Androids, Androids everywhere

So, app number one has been yelled at in the market for some week and app number two is ready to be delivered. I'm almost a REAL android hacker now, who could have believed ?

To be honest, app number one was a simple try to get to know the procedure. I mean, nobody really needed an app that wrote and told them random insults. But it was fun to play with, and I learned a lot from it. My intention is to write a tutorial about it, the hard parts (expect for the speech, that was actually a little tricky with the localization) were the ads. Well, I settled for admob and adwhirl, but to actually generate some money, you'll need more networks for sure.

Anyway, I plan to release a BeerSweeper game, hopefully I'll manage to get adsense network in that but who knows...

Getting started with an amazing Android app

Well, there's two things in the universe that a pragmatic programmer needs to deal with today to be future-proof, the cloud and mobile apps. I've already played with googles appengine and Microsofts Azure so it's time to play with mobile apps. (To be honest, I've cheated with it before but never built anything worth mentioning).

Since I'm the owner of a HTC Desire I will build a small android app, create a market account, get some ads in it (perhaps it might be enough revenue to get a saturday pizza?) and publish it for the world to admire.

To get going, there are some things needed. The gurus recommends eclipse for development, so I need that one. I need to spice it up with the android plugins, that means adding https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ as an update site and get everything offered. I also need the android-sdk and the tools that come with it.

That would do to get started, but there a lot of other tools. I highly recommend DroidDraw for designing the GUI, the others I haven't used.. yet.