Android Bloggers

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Chris Saunders | Comments Off | Android News

Here are a few links to some bloggers who talk about ways to improve your Android software. Expect this list to get updated constantly as more information about other bloggers becomes aware.

Send an email to the mailing list with suggestions for others bloggers we should add to this!

  • Mind the Robot – Focus on Visual Elegance and optimizing your User Interfaces
  • Musings of a Barebones Coder – Covers various subjects on Android software development. Sometimes articles on .NET as well.
  • Android Developer Blog – Vast array of subjects all about Android. From new features such as JIT in Froyo to Handling multi-touch.

Ottawa Android June Meeting

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Chris Saunders | Comments Off | Meetings

This is a reminder to everyone that there is an Ottawa Android meeting next week (June 16th, 2010) at The Code Factory (246 Queen St, Ottawa) and it starts at 6:30pm.

The contents of this months meeting will be:

  • Rooting your Android Device – Spencer Elliott
  • Mercury: A Mercurial client for Android – Spencer Elliott
  • We will also have a short presentation from Louis Michon who will be presenting about a program he is looking into working on.

If you are interested in presenting something (parts of the API, app you have created, etc) for the next meeting or would simply like to hack on a project with some fresh eyes; feel free to let us know and we can surely accommodate you.

See you all next week!

Post May Meeting Update

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Marc Meszaros | Comments Off | Meetings

Hello everyone,

It was brought to my attention that we had forgotten to post up the code examples from the last meeting. As promised here are the links to the code.

  1. Android Threads by Marc Meszaros can be found on bitbucket

Update: Some interesting tips and alternatives to threads and messages for UI notifications updating was presented at Google I/O 2010. The tip is at 7:40 in this session video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqCj83leYRE

Ottawa Android May Meeting

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Chris Saunders | Comments Off | Meetings

Hello Everyone,

This month’s meeting will happen on the 19th of May starting at 6:30pm at The Code Factory (246 Queen, St).

The topics of discussion this month will be:

  • Implementation of status/download bars via threading and handlers – Marc Meszaros
  • Introduction to Localisation for Android – Chris Saunders

Also there will be a guest from the Google Technology User Group coming out to our meeting this week to talk about an Android Hackathon that may be coming up within the next few months. Come out with your ideas of what you would be interested in learning about so we can come up with some fun challenges and useful presentations!

If you have anything you would like to add to the list of presentations please send a line to the mailing list with your proposal and we will gladly make time for you.

Please remember to bring in $5.00 for the ‘cookie jar’ so we can keep having our meetings at The Code Factory.

Update

Possible presentations: * Presentation on a Database framework to reduce the amount of boilerplate code that is required.

Ottawa Android April Meeting

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Chris Saunders | Comments Off | Meetings

Hey Ottawa Android devs!

Our next meeting is going to be on the 21st of April from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. It will be at the same location as last time (The Code Factory, 246 Queen St.)

There are no planned presentations for this meeting, but feel free to come out if you have something you would like to demo or just to hack on a project you may be working on.

If you would like to do a demo feel free to send a message to the mailing list and let us know what you will be presenting.

Please remember to bring a 5 dollar donation for The Code Factory “cookie jar”