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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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0.9 SDK Tips #1: The Hidden Changes
This is the first in a series of blog posts to help those of you with M5 applications make the jump to the 0.9 SDK. Also, if you see a tutorial dated before mid-August, that tutorial is from M5, and so these blog posts may …
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Fun with Fonts
Inevitably, you’ll get the question “hey, can we change this font?” when doing application development. The answer depends on what fonts come with the platform, whether you can add other fonts, and how to apply them to the widget or whatever needs the font change. …
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Flipping Your Views
Let’s face it: phones are small. Even if you have a phone with excellent screen resolution, the physical screen size is still rarely over 3″x5″, since most people want phones that can fit in a pocket, purse, pouch, or poncho. This means your Android activities …
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Scripting Your Android Device
One of the issues that arose when Apple released the iPhone SDK earlier this year was the restriction on language interpreters: No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and …
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