Posts Tagged ‘android’
I was honoured when David Wood asked me to present at his first “brown bag” lunch lecture at Accenture.
Normally I would run through a presentation of this length at several different venues and thoroughly hone it before presenting at a high profile event. As you’ll see from the slides and video, it’s still a …
Sauntering down Oxford Street, Mauricio Reyes spotted Nokia’s secret Android plans.
Is this just a hapless Photoshop mistake – or a sign of things to come?!?!?!?!
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I attended the Mobile Monday meeting “200,000 Apps – Where’s Mine” last night.
One thing that became clear is that apps don’t do a very good job of promoting themselves. One crippling problems with most app stores is that there’s no (easy) way to share an app with a friend.
Here’s some basic code for an …
I’m not the biggest fan of Microsoft. Both my original Xboxes now run Linux, I’ve converted my laptop and computers to Ubuntu, and I generally laugh in the face of Microsoft’s increasingly desperate attempts to stay relevant.
So it was with great mirth that I went along to a BizSpark event a few weeks ago. …
Another quick Android tutorial. I couldn’t find an easy or correct method of launching a browser when you click on a homescreen widget. Well, here it is…
public class clickWidget extends AppWidgetProvider
{
@Override
public void onUpdate( Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds )
{
RemoteViews remoteViews =
new RemoteViews( context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget );
remoteViews.setImageViewResource(R.id.ImageView01, drawableResourse);
ComponentName myWidget =
…
This is a really geeky app! You know USSD? They’re the codes you can type in to your phone to send messages back and forth to the networks. You’ve probably seen something like *#147# to display the last caller.
My second app presents a series of buttons which call the USSD commands – so you …
I’ve been playing around with Android. It’s a great platform for development. I really appreciated the speed to release of the Android Market – it’s instant. Having worked with iPhone and Ovi stores where approval can take days or even weeks, it’s great to have the freedom to publish immediately.
The first app …
Once again my wrath is targeted at The Guardian, Barclays and Apple. Three massive companies – each one of whom could have stopped this advertising disaster.
Mistake #1
Take a look at this rather charming advert on the Guardian’s mobile site. The more astute among you will recognise the problem.
I’m being advertised an iPhone game …
I’m in the process of moving all my contacts from BlackBerry to Android. I’ve been moving contacts from phone to phone for close to 10 years – but I’ve never found a problem like this.
Getting my contacts from BlackBerry to Google was simple. I exported a VCF of all my contacts from Outlook …
I was mightily disturbed to receive an email from Google apparently telling me I had purchased a Nexus One phone. Had I been hacked? Had my credit-card details been used to buy a phone? Were Google sending me one for free?
Hello!
Your new Nexus One phone has many cool and useful features. Learn more by …
ARRRRRGGGGHHHH!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Due to a crazy taxi driver (are there any other kind) and a violent swerve, my BlackBerry Bold 9000 is no more. Bereft of life, it rusts in pieces, and other such Pythonesque metaphors.
Arse. I truly feel like I’m missing an extension to my body. There’s a symbiotic relationship which develops between …
