Android :: Which Mobile Platform Would Be More Rewarding To Learn As Developer?

Oct 1, 2009

I am interested in getting my feet wet in PDA/mobile development.The only two drivers for me are the drive to learn cool (or at least, new) stuff, and may be to code some app that I felt I really needed but lacked. As such, I would like to know what the comparative benefits/downsides would be for me as a developer in choosing one of the three platforms (iPhone vs Palm Pre vs. Android.I will have access to any of the 3 but not to Windows mobile).This is not a duplicate of this question, since I do not care at all about that question's data points (cost of the handheld, popularity of the platform). Also, just to be clear, my goal is not financial at all - I don't plan to make money off of such development nor directly use the skills in the area I might obtain in my career (e.g. I work on stuff that has zilch mobile exposure and will remain so). So concerns such as "installed user base" are pretty irrelevant. All I care about are tangible (learning) and intangible (sheer joy of it) benefits to me as a developer.Also, please be positive and don't put down other platforms or otherwise use this as a holy platform war excuse. I have edit privileges and will mercilessly edit any un-backed-up-by-facts attacks on any platform that aren't downvoted.

Android :: Which mobile platform would be more rewarding to learn as developer?


Android :: Learn Mobile Programming On Platform

Nov 14, 2009

I'm beginning to learn mobile programming on the Android platform. I'm up for working with any particular base SDK. I just want to hear some suggestions from the community about what types of applications I should start with to help learn more advanced interactions with the platform.There are of course the Standard Hello World, calculator, etc. But by now I am bored with all of those.What do you all make when learning a new language?

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Android :: How To Learn IPhone Development From Perspective Of Droid Developer?

Jul 31, 2010

I consider myself an Android developer, after having created four apps and learned a lot by creating them. Now I've begun my venture into the iPhone app development world, and I don't remember the Android learning curve being this extreme. It doesn't help, though, that I was very familiar with Java and Eclipse whereas I hardly even know how to use OS X. I learn fast and I know exactly what I want to make, I just need the means to get there. I'm really floundering with Xcode and the new project templates (of which there are several, and I hardly know what they mean). I know there are many books and things out there for starting from scratch but I feel like my Android knowledge should count for something. Is there a good resource for learning the basics of iPhone development, given that I am quite familiar with the Android platform? I'm looking for anything that converts Android knowledge to iPhone knowledge; a table of UI element names in each platform, or of concept equivalents, or a compare/contrast of the frameworks involved, or anything that will increase the rate of learning given that I know the Android platform already.

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Android :: What Mobile Platform Should I Start Learning?

Jul 7, 2009

What mobile platform should I start learning?

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Android :: 3D Engines For Development On Any Mobile Platform

Sep 29, 2009

I am planning to develop a game for all of the mobile platform and have pretty much zeroed down on the concepts of the game. but the only issue I'm facing as of now is that I have no idea what would be the best libraries + 3d Engine to us to achieve the best results on the hardware on some of the upcoming mobiles. I'm talking about the iPhone 3GS, the new WinMo and Android devices with the famed Snapdragon, other processors from Samsung, ARM, Qualcomm and even Intel and AMD.as of now i plan to use the ogre libraries for now, but then what will offer portability?? This is much more of a design question rather than just coding. Any help is appreciated, others who wish to collaborate are very much welcome too. just drop me a mail.

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Android :: Download File On Mobile Platform

Jul 5, 2010

I've some files stored in a SQL database. When a user visits a url with the given ID, the BLOB data is retrieved from the database to the webbrower However, the iPhone (Safari) can't download a *.txt and *.doc file. It says: "Safari can't download this file". A pdf can(!) be downloaded and viewed.On Android none of the files can be downloaded.Is this because the iPhone and Android just can't handle all files? Or am I doing something wrong in the Response.

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Android :: AR On Mobile Phones Using Adobe Flash Platform?

Nov 13, 2010

I am interested in implementing an Augmented Reality application for mobile phones using Adobe Flash Platform.
Can you please let me know if any sources is available for me to find out how to start? I'm not sure what software I need to use to implement AR but as I can understand I need: ARToolKit Marker Generator to create the marker matching with the 3D image, then FLARToolKit to analyze the image from the marker and Papervision3D to create an object that shares that same space with the marker. Can you please let me know if what I wrote is correct and advise me how to start the implementation on Adobe Flash platform?

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Android :: Developing Cross Platform Mobile Application

Jul 30, 2010

More and more mobile platforms are being launched and sdk's are available to developers. There are various mobile platform are available,Android,iOS,Moblin,Windows mobile 7,RIM,symbian,bada,maemo etc.

And making of corss platform application is headache for developers. I am searching common thing across the platforms which will help to developers who want to port application to all platforms.Like what is the diff screen resolution, input methods, open gl support etc. please share details that you know for the any of platform . or is there possibilities , by writing code in html (widget type of thing) and load it into native application. I know about the android , in which we can add the web view into application. by calling setContentView(view)

Please share the class details where we can add the html view into native application of different type of platforms that you know.

Purpose of this thread is share common details across developers. marking as community wiki.

Cross platform tools & library

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Android :: Cross Platform Mobile File Upload Possible?

Apr 18, 2010

I need as simple as possible solution for uploading files (eg. photos) to my website from mobile devices (iPhone, Android, BB, Nokia). Is it possible to do it in same way? Using Java or XHTML?

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Android :: Encrypt Outgoing Data? (any Mobile Platform)

Sep 13, 2010

Would it be possible for me to build an application that enables people to encrypt call coming to me with my public key and then for me to decrypt the call data at my end using my own private key. This way I basically have a more secure communication channel which I am assuming because RSA is hard to crack would be difficult to monitor.I am asking this question from a research point of view and have absolutely not considered the factor as to how computationally feasible would such an application be. I would just like to know if there is a way for me to intercept my outgoing data using any built functions.

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Android :: Developign X-platform Mobile Apps On Ubuntu

Oct 16, 2010

I'm a junior iphone developer and got familiar with developing on xcode on top of Mac OS.I wanna build some Cross-Platform apps in the near future and wanna Use Ubuntu as my Operating system.I found many solutions that run only on Mac OS or need mac to build apps for iphone but this is not what i need. i need something which can keep me far from mac (for some reasons).I heard about AIR packager for iOS and that also AIR does apps for android but i'm not a flash guy (but can learn if it will do the job), so i wanna guidance from experience people like you about what is the suitable route should I take.

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Android :: Web Apps For Cross Platform Mobile Software Development?

Feb 8, 2010

I am a C++ programmer interested in developing applications for Android as well as the iPhone platform. I have explored both these platforms by writing simple applications in Java (Android) and Objective-C (iphone). But the fact is that I am not comfortable with either of these languages, and it bothers me that I have to write 2 very different versions of the same application to support both platforms. (And then what do I do to run it on a Nokia phone?)Is using web technologies (JavaScript/HTML/CSS) a viable solution for writing apps which will run on multiple mobile platforms? I have heard of Appcelerator and PhoneGap, but I am not sure how mature these products are. I'd appreciate any feedback from folks who have used web apps as a solution for developing cross platform mobile apps.

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Android :: What Is Best Approach To Develop Multi-platform Mobile Application?

Jun 4, 2010

We need to make an application that runs on iPhone, Android and BB. What is the best approach to write the least ammount of code? I know about some frameworks but I am not sure the best approach.

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Android :: What's Quickest Mobile Platform To Create Bluetooth Application On?

Aug 26, 2010

Most of the time I write code for embedded modules or small programs on my computer to analyze data that said code generates.Now I've been asked to prototype a mobile application to analyze/display that data instead.I have no (6-year old CS101) experience with either of the popular languages (Obj-C/Java?), let alone with any of the APIs/libraries available on the 4-5 popular mobile OSs, so I'm more or less at square one.Adapting the embedded hardware to talk to a phone is fairly straightforward, just add a Bluetooth module that I can configure to emulate a serial port (using SPP profile), but I don't know where to start on the other side.What sort of mobile OS/device should I target for ease/speed of developing a Bluetooth serial port profile (SPP) application from having equal (no) experience on them all?

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Android :: Which Mobile Platform To Use Creation Of Musicians Support Application?

Sep 22, 2009

I'm a programmer looking to play in the mobile world. The application I'd like to play with would support my musical hobbies. I suspect a mobile phone with a music player could easily be programmed to support a classical musicians practice sessions. Access to media player APIs without the need to open external apps or do clunky things with files.Adequate access to playback API to create specific notes and beat patterns. As a hobby application, this should not require expensive tooling.I can switch to a new phone to use the application. Bonus points for something that easily ports to a netbook.I will admit I new to the world of sexy phones. I currently use an obsolete voice device with text messaging. I won't revealing my current flavor of programming because learning a new platform is just fine.

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Android :: New Version Of File Manager Rewarding Contribution Challenge

Oct 6, 2010

New version 1.2 of ScaliCommander is available:
- Search: browse results while searching, sort while searching, search inside ZIP, filter by file type
- long-click for context menu, long-click / double-click for drag-select
- color gradients and glow
- drag-and-drop with multiple items, clipboard, trash
- Contribution Challenge, first round: 5 *1000
- Discover the features find out why ScaliCommander is the most advanced file manager for a mobile device and consider how it can get even better
- Contribute your way
--> find bugs
--> make videos/screenshots/tutorials/ to show the features
--> compile the best color themes
--> suggest features
--> whatever YOU think helps most to improve ScaliCommander!
send your contributions to gslngr@googlemail.com
- Get rewarded
--> make ScaliCommander known - rate it on the market, post a comment, report about it in forums,--> When the full version of ScaliCommander hits 10,000 downloads, gslngr Soft will reward the 5 best contributions with 1000 each!

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Android :: After Building Platform Source - How To Sign Arbitrary APK With Platform Key

Nov 22, 2010

As an experiment, I would like to use the platform key of my custom built Android platform to sign an arbitrary APK, that is built via the NDK. What is the process to go about doing this?

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Android :: Flurry Analytics Vs Google Analytics On Mobile Platform

Jun 29, 2010

I am working on a mobile app on the Android platform (and going forward for the iPhone) and am evaluating the Flurry Analytics and Google Analytics platforms for the app. Both platforms have SDKs for the Android and the iPhone and seem very similar in most ways.

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Android :: Where To Go To Learn Java?

Dec 26, 2009

Duplicate: Question 167179: Java Tutorial

I want to learn Java because I want to program for the Android but don't know the best place to look. Where did you go.

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Android :: Application Book To Learn

Nov 12, 2010

I want to buy a book about android, not just some demo samples, I want to learn real android app from the book, which book should I buy?

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Android :: Best Book To Learn Programming

Jun 25, 2010

Can anyone recommend a good Beginner Android programming book? When I was in college about 20 years ago I used to program a lot (Basic, Pascal, COBOL, Fortran). I dabbled a little bit in VisualBASIC about five years go, but it was really a hack. Now, I really have a burning desire to write some applications for my Android phone, but I really don't know anything about all the new programming technologies (OOP etc). I'm looking for a good book that will teach me modern programming using Java and the Android platform.

I've seen good books on learning Java 6 and some good books on programming Android (but they all seem to assume you know Java or C), but nothing that seems to combine the two. I'd really like to learn Java right on the Android platform to begin with if possible. I know there are a lot of resources available online but unfortunately much of the time that I will spend on this endeavor is when I won't have internet access so a good book would go a long way.

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Android :: OpenGL ES Lagging - Learn ES 1.0?

Jan 22, 2010

Why is support for OpenGL lagging so far behind with Android? I have ebooks that date OpenGL 1.0 ES back to 1997 or so. I don't understand why ~13 year old technology is what's being offered in the Android API. Could someone enlighten me? What's the best path for someone wanting to learn OpenGL ES 1.0? The ebooks I have are of course not oriented for Java/Android and most everything in them doesn't work when I try it. I can post some specific examples later but at this point I'm just wondering if I'm wasting time or if I should keep going and struggle through it. I have a tiny amount of OpenGL experience but it's with 2.0 and apparently things were very different back in the ES 1.0 world. I guess my question boils down to, is OpenGL ES 2.0 support coming to Android anytime soon? And what OpenGL ES 1.0 + Android learning resources already exist?

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Android :: Which GUI Framework Learn To Know Scripting / HCI?

Mar 6, 2010

I have some knowledge about Human computer interaction and some basic knowledge programming scripts (Python) that run from start to finish and automate some tasks I want to do or calculations. In the past I built interfaces in HTML with PHP behind it. I would like my python scripts to evolve from the command line and build some applications with GUIs that would allow the user to drag files and push buttons to initiate operations and check progress graphically. Since I write my scripts in Python I looked at some of the options (Tkinter, wxPython, PyQt) but I can't make a decision between them to invest my time learn one and not the other. My criteria: Has a introduction for programmers for GUI (what are the differences from a script, examples of some simple interfaces). A framework that would allow me to run my programs on the platforms I use most (Windows) but that can also run on Mac and maybe Linux, without too much modification. If not the same, similar to how you program GUI for Android and/or Nokia smartphones. I'm planning to write some programs for these platforms in the near future so I would like to carry over some of the lessons here onto those platforms, if possible. I did find this previous question but none of the answers are satisfactory. Does any of the frameworks fit these requirements better than the others or are they essentially similar and I would be happy with any of them?

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Android :: Learn J2ME For IPhone Development

Oct 7, 2009

I want to learn mobile programming, specifically Android or iPhone programming, but not sure if it is necessary to learn J2ME before working with Android or iPhone. I know only core Java (and OOP concepts very well).

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Android :: Way Of Learn What Triggering Apps To Launch?

Jul 3, 2010

I've noticed that no apps are running according to Task Killer. I do NOTHING on my phone and look at Task Killer again and see that several applications are NOW running in the background. Is there anyway of learning what is triggering them to launch ?

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Android :: Should I Learn Java Before Learning Droid?

Aug 16, 2010

Should I learn Java before learning Android or I can do both things in parallel? What is the best approach?

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Android :: How To Learn Droid Build System

Feb 4, 2010

Could anybody give me some suggestion about android build system? It is too difficult for read to me.

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Android :: Help A Newbie Learn Eclipse / Debugging Best Practices

Jul 25, 2010

I am a newbie to Android and the Eclipse development environment and would like some advice on best practices for debugging my apps when they throw a Force Close.I have researched ADB, however, I can not get this to interact with my phone even though I have explicitly turned debug mode to true on my test handset.Obviously Android comes with a LOG method which I have seen utilized in many example apps, can someone please explain how to review these logs quickly and how to setup logging appropriately to determine the cause of a Force Close (always occurs when I push the Home button).Any advice on debugging effectively in Eclipse would be much appreciated!

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Android :: Want A Site / Book To Learn Using Http Methods For Phone?

Apr 28, 2010

As part of the college mini-project, I am developing a micro-blogging platform for Android. I am planning to use Django framework in python to handle the communication between Android and remote server so as to make database API independent. I heard its best practice to use HTTP methods for the communication. Which is the best site/book to learn using HTTP methods for Android?

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Android :: Try To Learn Java For Phone Devices / Update Function Not Working

May 14, 2010

I try to learn java for android devices. i have to create the update function. But still have one question: How?

in class root

public void update(){maindebug("update"); // This is my debug function}
public void run(){ while(isRunning){ // isRunning is a boolean variable
SystemClock.sleep(100);
update();}}

and inside onCreate run(); but it doesnt work.

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