Category: Mobile Development
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AWS SDK for Android – A Library for Building Android Applications on Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, and more.
I am a big fan of Amazon Web Services. We use it for the serverside components of our Android application Keyapt. Today I came across this useful SDK that helps you use AWS services from within Android applications. AWS SDK for Android The AWS SDK for Android provides a library, code samples, and documentation for…
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Skype on Android – save serious money
I provide FogBugz training and spend quite a lot of time on the phone to the USA. I prefer to use my mobile phone with its headset but I really don’t like paying £ 1.76 per minute or whatever it is. I don’t even know what 02 charge me because I can’t understand their tariff.…
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Firefox maker moves towards a browser-free world • The Register
This is an interesting article about mobile, web and HTML5. Mobiles need ‘a strong infusion of Mozilla values’ via Firefox maker moves towards a browser-free world • The Register.
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Android-12 (Honeycomb) emulator does not work
If you have recently updated your Android SDK you will find this target; id: 17 or “android-12” Name: Android 3.1 Type: Platform API level: 12 Revision: 2 Skins: WXGA (default) You may be lured into creating an emulator using it. If you do, don’t expect it to work. I wasted…
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Cloud Computing World Forum review – Microsoft strong, others weak
I attended the Cloud Computing World Forum at Olympia on Tuesday. It was good size show and reasonably well attended for what is an Enterprise topic. The keynote speakers were all heavyweight and gave good talks. The show was themed A,B,C = approach, build and communicate (social) and this worked well. What was odd is…
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unix shell or Windows Powershell?
Chris and I are building a complex application called Keyapt SMS. It has a mobile component, a server component and a pure JavaScript front end. The source and build control requirements for this are complex. We manage the source and build control in FogBugz and Kiln (Mercurial). [We also provide training in these]. Chris a…
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Amazing statistics on smartphone usage in Europe
Following hot on the heels of the Vision Mobile report on the future of smartphone development comes a post from Flurry analytics. Flurry is installed by SmartPhone developers to monitor the usage of their applications. So successful has it been that they are installed on 85% of all smartphones and track over 15 Billion user…
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Which mobile platform should I develop for?
I have been working in the enterprise Java space for many years and this domain is now rapidly becoming “legacy” (ie. the stuff that just works and makes the business all its money). The exciting sexy stuff is all MOBILE! So where should I be putting my developement effort? Android, Apple, Blackberry or Windows? We…
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Create data centric products to get rich
Data, not software, paves the road to riches via Data, not software, paves the road to riches • The Register. This is an interesting article. I would also add that data is the only long-term competitive advantage. With any product you want a positive feedback effect; each new sale should increase the value of the…
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Play a wav sound when your ant build has completed
I have spent the day doing various ant builds. I leave the build running and sometimes don’t notice that it has finished or failed along the way. Wouldn’t it be nice if the ant script went beep on success or failure? Well at the Windows 7 command prompt you can do prompt> (CALL ant dist…
Dr James Bayley 