This is looking seriously cool. The phone version of the Android Market is going to change for better:
The new Market client is designed to better showcase top apps and games, engage users with an improved UI, and provide a quicker path to downloading or purchasing your products. For developers, the new Android Market client means more opportunities for your products to be merchandised and purchased.
Read more on the Android developers blog.
Flash Development for Android Cookbook by Joseph Labrecque is now out for sale and I'm very proud to be among the book's technical reviewers! The book contains 372 pages of useful information and solid recipes for developing killer Android applications using Flash Platform technology.
The Flash Development for Android Cookbook enables Flash developers to branch out into Android mobile applications through a set of essential, easily demonstrable recipes. It takes you through the entire development workflow: from setting up a local development environment, to developing and testing your application, to compiling for distribution to the ever-growing Android Market.
Read more information on Joseph's blog here.
Recently I had the opportunity and time to read a nice book related to native Android UI development: Android User Interface Development (Beginner's Guide) by Jason Morris - Packt Publishing.
Since the book itself claims to be a Beginner's guide it offers a very good hands on approach to learning Android UI development. A really useful and practical guide tο take уου step-bу-step through thе process οf developing user interfaces tο gеt уουr applications noticed.
Definitely a good read for both the beginner or for the Java developer who want to take its Android development skills one step further. You will not find informations like how to setup your IDE and development environment, it's all code, samples and tips... directly to the point:
Working through examples, code-snippets, and screenshots this book introduces the fundamentals of good user-interface design from a developer's point of view. This book will put you above the rest by showing you how to build striking user interfaces to grasp your app users' attention enough to make them shell out some bucks to buy your application.
Interested? Ream more details here!
Flash Development for Android Cookbook by Joseph Labrecque is now available for pre orders. I am among the technical reviewers for the book and I can say it's full of cool stuff inside there!
The Flash Development for Android Cookbook enables Flash developers to branch out into Android mobile applications through a set of essential, easily demonstrable recipes. It takes you through the entire development workflow: from setting up a local development environment, to developing and testing your application, to compiling for distribution to the ever-growing Android Market.
Good news for AIR mobile developers. With the release of AIR 2.6 mobile, Adobe improved iOS support to keep all platforms (including Android, PlayBook etc..) synchronized from now on! Take a look at Ryan Stewart showcasing new features of AIR for Mobile 2.6, and how they enable iOS developers to create rich applications for devices.
And be sure you dont miss this great ADC article from Christian Cantrell about iOS features in Adobe AIR 2.6.
We recently did some intensive testing on Android Face Detection capabilities investigating various solutions. Francesco Florio (Small Screen Design) wrote a very interesting article about our findings and the features and issues related to Android face detection, in order to create a Demo application that allows realtime human face tracking. You can read the full post here.
This is just the first part of the whole content, so, stay tuned!
We, at Small Screen Desing, have just published a new awesome Live Wallpaper on the Android Market: Flick Ur Pics.
Flick Ur Pics is as simple as cool. It lets you show a distinct background image from your gallery for each home screen page! Just flick with your finger between home screens to see the wallpaper changing using all your gallery images. With few taps you can select a favorites list of images from the whole device library to be used as wallpaper.
You can choose between fade or slide animation type for the transitions, and how to display your pictures in every home screen selecting the fill mode you prefer (tile mode, stretch mode, fill mode). You can also enable automatic rotation between backgrounds with different timings.
We, at Small Screen Desing, just published a new application on the Android Market: SmoothBeats.com Radio! SmoothBeats.com is a group of hip-hop and jazz radio stations streaming non-stop underground and mainstream hiphop beats 24 hours a day. This radio application was designed and developed by Small Screen Design and is fully compatible with all Android devices.
SmoothBeats.com Radio features a complete personalized UI, supports ShoutCast metadata and streaming in standby mode. Ah, one more thing: it's completely free! Enjoy!
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