It’s that time of the year again when the mobile web ecosystem changes. Google Chrome Beta for Android was released and it appears as the future replacement of Android Browser. I’ve made a deep analysis on the browser HTML5 compatibility and the comparison with Safari on iOS and Android Browser and I’ll show in this post my results.
0 replies - 2533 views - 02/08/12 by Maximiliano Firtman in News
To allow one application to communicate with another running in a different process, Android provides an implementation of Inter-Process Communication through the Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL).
0 replies - 1044 views - 02/08/12 by Tony Siciliano in Articles
It is easy to think that letting users change all aspects of an app UI makes the UI better. We've all heard the "if they don't like it they can change it" argument. It is also very easy to come up with theoretical scenarios where users would actually want to change any one aspects of the UI.
0 replies - 1757 views - 02/05/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
Wallpapers are a nice way to customize your homescreen. There are
many applications that allow you to change your wallpaper and they have
huge databases with alot of wallpapers. An example is Zedge.
But the main question is:
How to they do it?
0 replies - 1604 views - 01/27/12 by Mark Mooibroek in Articles
To many, the inclusion of a menu button on Android phones is a bit messy. After all, the usability of iOS devices is spot on without this function. It makes me happy to see that Google is encouraging people to move away from using the menu button as more...
2 replies - 1950 views - 01/27/12 by James Sugrue in Articles
As discriminatory as this is going to sound, this one is for the
old-timers. If you started programming after the turn of the milennium, I
don’t know if you’re going to be able to follow the trend of this
post—not out of any serious deficiency on...
14 replies - 8140 views - 01/26/12 by Ted Neward in Articles
Which are the best tools for designing for Android? I have
my favorites but I'd really love to hear about tools you use and your
experiences with them. Please leave a comment!
To kick of the conversation I'll present my favorite design tools. Both
of...
0 replies - 3052 views - 01/25/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
In a previous post I listed some free UI libraries. In this one I'll take a look at example applications.
0 replies - 1684 views - 01/24/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
To test mobile versions of websites, it is useful to be able
to connect to a web server on your local machine from a web browser on
an Android emulator without having to expose the web server to the
Internet. You can’t use the normal loop-back IP...
0 replies - 839 views - 01/23/12 by Dan Dyer in Articles
In the app I’m working on I make use of the ViewPager class which is only available in the compatibility package from revisions 3 upwards.
0 replies - 1137 views - 01/21/12 by Mark Needham in Articles
I’ve been trying to adapt my Android application to fit into the structure of the RobolectricSample so that I can add some tests around my code but I was running into a problem when trying to deploy the application.
To deploy the application you need to run...
0 replies - 1193 views - 01/20/12 by Mark Needham in Articles
Which are the best tools for designing for Android? I have
my favorites but I'd really love to hear about tools you use and your
experiences with them. Please leave a comment!
To kick of the conversation I'll present my favorite design tools. Both
of...
1 replies - 1687 views - 01/20/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
Since I started out on mobile app development, I've been a big fan of Appcelerator. Just today they've announced an expansion into Europe, as well as adding to their management team. Appcelerator have shown themselves to be one of the shining examples of how...
1 replies - 1351 views - 01/19/12 by James Sugrue in Articles
As I mentioned in a previous post I recently wrote some code in my Android app to inform a BroadcastReceiver
whenever a service processed a tweet with a link in it but in
implementing this I managed to freeze the UI every time that happened.
0 replies - 1458 views - 01/19/12 by Mark Needham in Articles
It thought I'd write a follow up to my previous post about Android back button
to clarify my stand on it and explain my point of view a little
better. Also, I want to thank anyone who contributed thoughts to the
discussion in the previous post. I find it...
0 replies - 1202 views - 01/19/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
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