Monday, 30 March 2009

Developer News

For no particular reason other than to celebrate this particular Monday, I wanted to update developers on two Android-related news items. If...

Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize with stubs

Sharing and reusing layouts is very easy with Android thanks to the <include /> tag, sometimes even too easy and you might end up wit...
Monday, 9 March 2009

Software Update Available for the Android Developer Phone

Back in December , the Android Dev Phone 1 (ADP1) went on sale, giving developers access to unlocked hardware for their work. A few weeks ag...
Thursday, 5 March 2009

Window Backgrounds & UI Speed

Some Android applications require to squeeze every bit of performance out of the UI toolkit and there are many ways to do so. In this articl...
Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize by merging

In the previous installment of Android Layout Tricks , I showed you how to use the <include /> tag in XML layout to reuse and share ...