Android Development

Most likely you all heard about SOPA and/or PIPA and the partly successful fight against it.

We still have another very similar fight against an idea that might be even worse than the two mentioned.

ACTA is not only an European version of SOPA/PIPA it is very likely that every single country in the world can and will be participating.

So I recommend to read about ACTA and if you are against it: Fight against ACTA!

Spread the word! Share it on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Reddit… fight it! Fight for the Internet we all know! FIGHT!

I tried a lot to prevent that but I couldn’t anymore :/

Facts:

• I got caught by doing something not legal that a lot of people do anyway.
• I now have a bill of 1.700€ to pay (lawyer costs not included)
• I will remove the ads as soon as possible and as soon as I have payed the bill. Promised!

I don’t wait until I have the 1.700 bucks earned by the ads, its just a way to decrease the time until I have the bucks collected and until I am able to pay it.

I seriously hate it to do that, and it will stay by the one and only the time the bill isn’t payed… sorry

A long time ago I was much more active. I just wrote my bachelor and now I have much more spare time since it is (nearly) finished. I’m currently waiting for my last presentation and than I am ready to start my master study.

Anyway, until the next big thing catches me, I have some time and will start updating the posts on the blog. Here is my current todo, so you are prepared

1. Updating the 2d tutorial series to android 2.1 and much code improvements (will be published at once to prevent “code break”)
2. Same for the 3d tutorial series including an upgrade to OpenGL ES 2.0 and shader programming… how about some shadows?
3. Isometric playground for a game… not sure how complex it will be and how much I will cover, but stay tuned
4. Software related: I need to update the blog software, hopefully without trouble…

Thats the milestone for the next days, propably some weeks…

While my last design was a good decision at first (I like dark themes) the majority like light themes.
During some comments about the design, the readability and the usability, I decided to change the design.
I am a passable programmer, for Android and Web, but if I would create my own design, nobody would stay here to read articles. Thats the reason why I took, again, a free and non customized design for WordPress. Its called Arjuna-X.

If you see something doesn’t work or is simply bad, just leave a comment and I will try to change it.

Android 2.1 SDK is out. The API level changed to 7 but its mainly a minor update.
New stuff: the animated background you already know from Nexus One and a new SignalStrength class which provides information about the device’s current network signal.

Anything else are mainly new methods on already existing classes.

The update is available as a download or as an update in your SDK Manager.

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Greetings

Hello,

droidnova will be moved to a new and faster server tonight (European time).
I will inform you if everything is done. I hope you will enjoy the improved performance on the new server.

It is possible, that every new comment done in the next 24 hours may not survive the move. I will do my very best to prevent that.

I keep you informed!

Greetings

I am very interested in your list of wishes for our android development blog.

You want a tutorial about 3D, GPS, Game, Physics, Accelerator, Call, SMS, Browser or other stuff?
Tell us what you are looking for. What do you hope to find here?
Tell me everything concerning Android development.

Please take 5 minutes and tell me your list of wishes…

Dell plans to sell a Netbook with the Android OS.
The firm Bsquare got the task to adjust Android to the Netbook hardware and specification.

Beside Acer and HP there are now three PC manufacturers who will have PCs with Android.

Sources:
An Android Netbook From Dell?
Dell Studies Google’s Android for Future Products

T-Mobile starts the rollout of the new Android 1.5 version for every G1 device out there.
First it will be only accessible if your device uses wlan. The update has a size of 30MB and will not be downloadable on your PC.
When they start to rollout the update over GSM isn’t known by now.

We will switch to Android SDK 1.5 in the next days.