I just love the idea of auto updating apps in android 2.2 both from the perspectives of the developer and a user. As a developer this will help me make sure all of the users of my app are on the same version. As a user I don’t have to care about updates any more, less work for me and every thing should just work.
Posts Tagged ‘android’
The iPad SDK aka iPhone OS 3.2 SDK
28
Jan
The iphone 3.2 sdk does not support the iphones and ipod touches.
But there are new apis in the sdk, all of which are just for the ipad. There is an api to handle documents much like a desktop os. Some new kind of views etc. etc.
But this ipad is very iphnoeish down to the OS level. So i believe ra1ndrop would also work on it ????? it can be jailbroken and then we have multitasking on it. wohoo ? not really! official multitasking support would mean $$ opportunities.
They say its another gold rush, i am not sure. I would hope for one but do people have more 500$ to burn after they have already burned/are burning quite a huge sum on the iphone?
But any ways, any other mobile os (except windows mobile and blackberry) would be good on it. Symbian, Maemo, Android or WebOS.
My first application on the android market.
19
Jun
I published my first app on the android market a couple of days ago. The whole experience of android development and publishing has been much different from any other platform i have been involved with earlier. Much easier is the overall conclusion, of the two new mobile platforms i.e. Android and iPhone I believe android is probably more easier to develop for, mostly because of the Java language and their use of much more universal programming approaches, iPhone has good UI development tools but objective c and some other weird things that they introduce takes a little time getting used to. There is just too much hassle involved with iPhone but it is THE platform these days if a developer wants to make serious money, my android app was downloaded more then a 100 times on its first day, and android is not even that popular yet.
Frustrated with iPhone, happy with android
28
May
I applied to the Apple’s iPhone developer program about a month ago, I did not recieve a reply for about 3 weeks. When they did ask me to send some documents, I had a few questions which again are waiting for a reply. So I told them to cancel my request to join the iPhone developer program. Seems like they dont need any more people writing software for iPhone. I can basically agree with that, so many new apps are coming to the Apple app store every day now, making it pretty easy for an application to fall into oblivion and go un noticed. So seems like I will probably hack my iPod and move to Cydia store.
However android has been a totally different story, first of I just love the android sdk, its so much better/affordable and easier to use, I had to buy a mac mini just to be able to run the iphone sdk ( i might sell it now, with no more plans to target iphone ), unlike iphone I dont have to learn a new language, Objective-C is one of the most idiotic things I have ever seen. Java syntax is easy, eclipse is familiar, the documentation is simple and to the point. Unlike Apple I didnt have to wait for weeks with Google, I got access in just a couple of days ( that too because of weekend ). So seems like my android development days are going to start.
Still the QT port for symbian is taking too much time, and I cant publish apps for Symbian/Nokia Ovi store unless I register a company, lets just hope that Nokia sorts those things out soon.