Some of you might have read my article Android: Deploying multiple targets from one project. It describes how to create customized versions of the same software and therefore benefit from multiple apps with the same featureset. That deployment with an Ant script has proven to work well. For example our GMX Mail App is available [...]
Enough time has passed since I put Google Analytics into my Android game Laska. It has been collecting statistics for nearly a month now. Therefore, I want to share some data and show the key learnings I got out of it. The majority of my users are from China and Poland This was quite unexpected [...]
I have been missing one important part of improving my software for a long time. But after starting my new job at 1&1 in Munich, I was reminded of how important it is. always measure Whatever you are trying to build is probably been used by an audience of users. Especially in the mobile sector, [...]
The Android AppRater is a little tool in form of a source code snippet for getting better ratings in the Android Market. Its basic idea is to kindly ask users to rate your application, after they have been using it for a while. Which is a fair deal, because many users only give negative ratings [...]
The Free Lunch Is Over – that is the famous headline of an article about how the evolution of hardware alone will not solve our performance problems anymore. With the rise of multicore CPUs, software developers have to put effort into their code, to see further performance gains. Even on mobile phones, as the Tegra [...]
This is a list of things I would like to see for Android to improve the development of apps. Don’t get me wrong, Android is one of the best platforms out there, but this doesn’t mean it can not improve anymore. Hot Code Replacement It always takes a while to deploy your application on the [...]
This is the screencast and voice of my Android Fundamentals talk from december 2009. It was given on the 29th floor of our jentower for the towerbyte.
Update: This way of deploying multiple targets is considered outdated. There is a better way now. This posting is about how to create multiple versions of your Android application without cloning the whole project. For example if you want to create a full (paid) app, as well as a lite (free) version of it, you [...]
Some of you might have read my article Android: Deploying multiple targets from one project. It...
Enough time has passed since I put Google Analytics into my Android game Laska. It has been...