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PhoneGap and Android on Windows

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Andrew

It seems there’s quite a lot of confusion on how to get up and running using PhoneGap for Android development on Windows. There’s a Getting Started with Android guide which is comprehensive, but doesn’t seem to resolve all problems. I’ll … Continue reading →

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Mobile platforms in 2015

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Andrew

Tomi Ahonen made a bold prediction of the top three mobile platforms in 2015: Android, Tizen, and iOS in that order. I disagreed, and made my own prediction: 140 characters were not enough to cover this, so here are some … Continue reading →

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CyanogenMod Galaxy S2 with a Mac

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Andrew

On installing cyanogenmod on the Samsung Galaxy S2 with a Mac. The stock OEM+Telco Android experience is pretty awful, with loads of crapware. The best solution to running Android on a mobile device is to flash it with CyanogenMod. If … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2011: Sunday

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Andrew

In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2011 day two: Sunday. Barebox Reason for attending this talk: to understand more of the technical details behind fast boot of Linux devices, which will be an important factor … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2011: Saturday

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Andrew

In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2011 day one: Saturday. FOSDEM is the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, an annual free event hosted in Brussels and entirely organised and run by volunteers. … Continue reading →

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At what price to community?

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Andrew

Dave has written a detailed post on the types of community that Tizen hopes to target. It’s great, and I recommend you read it through. For more background, you should also read my blog post on what’s really going on … Continue reading →

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Droidcon London 2011

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Andrew

I’m off to #droidconuk tomorrow and Friday, for a couple of days of Android immersion. Should be a useful benchmark for the adoption rate of Android by developers … looking forward to some interesting discussions. If you’re there, come say … Continue reading →

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The Lonesome Success of WebOS

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Andrew

In an overly dramatic article on Techcrunch, John Biggs talks about “The Lonesome Death of WebOS“. He cites some seemingly-poor sales of TouchPads through Woot, just 612 versus 2,288 for the Motorola Xoom. He then goes on to talk about … Continue reading →

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Android horror stories

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Andrew

I have a wonderful little Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro, which I won at last year’s Over The Air conference for my #blue / plaxo mashup. It’s currently running Android 2.1 (Eclair), updated from Android 1.6. Integration with Google’s services … Continue reading →

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Mean Time to Hello World

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Andrew

One simple metric every development platform could and should be judged on is “mean time to hello world” – how long it takes developers to track down links to basic tutorials on building and deploying the most simple of apps … Continue reading →

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