Oh that we could all be a little more forgiving like Luis below.
About a year ago I posted about my hopes for android and it helping me write CrumbTracker. Been about a month ago that I got my MyTouch, a google phone running android. I have kind of caught the vision of app stores and the like. Played a fair amount of a pretty killer tower defense game, Robo Defense, which I even bought after getting hooked on the trial.
This past week, in my copious spare time, I dove in and worked on my android app CrumbTracker, that ties into my first real java appengine work at the web site. The vision is that the phone phones home to an appengine web site. If you have an android powered phone, give it a go. Last night I got it so the uploaded crumbs show up on a google maps map. Think I will write a series of blog posts about my experience getting it all up and running. Non-trivial, but hey I have only worked on it a few nights, so that’s pretty cool.
Here are some posts I am thinking about writing
- switching a domain from google apps to appengine
- SQLite on android
- the datastore on java-powered app engine
- the emulator
- doing an http post from java / android
- recognizing you’re in the android emulator from java
- sharing code (or not) across android / appengine projects
- ui in android
- android location management
- google maps initiation
- svn hiccups
Wow, that sounds VERY interesting! And I hope it is.
Enjoy!
Earl