The other morning I was sitting at my favorite coffee shop, having a discussion with one of my morning friends, on the kind of data your phone collects on you. As we talked thru my traditional soapbox of why I choose iOS over Android, they mentioned the experience of having an ad pop up in […]
Tag: Android
Local Engineer’s cool Pen
A couple of months ago I was given a PressurePen by Chuck N, from the local Triangle Mac Users Group. The idea was to play with it and write up a blog entry. I had been running iOS7 most of the summer, and the app didn’t seem to work with iOS 7 on either my […]
Android – Root or wait?
For my Android needs, I currently have an Galaxy Tab 2 (10 inch). It is running Android 4.2.1 and I have been wanting to install the latest version of Android, but Samsung has yet to roll the update out for my device. I have read that they are rolling it out around the world, but […]
Google Developer’s Conference
*** It seems that this post didn’t go up when I thought it would..not sure what happened (I am sure it is a users/poster error). I was lucky enough to have a very long drive during the Google IO keynote so I had time to listen to the livestream of all three hours while driving […]
Where does your App make it’s money
This week has been just as crazy as any other week, but I guess that’s a good thing. Had a great time this week at my first every iOS Meetup (a sister group of TMUG). While the group was small, we had a great time sharing new apps and ideas about using our respective devices. […]
What version of Android should you support?
During today’s flight to MacWorld/iWorld the Boeing 757 I was on, had to reboot their in flight entertainment system multiple times. These planes have been in service for some time. But the seats look to have been updated within the last 5 or so. I wasn’t surprised to see the Linux penguin during the boot […]
Appcelerator’s Quarterly Survey Results show iOS dominant in the Enterprise
For all the talk about how Apple is not enterprise friendly, I was surprised to find the news that more than 50% of enterprise app developers want to target iOS in the quarterly survey that Appcelerator runs. This shift from Android to iOS continues to reflect, in my opinion, the challenges of targeting Android’s plethora […]
Cross platform vs. Performance
I’ve been working with a small team to build a cross platform game leveraging the Cocos2D gaming engine on iOS. I chose this platform for a few reasons: 1) There is a really good book explaining the basics of game programming and the libraries. 2) There seems to be a good number of other people […]
Android ice cream sandwich
Yesterday, as I went thru my rss feeds, I saw the list of devices getting the update for ice cream sandwich – here. This notice got me thinking, how much will ice cream sandwich impact game development on android. I do not have an android device, but the adoption of android is taking off. Enterprises […]
Data Persistence Across Platforms
We are currently looking at Android for a version of WastedTime…Today when you purchase the iPhone app, you get a fully functioning iPad app two, not some cheap pixel doubling app. Given this, you may find yourself, like I do, having to chose between the iPhone and the iPad version for all your meetings during […]