Hey,
Recently, I got into native Android development.
While digging around for information, I stumbled upon this online course.
It is a recording of 5 class sessions, each session is 4 recordings.
I am only half way through it but so far It is informative, extensive and all-round a good course.
It's only disadvantage is that it is a video recording so it's hard (read impossible) to skim through it as you would skim a book.
Oh, almost forgot the link :)
A few weeks back I had a presentation on Smartphone Usabilty issues. I've attached the presentation here.
Enjoy!
With the introduction of the iPhone and Android Mobile devices a new medium was created. Touch-screens and smart mobile devices have created an historic technological revolution. These new devices are in the hands of millions of people all the time. With the mobile revolution, a new and unique opportunity has been created that companies can leverage to put their content into the hands of the masses.
When writing mobile applications over Flex 4.5.1, your application may be running in the background, even when pressing the back or home buttons on your device. This may become a problem if your application is doing things using timers, making server calls etc.
You can listen for Event.DEACTIVATE and Event.Activate events and stop or restart whatever is running in the background if you need to.
You do this over the NativeApplication, like:
When developing mobile applications with Flex 4.5.1 you are always going to have a short time until the application loads.
It is very recommended to add a splash screen to your application to ease the wait and improve the User Experience.
This can be done by adding the following to the main application tag:
splashScreenImage="@Embed('assets/images/splash.jpg')"
splashScreenScaleMode="letterbox"
Here is the presentation given at our last event about moving from Java to Scala.
The presentation show how Scala can be used instead of Java to get more concise and modular code gaining productivity and maintenance advantages. It use a simple Android application to show the transition. It touches simple Scala features that make us more productive as well as more advanced ones that make our code better.
Tikal's Community Android application, developed over Flex during Fuseday #3, is up on the Android Market.
All you out there with Android 2.2 and up, can install it directly from the market, just search for Tikal!