The Android Invasion

Google CEO announced in talks to the press that Android just reaqched the milestone of 200,000 activations per day which surpasses the iphone daily activation rates bragged by Apple. But what does this mean? Lets put this in perspective. That is 6 million devices per month or 18 million devices per quarter. Nokia is currently [...]

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 [...]

Android iPhone Coolness

Most of you when encountering my Make Android Apps look Like iPhone Apps posts understood that it was not literal in that I did not mean make an Android App look like iPhone  but meant in polishing the UI of the Android Application look and feel to implement a greater user experience. There is a [...]

Make Android apps look like Iphone Apps Series

Yes, I am writing a series of articles on Android Aesthetics or in common words make android apps look like iphone apps. I will be putting them up shortly via Google’s Knol service, link to my knols i son the right hand side of this blog.

Android UI vs iPhone UI

So why am I trashing my own app UI design? Well, with the ad space of 100px I get this: As you can see the ad space size does not play well as far as taking up too much space. But there are some other concerns. If you view the iPhone demo: ..you see applications [...]

Google Mobile Revolution

Mobile is changing. I first made a entry into mobile in 2001 starting work at a startup and later on eneded contributing to a user interface library called SynClastUI for MIDP J2ME. Back than it was a real pain to do any mobile development and mobile fragmentation among mobile platforms was in full swing.  I [...]