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Developers can see the device and app version on each comment on Android Market

Inteist — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:31:16 +0000

Just noticed a nice update on developer facing Android Market panel. Now the developer can see the device user and the app version on each comment on Android Market. Which is a very nice addition to quite barren otherwise control panel. This will help to pinpoint problems more easily for the developers.

Another things that I would personally (and probably many of other Android developer as well) like to see are:

Andriod OS version
Possibility to answer to the comment – let the developer answer and send the answer to the user’s email automatically

iOS vs. Android vs. BlackBerry vs. Windows Phones

Inteist — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:40:59 +0000

Here’s the chart of smartphones market share according to market research firm NPD

Quite interesting trend can be seen by the end of the year with huge spike in iOS sales. This of course can be attributed to the iPhone 4S and the holiday season. Apple products are still considered luxury and make great gifts as opposed to say Android which is considered more of a necessity.

UPDATE:
Additional source (showing the same trend though) from Nielsen
***Note the shift in timeline. Otherwise the graphs correlate.

The power of SnapDragon processor with Adreno GPU

Inteist — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:30:18 +0000

Very energizing and inspiring video about Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor with the Adreno GPU. Wide deployment of the SnapDragon processors (including in the new iPhone 4S) makes it so more attractive to develop for.

If you are a game developer watch the video and get inspired!

Click to view in the full post

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Will Windows eventually loose portables war thanks to many ARM powered netbooks coming?

There was a problem generating the Feed story from the provided data – Facebook gives headache to developers once again

Inteist — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:56:16 +0000

Today I noticed that users of the Android app started experiencing problem with posting to Facebook, getting the following error:

There was a problem generating the Feed story from the provided data

There have already been a few threads on StackOverflow like this one for iOS and this one for Android.

It definitely like a problem Facebook created (once again – sigh)… I will try to update this entry with a resolution once there is one. Hopefully though Facebook developers will just fix this bug on their end as there are a lot of developers (including myself) who had their code working for months with no problems until today.

You can see the status of the bug and add yourself to the list here. Although the bug is open just for iOS, once fixed for iOS, it should be also fixed for Android.

If you happen to know how to fix this, please leave your response in the comments and I will update this entry so that others can fix this problem for their users in the meantime.

UPD: 6:45 EST – it seems that the problem has been resolved! Yey! Hopefully some users will realize that we (the developers) are not the ones to blame (most of the time) that Facebook integration suddenly stopped working. Hopefully the ones that realize this will stop giving bad ratings on App Store and Android Market because of that.

Interesting and amazing things you can do with a little creativity

Inteist — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:47:55 +0000

Using the latest version of Google Goggles on Android, you can automatically solve Sudoku. This is what a little creativity paired with technology does – it brings fun and innovation!

Check out the video of this in action!

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Android 2.4 codenamed Ice Cream is expected this summer. What’s next?

Inteist — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:34:50 +0000

The rumors have it that Android 2.4 codenamed Ice Cream is expected this summer in June-July and the release will be announced at the Google/IO.

What’s next in store for Android releases? Will the next release going to be named “Jello” or maybe “Jam”? I personally vote for “Jello”

Android – Can’t find my ADB

Inteist — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:33:54 +0000

Just installed the new Android SDK – 2.3 and wondering where’s “ADB”? Don’t worry it’s there.

In there recent release of the Android 2.3 codenamed “Gingerbread” the SDK’s directory was a little restructured. In particular the ADB (Android debug bridge) the tool that is used to communicate with the Android emulator instances and connected device has been moved. Previously you could find it in the

path_to_your_Android_SDK_installation/tools

folder.

But since the Android 2.3 (or API 9) the /tools folder was renamed to /platform-tools folder, so if you are wondering why suddenly your >adb command does not work – this is the reason and updating the PATH should fix it.

How to fix Android debug certificate expire error

Inteist — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:13:49 +0000

Problem:

You are getting the following error:

android Error generating final archive: Debug certificate expired on …

One day when you opened your Eclipse with Android tool chain installed, suddenly you see this error, which may seem weird because you know that Eclipse uses just some random certificate for debugging and so why is it expired and what to do.

The Solution:

Simply delete the keystore file which is located in

%USERHOME%/.android/debug.keystore (on Windows)

~/.android/debug.keystore (on Linux and OS X)

Restart your eclipse and you are all set.

Why this happens:

The reason to this is that the debug certificate is set to expire every year or 365 days.

If you do not wish to be bothered by this again in a year, you can use the keytool executable from the Android tool chain to generate a certificate with a longer expiration period.

Android vs. iPhone vs. BlackBerry Users

Inteist — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:48:20 +0000

This is a great comics I came across, very concise and true!

I especially liked the dinosaur. BlackBerry are dinosaur outdated both in the features and especially from the development perspective. I covered this before in my Android vs. BlackBerry development post.

Android expands support for paid application to more countries and developers

Inteist — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:40:28 +0000

In a recent blog post, Google announced that it is significantly expanding payment support both for developers and the users.

Developers in 29 countries will be able to sell their apps and users from 32 countries will be able to buy paid apps. The most recently added countries in which the Android users will be able to buy apps are: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, and Taiwan.

Addition to support of paid application distribution is expanded to the developers in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan.

Android is closing the paid application gap with the iPhone quite fast, while BlackBerry still lags behind.