Beyond “Hello World” The thrill of creating my first Android app was short lived. The ADK is vast and I have no outline or road map that comforts a spoon fed student. The real reason for taking a stab at smart phone app development was to get at those sensors and store the readings. This is going to require user input, screen output, sensor readings, and data storage. In Search Of The simple task of reading sensors proved to be…
Why Android? One reason, Innovation. The platform is open and is more adapt to the entry level developer. It has lost almost half of its market share in the past 2 years. Most of this loss has been claimed by the IOS devices that are currently surging. Again the question why!? Again, my answer is innovation. I don’t have to reinvent the wheel. The hard work has been done. It’s a spring board to the IOS platform. …
This quarter I’ll be covering 4 P’s, these are Phones, Presentation, Processing, and Pi. The posts this quarter will follow a different structure. The subjects below will be the main entries. As more work is done in each subject, entries will be made and included with the post. At the end of the quarter, they will be divided evenly in time from each other, this will help offer a more cohesive flow of the content. Phones really refers to smart…