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Muthu Online — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:02:26 +0000

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Android Tab Widget

Android Application Design/Dev Basics : 2

Muthu Online — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:41:03 +0000

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My First Android App

Android Application Design/Dev Basics : 1

Muthu Online — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:41:48 +0000

Do check out Android UI guidelines and their notion of Applications, Activities & Tasks

Do read Hello World as well

Install Eclipse IDE, Android SDK Plugin for Eclipse

Here are some rough notes:

Android Dev

All images should be placed under Res > Drawable.

If multiple devices and resolutions are targetted, images should be placed in the corresponding hi/low/med dpi folders.

Layout is specified under Res > Layout

Manifest is an important config file that should not be renamed.

Application tag is used to specify that this is an application and not a service.

App name is set here

“Android: Icon” sends pointer to the the app icon, which should be placed in the Drawables under Resources

Pre-defined category “launcher” is used to launch the app when the app icon gets clicked.

Layouts may contain views and sub views.

Android UI design patterns

Muthu Online — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:17:44 +0000

Android vs iPhone : Front End Dev

Muthu Online — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:12:38 +0000

On Android phones, to set the initial page zoom level and disable the user controlled zoom, add the following code.

meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width; initial-scale=1.3; minimum-scale=1.3; maximum-scale=1.3;”/. Ensure that the scale have a min value of 1.3

For iPhone, add this code
meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;”/

Welcome Email from Android

Muthu Online — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:44:18 +0000

Just received this nicely crafted email from the Android Team. I liked the way, the getting started video thumbnails were in-lined/embedded along with learn more and Android playlist on youTube.com links, within this email. Only issue was that, this Email came 2 days late.

Welcome to Android!

Your new Android-powered phone has many cool and useful features. Learn more by clicking on the links to watch brief YouTube videos directly on your phone.

Once the video has started playing, press your phone’s menu key, select “More,” and then select “Watch in high quality” to view the video in higher resolution:

* Customize your Home Screen. Learn more.
* Use shortcuts, widgets, and folders. Learn more.
* Run multiple applications at the same time. Learn more.
* Use long press to quickly access more features. Learn more.
* Experience the web on your browser. Learn more.
* Search the web and your phone with Quick Search Box. Learn more.
* Keep in touch with friends and family with Contacts. Learn more.
* Get cool applications and games on Android Market. Learn more.

You can find all these videos and more on the Android 2.0 playlist at youtube.com/androidtips.

Enjoy!
The Android Team at Google

Google, Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
We sent you this one-time welcome message because you recently purchased an Android-powered phone

Smartphone OS web requests in Oct 2009

Muthu Online — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:58:06 +0000

Sounds like at iPhone and Android will be the leading mobile web platforms going forward.

October Worldwide Smartphone OS web requests:

iPhone 50% (43% in April)

Symbian 25% (36% “)

Android 11% ( 3% “)

RIM 7% ( 9% “)

Windows Mobile 3% ( 5% “)