I hope you have a great holiday season, and I wish you all the best for the new year!
Disappointingly, the christmas release I was hoping to finish was not to be. It’s going to sound like a lame excuse at this point, but other things kept interrupting.
But fear not, I’ve made a bit of progress [...]
Today’s post on the Android Developers Blog annoys me. Titled Integrating Application with Intents, it describes pretty awesome mechanism by which one app can re-use parts of another app’s code, provided both are structured properly.
If you’re technically inclined, head over to that blog for the nitty-gritty of things. It’s pretty well done — and obviously [...]
Here’s what I found on the Android Developers Blog:
One of the new features we’re really proud of in the Android 1.6 release is Quick Search Box for Android. This is our new system-wide search framework, which makes it possible for users to quickly and easily find what they’re looking for, both on their devices and [...]
At the moment, I don’t have much time to spend on PackRat. In a way then, it’s a good thing that I’m still waiting for the ADC2 judging app to be made public — if PackRat had more attention right now, I’d find it harder to keep from improving it, and sticking to paid work.
When [...]
With only a few hours to spare, I just tagged version 1.0.11. Yay!
And after a final bit of testing, I also submitted it to the ADC2. Now PackRat’s fate lies in your hands, dear reader — I hope you like it, and if you do, please vote for it! I’d love to have the chance [...]
I wish I could already show off the app logo/icon.
Over the past few days, we — that is, Sander, Rob and I — have been discussion different versions of Sander’s sketches, and finally zeroed in on a design we all liked best.
Today Sander has show us a beautifully shaded version of that design. Since then [...]
I’ve said before that part of the reason for me writing this Android app is because I want to use it myself.
I figured now that it’s pretty much completed, the best real world test I can put it to is to feed it my own collections. So that’s what I proceeded to…
Granted, I didn’t quite [...]
As the Android Developer blog reveals, the Android Developer Challenge 2 is now open for submissions.
The key thing to remember is that all submissions must be entered by 11:59:59pm Pacific Time in the United States on August 31, 2009. If your applications are not submitted by that time, they won’t be eligible for participation. Please [...]
I have to admit, I was a bit worried.
Early on in the development process for this app, I asked a designer I know if he would like to create a logo/app icon for PackRat. He agreed, but his life turned out to be a bit more exciting than he’d planned, and that didn’t work out [...]
If you’re anything like me, then you collect a lot of stuff. But I don’t collect just any old stuff — I collect CDs, books, movies, games… well, pretty much any form of media.
Books and CDs present a particular problem to me, mostly because I already have a lot of each: I’m never entirely sure [...]
