Android Apps

[nickclarson]

What does everyone thing of the google android platform? I was excited to learn that they are based off of Java utilizing xml for the layout, pretty easy compared to the iphone IMO. So I have been spending the last couple days familiarizing myself with the basics, because I think I'm going to dive head first and learn how to make them. Anybody else having success with these suckers? I know there's a big market for them out there somewhere!

 

[uplinked]

only written a few tiny apps, but IMO, save yourself a pain in the balls, and drink the Titanium koolaid.

basically, they wrote javascript wrappers for most phone level api functions for both android and iphone; you code your app in JavaScript, get full access to shit like geo.findLocation(), and it compiles [natively!] to iphone and android.

 

[nickclarson]

HMM, so write in javascript and it compiles to objective-c or java for iphone and android respectively? Now that's something I am going to look in to. Although I would rather program in java vs. javascript, but the flexibility of being able to make things for both platforms is a huge plus. As well as osx linux and windows I just realized. very nice, thanks a lot for the suggestion

 

[barman]

Robo Tower Defense app will be the death of me.

 

[dremos]

the market for selling android app is very small , but i love the android emulator for eclipse