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Best Design Tools for Android

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...

1 replies - 3238 views - 01/20/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles

Appcelerator Expand Into Europe: Does This Prove the Freemium Model Works?

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...

1 replies - 2711 views - 01/19/12 by James Sugrue in Articles

Learning Android: Freezing the UI with a BroadcastReceiver

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...

0 replies - 3157 views - 01/19/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Android Back Button, Take Two

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...

0 replies - 2862 views - 01/19/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles

Back Button - Android's Achilles' Heel?

All Android phones must have a back button for them to be certified as Android devices. Most phones, until recently, ship with  physical back...

1 replies - 3389 views - 01/18/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles

Official Android UI Design Guidelines Announced

Google has just announced Android Design guidelines. This is a huge step forwards for the platform! I urge everyone to head to the site at:...

2 replies - 5826 views - 01/13/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles

Learning Android: Sharing with Twitter/the 'share via' dialog

One thing I wanted to do in the little application I’m working on was send data to other apps on my phone using the ‘share via’ dialog which I’ve...

1 replies - 5299 views - 01/12/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Android UI Pattern - Expand in Context

This is a very simple pattern that is not very widely used yet but I believe it will be soon. The idea is very simple, and not even new, but...

1 replies - 3309 views - 01/12/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles

Learning Android: Authenticating with Twitter using OAuth

I want to be able to get the tweets from my timeline into my app which means I need to authorise the app with Twitter using OAuth. The last time I tried...

1 replies - 5409 views - 01/10/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Learning Android: Deploying application to phone from Mac OS X

I’ve been playing around a little bit today with writing an Android application and while for the majority of the time I’ve been deploying to an...

0 replies - 3064 views - 01/07/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Learning Android: WebView character encoding

In my continued attempts to learn how to write an Android application I came across a problem with character encoding when trying to load some text into a...

1 replies - 3499 views - 01/06/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

What Should Android Apps Look Like?

The Android platform doesn't have strong guidelines for how the apps should look and function. Google had made it clear from the beginning that they have...

1 replies - 7228 views - 12/20/11 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles

Quick UI Tip - Avoid Popups

Does anyone still remember when Internet advertising was in it's most annoying. That was when browsers hadn't yet have evolved to protect their users...

1 replies - 3890 views - 12/14/11 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles

Shortest Code for a Simple Calculator on Android

 String RESULT; String input = "(1+3)/4 * 2 - 7"; ... webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true); ... webView.addJavascriptInterface(new...

1 replies - 4948 views - 12/13/11 by Peter ___ in Articles

Video: Taming Android UIs with Eric Burke of Square

In October, Eric Burke from Square gave an excellent and in depth presentation about building Android UIs and challenges developer face when...

0 replies - 4623 views - 12/11/11 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles