About ten days ago I finally received the OTA update for my Galaxy Nexus that would take it from 4.0.2 to 4.0.4. Of course it didn’t show up at a convenient time despite my numerous checkin requests over the previous two weeks, I was on the motorway, using Google’s Navigation app. Ten minutes later however …
Category Archive: Android
Mar 24
Dear Samsung… you’ll never be Apple
Samsung is a company that has successfully renewed itself in recent years. If I want a good quality and feature packed TV I look at Samsung, not Sony. And If I want a good looking, up-to-date Android device then they have some fantastic hardware that performs well and looks good. At Google I/O I got …
Dec 14
Social Apps on Android
At this year’s Devoxx, Google’s Tim Bray gave a thought-provoking keynote which covered several areas but what stood out for me were his comments around writing applications for Android. In summary his message was “give software away and sell a service” and “make it social”. Giving software away and selling a service is a whole …
Sep 22
Android, Grails and Heroku
Having published a first Android application Audio Clock in the Android Market my attention has turned to developing something new. Audio Clock was simple but this new application is on a whole other scale. Audio Clock had a minimal UI – in fact just some configuration views and a notification bar entry – and ran in the …
Jun 19
Galaxy Tab 10.1 USB File Transfer Issues Explained
Having struggled, cursed, been derided by iPad owners and got really irked over the synchronisation issues with the Galaxy Tab 10.1 I have spent some more time in the last few days looking into the problem in more detail. I was prompted to do this by the arrival, over the air, of Android 3.1 – …
May 16
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Google I/O Edition) – First Impressions
At Google I/O this year I was lucky enough to receive a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, one of the latest Android tablets to ship with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). However, being a Samsung item it does have its downsides. Samsung for some reason known only to themselves have endowed it with Samsung Kies, a synchronisation utility …
May 05
Using Maven for Android Development
As a habitual Maven user I’ve got used to the ease with which I can run through a build and test process and get a deployable artefact out at the end of it. I’ve been playing with Android for some time, and now I’m ready to do some serious development it is only natural that …
Sep 18
Get Your Act Together, Google
Having purchased and immediately returned one Android tablet because it lacked the Android Marketplace I’ve been doing some research into exactly what is available, or will shortly be available, in tablet form. There are a few promising things on the horizon or already here from some relatively big names – Samsung with the Galaxy Tab, …
