ANT or Gradle build tool. The whole idea was to be able to do full application testing from beginning to end similar to the way OEMs do framework testing. In other words the developer should be able to run [...]
Ah I think Google plans a nice x-mas present for android application developers in the form a new and improved ADT plugin. Visual Editor now has drag and drop! Proguard fully included. Heirarchy viewer no longer regulated to command-line as you will view it using the new ADT plugin. And also clicking on lines in logcat [...]
Image via Wikipedia I am going through determining if I author an android dev book on android 3.0 thus here is what I have thus far in what android 3.0 will contain: -finalized USB/Blueooth apis beyond the unpolished ones now in place. -VOIP/SIP apis finalized? -more hooks to hardware/software buffers audio/video, etc? -update of webkit [...]
Image via Wikipedia With Packt Publishing attempting to recruit me as an android 3.0 development book author and an android training opportunity position opening up in downtown Chicago, I once again have the opportunity to think about how android development should be taught in class form and book form. Its not that there are not [...]
Joe Hewitt about as open as
Posted: October 20, 2010 in Android, JavaTags: Android, Facebook, Joe Hewitt
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
Posted: October 12, 2010 in Android, JavaTags: Android, Apache Ant, Groovy, Programming, Tests
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
Posted: October 11, 2010 in Android, JavaTags: Android, Dalvik, Mock object, Unit testing
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. [...]
