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Ice Cream Sandwich & Galaxy Tab 10.1

Evan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:30:14 +0000

For the last few days, I’ve been running Ice Cream Sandwich on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. If you only read this one sentence…you should now its fast!

Ice Cream Sandwich comes to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 by way of the CyanogenMod team and ROM developer Romanbb. CyanogenMod is the largest custom ROM [...]

The Real Reason Android’s UI Lags?

Evan — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:28:33 +0000

My number one gripe with Android (or at least my Samsung Captivate) is the relative lagginess of the user interface. Andrew Munn, a former software engineer intern on the Android team, lays out his theory, intertwined with tons of facts.

Andrew Munn’s primary explanation behind Android’s UI lagginess…the thread that is responsible for drawing [...]

Android Development: Downloading Files from a Network

Evan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:50:56 +0000

In GDocs Export, prior to version v2.0.1, I had overlooked a rather serious issue with mobile development.

The issue, limited memory. Android sets a virtual machine heap size, or the maximum amount of memory a process can allocate when running in a Dalvik virtual machine, which all Android applications run on if developed using [...]

GDocs Export News

Evan — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:45:08 +0000

Oi! I have a few points of interest as it relates to GDocs Export.

GDocs Export v2.0.1

I have updated GDocs Export to v2.0.1. This version fixes the crash when downloading files that exceed your devices dalvik virtual memory heap size, which can vary depending on the device. Instead of caching the entire file [...]

Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”

Evan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:55:18 +0000

Google announced Android 4.0, codenamed “Ice Cream Sandwich” this evening.

The most overarching takeaway I got from the live announcement was “Android is now all growed up”. �

Android 4.0 was released with a brand new Nexus device, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. It sports:

1.2GHz dual core SoC manufactured by Texas Instruments [...]

GDocs Export v2.0

Evan — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:13:22 +0000

It’s been a while since the last update. Here is GDocs Export v2.0. Read on for the changes.

Changes:

New look and feel New application icon Can now access and download every file in your Google Doc’s account Application remembers your sorting changes Additional support for DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX file types (can preview [...]

GDocs Export 1.2 Available

Evan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:31:47 +0000

GDcos Export 1.2 is available in the Android Market. New to this release include the ability to sort your list of documents and additional last modification metadata available in the document list. I am working hard to bring OAuth functionality to GDocs Export. I wasn’t able to bring it to 1.2, however look for [...]

New Android App Now Available

Evan — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:21:51 +0000

My 2nd Android app is coming soon now available: GDocs Export. I am running it through some last minute tests. I am aiming for Monday night or Tuesday morning for the release in the Android Market.

GDocs Export for Android

New WYSIWYG UI Designer in Android Dev Tools

Evan — Thu, 12 May 2011 16:47:28 +0000

Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O 2011, was held this week. The breadth of news involving Android, Chrome OS, and Google’s vision for the web in general was staggering.

However, something I can certainly appreciate is a new WYSIWYG user interface designer for Android developers. Currently, the ADT (Android Development Tools), included a frustrating [...]

Goo.gl-izer is in the Android Market

Evan — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:16:55 +0000

My first application is in the Android Market. Check it out.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.eeenno.GooGlizer

Let me know of any features (or problems you have) you’d like to see.

My First Android App: Goo.gl-izer

Evan — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:45:36 +0000

I present to you a pretty simple application…Goo.gl-izer. Goo.gl-izer makes use of the Goo.gl API to help you shorten URLs while you use Android. There are three ways to shorten URLs using Goo.gl-izer:

Open Goo.gl-izer from your application launcher. Enter the URL you want shortened in the first text box and press “Goo.gl-ize” [...]

Android Development: How to get a user authentication token on an Android device?

Evan — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:33:04 +0000

Soooo, as I am knee deep in development on my next Android application, one thing that took me sometime to learn was how to get the authentication token for a Google account (ie. GMail) on an Android device. You can use authentication token to interact with a user’s Google account such as get their Reader [...]

Mobile Application Ideas

Evan — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:23:04 +0000

What applications do wish existed for Android or Windows Phone 7? Let me hear them. I am brainstorming my next project.

Rooting Your Samsung Captivate & Removing AT&T Bloat

Evan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:38:54 +0000

First of all -> all the credit goes to ‘chaoscentral’ for the rooting procedure and ‘maerlim’ for instructions on removing the “features” added by AT&T.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damage that may occur to your handset or your life following the procedure laid out here.

How to root

Download the [...]

Android & Windows Phone 7 Development Diaries

Evan — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:44:50 +0000

I am going to try something new. I have decided to develop applications for both the Android platform and Windows Phone 7 platform. The initial applications I will hopefully be bring to both platforms before the year is over with.

Google Reader client with all the features of Speeed Reader Twitter Trends tracking [...]