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YouTubeI spent part of last night setting up my HTC Desire as a development device on my Ubuntu laptop. This was a somewhat frustrating process, because a lot of the information I came across seem to be outdated and didn’t work for me. Even the official documentation refers to a version of Ubuntu which is more than two years old. I did eventually piece together the correct process for Ubuntu 10.04, so I’m documenting that process here in the hope that it will help out other developers in the future. This guide assumes that you’ve already installed and configured the Android SDK. (more…)
Archive for September, 2010
Android Development Device Setup in Ubuntu 10.04
Sunday, September 12th, 2010Android First Impressions
Monday, September 6th, 2010Like a number of disgruntled users and developers, I recently decided to trade my iPhone in for an Android device. My distaste for Apple’s app store policies, design philosophy and corporate culture had been pushing me in that direction for some time. The final straw, though, was iOS 4, which rendered my iPhone 3G almost unusably slow while failing to grant any of the most noteworthy new features. The inordinate difficulty of downgrading iOS exacerbates the problem for users who are still stuck with the iPhone 3G. To be fair to Apple, Wednesday will see iOS 4.1 released, and they’ve claimed that it will fix the iPhone 3G performance issues. For me, though, 4.1 is too little, too late. (more…)