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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Developing applications for Android
Not quite yet in my case, but I’ve read “Hello, Android” (recommended) and gone through most of the examples provided with the book, as well as built and tweaked them to see how stuff work.
I’m using the Eclipse + ADT combo. I tried using NetBeans + nbandroid, but never got that to work with Android 1.5. I might try that later, but it really doesn’t matter what IDE is used.
My first project will be to port Abiro Jitter to Android. It’s enough to provide some challenge. Not that the world is void of Twitter clients for Android, but considering such a client can tweet about so much more than just what the user might want to say, it’s still worth the effort, and an interesting platform for other application experiments. It’s also a relatively simple application overall.
The UI is currently my main concern, as the paradigm is quite different from that in MIDP. All the Twitter protocol stuff I’ve obviously already implemented (from scratch; there were no free libs at the time), and it’s all Java (yet with some other classes than ME and SE) and communication is via HTTP, so hopefully not much else should cause problems.
