Well, I stopped and started thinking what's so cool about mobile development and mobile apps, and I would like to share my thoughts. Before modern smartphones, most software was written to be consumed in desktop environment, where the user was sitting in front of his computer interacting with it. Smartphones make now easy doing something new: interacting with the environment the user belongs to. …

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I released DroidAlone on the market in the early summer. You can find a description at the following url DroidAlone - Missed call for Android It is a paid app, and it costs something like 0.99 euros. It has been downloaded something like 150 times since then. I also had some issues in choosing its name: at first it was homealone, but I was afraid to Mr Culkin knokin' to my door for royalties, …

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This won't be a strictly technical post, but something related to some of my impressions during android development. I read a lot of stuff about android, and how at first it looks so easy to deploy an android application. What I realized in the last year is that releasing something that "almost" work is not enough. Your app will be buried under bad reviews and, since android does not make any …

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It may sound weird, but I discovered java development while trying to learn android development itself. Along with Java, eclipse and all this nice stuff, I discovered junit too. One of the problems I encountered while developing my second app, droidalone, was to test intent services. Intent services are a powerful way to handle background task. They basically are services that run in their own …

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EDIT 11/11/2012: as described in this new blog post, I modified the script to generate a content provider as well This is my first post about something related to android. Just to break the ice, I would like to introduce a simple helper script I developed this summer. Android ships with a very nice local storage, which is sqllite. It's said almost everywhere that, in order to make your life …

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Well, maintaining a blog looks harder than I thought, but this is another attempt to keep it alive. I'll say something more about me, just to break the ice: I live in Italy, I am a software engineer, and my current employer is a company whose main products are related to finance. I'm currently working to maintain and to evolve the brokerage platform of one major italian bank. After developing it's …

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A lot of things have changed since my last post, but some are still the same. One of them is my curiosity and my passion for technologies. Why I am back here? Because I am trying to understand and develop some applications with Android framework, and I think it would be useful for me to have a place where collect the new things I learn. At the same time I hope these things will be useful for …

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I often try to do something with various tech stuff. I thought that this could be a nice place to share my experiences with others, and also a good place to write everything I will need in the future. At the moment I am trying to work on a little project using python interpreter for symbian applications.....

Since my mobile device is a s60v3 one (Nokia E61), I found particulary difficult to develop any simple python script on the phone. The hardest thing to do was the write - test cycle. On linux you can't simply send the file to the phone with obex, since it will be stored in your incoming messages. From the excellentJürgen Scheible's tutorial website I discovered the existance of the nice putools …

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