Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Everyone loves conspiracy theories, so I thought I would share the latest. Some of the developers who entered Google's Android Developer Challenge (ADC) are accusing Google of giving MIT favorable treatment and an unfair advantage. Claims include extending the contest around MIT's class schedule, providing students with devices ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
I just want to start off by urging anyone who is writing open source applications for the Android mobile platform to release their applications under the GNU General Public License V3.
The Open Handset Alliance is about to wrap up the first round of the Android Developer Challenge and they're ready ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If you didn't run out and upgrade to Leopard and/or buy a spanking new Intel Macintosh, you won't be developing applications for the iPhone. Besides, unless you've done a bit of Mac development before, your going to be behind because iPhone applications are written in Objective C. Who ...
Posted in Apple, Gadgets, Mobile | 2 Comments »
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Although Android touts it's platforms openness; It is really no more open than any other mobile platform on the market as of now. You cannot download the source code for any of their components. What does this mean? Well, basically that they have YAMOS (Yet Another Mobile ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
It seems google may have shipped android with a tab widget that is said to be deprecated from the time of release.
Here is a simple method I've used to implement tab-like functionality that seems to work well for me. You can easily change the background of the ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Here's a little snippet I wrote to access resources in R.java during runtime. It just uses reflection to get the filed names of the objects in the R class.
public class RR {
public static Drawable getDrawable(Context context, String name) {
...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I've had a lot of fun hacking on Android applications recently and I'm really looking forward to seeing the future of Android unfold. My first project was the the password safe I mentioned in my last post and while working on some features for it I was looking for an ...
Posted in Android, Programming | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
I've got my first working Android application together. It's just a simple password safe with some decent features for a first release including:
128 Bit AES Encryption
Password protected. Your password is needed to decrypt the data stored in the safe
All data is entrypted including notes, website link, description
Click through ...
Posted in Android, Programming | 7 Comments »
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
I recently received an iPhone as a present. Which is great since there is no chance I could afford to purchase one for myself at the moment. Overall I really love it. It's a huge improvement from my 3yr old Blackberry. The browsing experience is second to ...
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