I've had an old Samsung Galaxy S Captivate phone, running Android 2.2, that I've used as a test device while developing Android apps. In my new job, I no longer need to support Android 2.2 (hooray!), but I do need to support Android 2.3 (boo!). I tried …
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My HTC One Review
Trying Out CyanogenMod on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0
Last year, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 for use as an Android development/testing device. I didn't expect it to be good, and it wasn't. It was slow, clunky, and ugly in comparison to the iPad, just like every other Android tablet. But it was cheap …
Transferring Ringtones from iTunes to an HTC One
I had some ringtones purchased from iTunes that I wanted to put onto my new HTC One. Googling for instructions found many hits, but many of those pages were a few years old, so the instructions didn't work anymore, or they didn't work with the HTC One, or were six-minute-long …
Customizing Android Action Bar for Edit Mode
I spent a long time trying to get a contextual action bar (CAB) working for an editing mode in an Android app I'm developing. My goal was to have a CAB appear whenever the user started changing field values on a screen, and the user would tap the Done button …
Android SDK Tools 22.0.1 Considered Harmful
After finishing up some work on an iOS app today, it was time to go make equivalent changes to the Android port of that app. "I'll just update my Android SDK before I get to work," I said (to myself). I opened the Android SDK Manager and let it update …
My Android Development Cheatsheet
If I had my druthers, I'd spend all my time developing mobile apps. I've always been fascinated with pocket-sized computers, and have owned many through the years. Unfortunately, for most of my life such devices have been little more than toys, and so I've had to focus my expertise on …
My Visit to Android-land
I've been a happy iPhone and iPad user for a while, but I'm currently involved in developing Android applications, so I decided to buy an Android phone to use for a few weeks. It's important to understand the user-interface conventions and user expectations for whatever platform you are developing for …
Native Apps vs. Web Apps
This week, there was a lot of chatter in the blogosphere about the prospect of writing web apps for the iPhone instead of developing native apps.
The furor started with Peter-Paul Koch's profanity-laden rant entitled "Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid.". In this post, PPK asserts that most …
Android: Maybe Not
A couple of days ago, I said I was considering giving up on iPhone development and trying Android instead. Here are my further thoughts along those lines.
First, I downloaded the Android SDK, did a little reading, and went through the Hello, world! tutorial to bring up an app in …
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