Steven Osborn » Android

Android 2.2 isUserAMonkey() check

steve918 — Sat, 22 May 2010 06:16:45 +0000

Per the documentation: Returns “true” if the user interface is currently being messed with by a monkey.

There is another gem in the Log class, they’ve added a new log level ‘wtf‘ which in this case means “What a Terrible Failure”

DropBox on Android

steve918 — Wed, 05 May 2010 03:47:43 +0000

I’m a huge fan of Dropbox so android support is a welcome addition.

http://bit.ly/9tDeXd

iPhone Dual boots Android

steve918 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:15:49 +0000

And it has Multitasking! :-p

http://www.pcworld.com/article/194748/hack_iphone_now_runs_android.html

To many gadgets? Naw

steve918 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:42:07 +0000

Free Course: Developing Android Apps with Java — A Twitter Client.

steve918 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:38:41 +0000

Pretty sure the world doesn’t need another dozen terrible twitter clients, but looks like this should be an interesting course.

http://bit.ly/abwkBY

Android Priorities

steve918 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:01:08 +0000

How can Apple ever contend with the feature set of Android. I mean they have ‘Live’ wallpaper!

Free online Android programming course p…

steve918 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:09:55 +0000

Free online Android programming course presented by CreativeTechs in partnership with O’Reilly

http://bacn.me/zhe

Android Market Success/Blunders

steve918 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:15:51 +0000

Android Password Safe has surpassed 10,000 downloads, it’s really exciting when a weekend project turns into something people actually use!

Having an app on Android Market has been quite an adventure. The download counter will reset every time I upload a new version of my application, then suddenly correct itself several days later. There is no upgrade notification for users who have already downloaded my app. The only way they’ll know is if they manually check for updates (lame). In addition to Android’s brokenness I created quite a bit of heartache for myself. After uploading the first version of the Password Safe I managed to loose the key used to sign the application. This caused considerable pain to the end users who had to export all of their passwords, uninstall APWS and then re-install and import their passwords.

Even though Android market place has some serious issues, it’s getting the word out about all of the great applications out there and overall I’m pretty excited about the future of the platform

Android Password-Safe makes it to Market

steve918 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:21:38 +0000

Android Password-Safe is finally live on Android Market place.

Password-Safe is a secure password storage application for Google’s Android mobile platform. It uses AES 128bit encryption to keep passwords secure. Includes support for passwords groups and CSV import/export.

Some features planed for the near future:

Search
Random Password Generation

If you have any questions or feedback send your emails to:
android-pws@googlegroups.com

Any feature request/bug reports to:
http://code.google.com/p/android-passwordsafe/issues/list

Big thanks to Randy for all his hard work.

Android PasswordSafe Update

steve918 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:14:15 +0000

Android PasswordSafe now works with Android .9_r1 thanks to Randy McEoin.

Go Open-Source!