June 2011
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Apple online store - rant
Apple recently announced their iCloud ( fancy for “i store shit on the internet, but cloud sounds cooler” ). One of the promises of that - that you stuff should be all synced up on apple services and you can operate with your files regardless which device you using. I would totally expect for Apple at least sync up their stuff too, just as user trial if anything else. Basically...
December 2010
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I don't like Nexus S being released and here is...
Yesterday Google announced release of next google experience phone Nexus S. I’m a big fan of google experience phones and I do think that Nexus One was the best device on the market. Do i think that Nexus S is better than Nexus One ? Um, yes and no . Why don’t i like Nexus S ? I do like it as a phone. However, i do believe it’s not gonna sell well enough. And then it...
October 2010
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Last week ( recap )
Week of 10/18 turned out to be pretty eventful. First thing first - Starting Nov 1, I join Sprint fulltime. I think i got into coolest teams in Sprint and in big corporations, team does matter. Very exited and looking forward to all that. As a result my Nexus one have been sold to some friends and after 10 years with T-mobile i’m switching mobile carrier. Oct 20th - Apple had their...
August 2010
1 post
Friday morning rant or #thingsthatmakesyougohmm
So, since yesterday i’m one year older and grumpier. This morning i’ve open my buzz timeline and found that google people, like Reto LIKED new tweetdeck client. I realize its beta, and fully support creative UI. But lets just all agree that some things UX wise should be consistent through platform and the apps. So here my rant comment to Reto’s post<rant>Ok, Reto, i’m...
July 2010
1 post
Focus on View in the AppWidget
If you want your widget to be able to focus on individual views inside it you need those views be clickable and focusable AND have background/or images to support state. Nice example of such drawable in Jeff’s Sky widget. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- Copyright (C) 2009 Jeff Sharkey, http://jsharkey.org/ Licensed under the Apache License,...
June 2010
3 posts
First day with iPhone from Android developer.
Hey i got iPhone ! Step away from that “unfollow” button twitter friends. Here is the story. I’m going to switch to Sprint, but my contract with TMO is expiring in Sep/Oct. In meanwhile i was using test phones which is inconvenient cause i have to flash them every week. Hence i needed tmo phone. The only one i want is N1. But i didn’t want to spend 530$ on a phone for...
Scroll ListView to position.
1 I needed to scroll the list ( ExpandableListView to be exact ) to position. 1 I found this thread where Romain Guy said it got fixed in Froyo. And it is. There is a smoothscrollToPosition in SDK8 and up. As i needed to go lower than 8 here is mine workaround. If anybody knows better way let me know. 1 2 class ScrollList extends Thread { 3 4 final int position =...
My thoughts on android UI.
On May 11th i wrote small blog entry about changes i’ve noticed around android UI in the apps created by google. Apparently it was a good timing. Because on May 12th , android team posted in their blog “Twitter for android : closer look at android’s evolving UI patterns” which was followed by google io session Android UI design patterns . Key word here is evolving. If...
May 2010
2 posts
Google changing UX around android apps ?
Lately i’ve notice that android apps created by google use different UI patterns from the “standard” look that we know since 1.0. 25px boring grey title, listviews with black backgrounds, shadows here and there, gradients. Here are, two very simple app to illustrate the look. From 2.0 i started notice change in direction - first was change of icons from angled shadow look...
Magna Tiles - awesome toy for kids
Ok, enough android and other tech stuff. I want to advertise a toy. If you’re a parent, you know how hard is to go through the piles of crap in toy store and find something useful. So here i present http://www.magnatiles.com/ . This is absolutely awesome toy. My daughter (4y.o) absolutely loves and able to play with it every day. It does take about a week of building with your child, so...
April 2010
1 post
My thoughts about flood of tweets in relation to...
Today during/after announcement of iPhone 4.0 OS, i’ve seen number of tweets from my dear friends with #Android tag and comments like - Changing wallpaper! Wow! Wish Android had th- oh it does too. Wow, that is so innovative.. wow! /sarcasm ;) OS 4 is finally catching up with #Android. I do love android OS, and my job where i code apps for android. But in my opinion android or any...
March 2010
1 post
Life is changing fast...
Me and my wife finally decided first vacation in 4 years and went to Mexico for a week with kids, which was great. I’ll write about this sometime later. I came back rested and ready for work. We came back March 3, which was Wed. On Friday, i finally start managing my inbox and found email from recruiters that Sprint is looking for android people. Since i was pretty happy with my job...
January 2010
7 posts
Google making things right with China policy :...
“We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.” via...
moved blog to thumblr
may be i’ll start to blog more in 2010
Stackoverflow #android →
From android blog:
Over the past year, an Android presence has been growing on a relatively new technical Q&A web site called Stack Overflow. The site was designed specifically for programmers, with features like syntax highlighting, tagging, user reputation, and community editing. It’s attracted a loyal software developer community, and developers continue to express great praise for...
“All these–the sort of people that lived in these houses, and all those damn...”
– H.G. Wells. 1898
September 2009
1 post
2 tags
App Review: Express News →
Another review of Express News by AndroidGuys
May 2009
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Android Review: Handmark’s Express News. Verdict:... →
Review of Express News, product that i’ve worked at Hanmark
“Not only is the readability great, but the navigation setup is brilliant – but it needs a tutorial for first time users. Instead of going back to the main page or any category choice, users can ‘flip’ through articles and topics with a swipe of the finger. It’s a great feature for those who enjoy skim-reading; stories...
February 2009
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@Override specification changes in Java 6
from here
Between Java 5 and Java 6 changes to the specification of @Override have been made. In Java 6 it is possible to add the @Override annotation to methods that implement methods of an interface which is not allowed in Java 5.
I noticed the difference when a friend told me that he had to remove all the @Override annotations to make his Java 6 project compile with Java 5.
The interesting...
January 2009
1 post
Tracking memory leaks in Android
If you think you’re leaking memory – try force configuration changes in your app and you’ll find out for sure .. read two excellent posts by Romain Guy
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.html dev group – out of memory