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Rotational Forces, Part Two
Learn another approach to handling rotation events in your Android application, in part two of our three-part rotation series in today’s episode of Building ‘Droids!
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Enabling the Ecosystem: voeveo, Part Two
This post, following yesterday’s Part One, continues our interview with Annabel Youens, Community Director of voeveo. AG: One of the pervasive fears in mobile development is exclusivity — are you aware of any arrangements that would prevent developers from listing their wares in Voeveo as …
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Enabling the Ecosystem: voeveo, Part One
Learn more about voeveo, another marketplace for Android applications (and more!), in an Enabling the Ecosystem interview in today’s episode of Building ‘Droids!
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Enabling the Ecosystem: AndAppStore, Part Two
We continue our interview on AndAppStore, an alternative marketplace for Android applications, in today’s episode of Building ‘Droids!
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Enabling the Ecosystem: AndAppStore, Part One
Learn more about AndAppStore, an alternative marketplace for Android applications, in an Enabling the Ecosystem interview in today’s episode of Building ‘Droids!
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Rotational Forces…On Your Android App
Learn how opening the T-Mobile G1′s sliding keyboard affects your Android application, in today’s episode of Building ‘Droids!
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What’s Your Preference: Part Two
Does your Android application have more preferences than really fit in a simple list? Learn how to add structure, in the form of categories and screens, in today’s episode of Building ‘Droids!
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iPhone and Android: Apples and Orchards
Android is less about open source or open communities or open markets or open systems, than it is about open opportunity. We need Android to succeed to ensure that open source, open markets, et. al. are a viable, not-too-crazy choice for people in the marketplace. This does not mean that “iPhone must die” or anything of the sort…
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What’s Your Preference: Part One
Android now has a preferences framework, which will build a preferences UI for you based on a description of the desired preferences. Learn the basics in today’s episode of Building ‘Droids!
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The One: Musings on Android 1.0 SDK and the G1
Both the Android 1.0 SDK and the T-Mobile G1 announcements had some interesting tidbits that didn’t attract all the news coverage, but might impact you as an Android developer in the coming weeks and months.
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Op-Ed: We Have Met Android, And It Is Us
Device users don’t buy “openness” – they buy benefits that they personally realize. And to that extent, Android will succeed or fail based on our efforts as developers. If openness is Android’s strength, it is up to us to make that meaningful to ordinary people.
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Layout Problems Redux: Hierarchy Viewer
In the previous Building ‘Droids post, we went through an exercise of figuring out what was going wrong with a RelativeLayout used as rows in a ListView. This exercise used “retro” diagnostic techniques, such as changing background colors, to see what’s going on. Two commenters, …
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Diagnosing Layout Problems
Yesterday, a post came over the transom on the [android-developers] Google Group, citing a problem in getting a RelativeLayout to work properly as a row in a ListView. Since I screwed up my initial response to that post, I figured I’d document and write up …
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