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What’s the story with Android Layouts?

I suppose the first question we ask is what were Google thinking in coming up with their own mechanism for Layout, Style and Themes. Was CSS not good enough? I suppose like everything its a different “platform” and this requires a different set of tools. But why are you making learn a complete new language!! What I’m not seeing a lot of...

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Welcome!

Hi there folks, This is a blog that will address all things Mobile, in particular my experience with iPhone, Android and HTML5 Development. Years ago we had the concept of browser wars – now we are looking at Mobile OS wars. While Apple seem to be winning out at the moment, it would be great to see a more open technology evolve...

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Tablet devices are mainstream

Its quite plausible, that we have at last found a device that is both mobile and usable for all things entertaining. Laptop devices have replaced the desktop computer, and now are we are we see such a shift to Tablet computing? While desktop computers still have their place, is it that tablets are also replacing the desktop in the same way. Where...

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Android Development on Android

On my mission, to figure out if I could practically code anywhere… using my Tablet (Transformer Prime). I found the following tools, that seem to work well..on initial review. Deeper dives into these tools will show more. AIDE – Android Java IDE AGIT – Git Client The AIDE App actually allows you to build apps within Android itself, pretty amazing stuff. Not...

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