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Troodon Software LLC has released a fantastic class library poster for Android development in PDF format, so you can print it out and hang it on your wall for quick reference.
To help make our Android applications look even more professional, we can include HTML formatted text and display it in a WebView. Here's the simplest way I've found to have local HTML, image and style files and display them. This is the same process I use to display help in Grandma Jong.
The Android Icon Design Guidelines have been updated to describe the latest design styles of iconography in versions 2.0+. The styles have changed dramatically from pre-2.0 days, so be sure to read the whole document.
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It has been a long couple of months from before Thanksgiving straight through Christmas and New Years and I was very busy during those times. I didn't get a whole lot done on anything Android related, including working much on my first app to be published to the Android Market, titled Grandma Jong.
Now I'm back on track, and put in a lot of work over the last week or so into getting it ready for a beta test. I'll post here when it is ready, but in the meantime, here are a couple screenshots:
I'm really excited about attending the third local BarCamp in DC tomorrow! Yep, we're already on our third one here locally (not to mention all the others happening in the Baltimore-Washington D.C. area). I'm planning on co-presenting on Android development with Zvi Band.
Version 1.6 of the Android SDK has been released to developers. Though this isn't a major release, there are quite a few tasty updates that I'm looking forward to (both as a user and a developer).
For users, updates include:
I came across this interesting discussion yesterday regarding WVGA supporting coming in the Donut (1.6) version of Android OS. It looks like there will be a lot of work cut out for developers because we'll need to support Cupcake (1.5) which is standardized on HVGA, and Donut which will now start supporting not only various resolutions, but also various screen densities.
AndroLib.com is a third-party website (not run by Google) that presents a nice display of all the apps available in the Android Market. They have been crunching some statistics about what kinds of apps are available and the number of downloads they have. One interesting bit of information is that at least 25% of the apps have less than 50 downloads!
Here are the slides for my introductory presentation on the Android platform and some useful links to Android related sites.
It's about time I started writing again, so I'll fill you in what I've been working on in my spare time over the last couple of months. Back in the day when I started iconoclast software, I developed several games for a touchscreen platform that was at the time found in airports, bars, etc. Ever since those were published, I've been dreaming of porting them to a mobile platform.
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