Around two years ago I asked why there weren’t that many successfulJava ME consumer applications that weren’t games. I went on to conclude that the few that were successful were just a window on more open, capable and consistent processing somewhere else.
It’s interesting to see that a number of development frameworks for several development platforms [...]
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October 1st 2009 | Posted by msino
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August 31st 2009 | Posted by msino
Another common requirement is to send an email from your application. At first, this looks easy. You use an ACTION_SEND Intent as demonstrated by the example on OpenIntents…
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, “email text”);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, “Subject”);
sendIntent.setType(”message/rfc822″);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, “Title:”));
However, this sends the email via the Android mail app in the phone, prompting you which email app if you have more [...]
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August 31st 2009 | Posted by msino
TTS 1.4 has very recently become available on the Android Market. TTS has been created by Charles Chen, Software Engineering Team and T.V. Raman, Research Scientist at Google.
You can use the TTS library in your own applications. There are also some hints and tips how to use TTS in your application.
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August 30th 2009 | Posted by msino
So I whipped up a quick Python script that reformats the logcat output into a colorful stream that is much easier to visually follow.
One feature I really like is that it allocates unique colors for each “tag” used. This makes it really easy to visually separate dozens of tags into their source apps, and makes it [...]
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August 30th 2009 | Posted by msino
Customization is one of Android’s greatest strengths. While there are plenty of options for giving your G1 homescreen a facelift, you may occassionally want to get something other than the pre-packaged themes for aHome, dxTop, or Open Home.
If you just want to find some cool icons and wallpapers to put on the home screen – [...]
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August 30th 2009 | Posted by msino
I don’t know how many hours I’ve spent struggling with Android’s theme engine, trying to figure out — mostly by trial and error — how styles are applied and how to properly define them (let’s be honest: the documentation on styles in Android is a bit lacking). I thought it may be worth sharing what [...]
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August 30th 2009 | Posted by msino
This tutorial shows you how to download and install Android SDK to get you started developing Android applications.
1. Download and Install the Android SDK and Test the Emulator
2. Install Java
3. Install Eclipse
4. Install the ADT Plugin in Eclipse
5. Create Hello World Application
1. Download and Install the Android SDK and test the Emulator
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Create a folder called [...]