In a previous article, we looked at how to set up Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) in Android applications. We learned that GCM is a free service that allows us to...
0 replies - 5404 views - 08/21/12 by Tony Siciliani in Articles
You might have heard of C2DM (Cloud-to-Device Messaging), which basically allowed third-party applications to send (push) lightweight messages to their Android...
0 replies - 13693 views - 07/30/12 by Tony Siciliani in Articles
Over the past few months, a lot has been said about issues with Android, resulting in some dropping Android from their app development roadmaps. First we have...
0 replies - 7223 views - 07/27/12 by James Sugrue in Articles
Roman Nurik posted a great update to the Android Asset Studio.
You can use the Android Asset Studio to generate launcher icons, action
bar and...
0 replies - 2170 views - 07/22/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
Fluid UI
is an amazing online tool for wireframing that has support also for
Android. You can easily build rapid prototypes with it. It even allows
you...
4 replies - 4492 views - 07/21/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
I was watching the Navigation in Android presentation
from this year's Google I/O conference an I can't help thinking that
the back button is...
0 replies - 2661 views - 07/08/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
Google just uploaded the Google I/O 2012 Android design session videos to YouTube. These are worth watching!
Android Design for...
0 replies - 2208 views - 07/05/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
Google I/O 2012 is over. There's a lot of new information to go through
and sessions to watch. Google took Android to a new level and brought
Android...
0 replies - 2344 views - 07/03/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
Roman Nurik posted
initial beta implementation for swipe to dismiss code to Google+. The
code is still beta quality and not production ready...
0 replies - 2659 views - 06/26/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
Android UI has been improving with a phenomenal speed in the last year (I composed a small gallery of some apps I really like in Google+).
Many of the...
0 replies - 6632 views - 06/19/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
This morning I saw the news that Instapaper is finally arriving to
Android. My initial thought was "Oh no, here we go again" and nearly
opened...
0 replies - 2080 views - 06/12/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
As mentioned in my previous post about Google TV not all Android apps should be ported to Google TV. In this post I want to talk about differences of...
1 replies - 3254 views - 05/24/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
In the last 6 months we have seen a flood of apps that have gained
reputation on iOS being brought over to Android. Unfortunately many of
these apps have...
1 replies - 6941 views - 05/21/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
As you might have read following my previous post I'm
currently experimenting with mobile web solutions. In such a case,
having an Android emulator is...
0 replies - 2931 views - 05/16/12 by Juri Strumpflohner in Articles
Jeff Gilfelt (@readyState, http://jeffgilfelt.com/)
just released a brilliant new tool for generating Android action bar
styles. The online tool...
0 replies - 3745 views - 05/16/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
