Android Development

A platform for developing apps using JRuby on Android. 

New in ruboto version 0.6.0:

Features:

Issue #143 Move Ruboto Rake tasks to rakelib/ruboto.rake and let Rakefile be project specific
Issue […]

Android Market now lets developers mount multiple Android Package (APK) files optimized for different devices and releases, instead of selling the optimized versions separately, says Google. Meanwhile, security […]

Interesting overview over the Kevin Whinnery ’s blog:

Via hackers news (what i didn’t knew is that Titanium core is open source on github https://github.com/appcelerator)

A common question I get asked at […]

Oracle might only receive $150,000 in damages from Google
Judge William Alsup warned Oracle at the U.S. District Court of Northern California on Thursday morning that the “most” the plaintiff might end up with is […]

Hands On With Boot2Gecko, the Mobile OS Built Entirely on Web Standards
While the software is still in its early stages, it did look very promising.‪ ‬”The interest we’ve seen from operators so far is because […]

News via The H open

The ownCloud developers have announced the release of their Android client. The application runs on Android versions of 2.3.6 and higher and is currently optimised for phone form factors. […]

Today, two big Ruby news came directly from Japan:

The Open Source release of Matz’ mruby on GitHub.
The announce of MobiRuby, an upcoming solution to develop iOS and Android applications using […]

Article by Michał Kazimierz Kowalczyk where he describes how to work with OpenGL ES 2.0  on Necessitas

After reading lot of articles to understand how does it work, I created my own, light example. You can see […]

In this article I will present my solution for using Camera in Necessitas (Qt on Android) projects. In current version of Necessitas (0.3.4) Camera is not supported. I was looking for existing solutions but the […]

News from the H

The Android engineering team has released Revision 18 (r18) of its Software Development Kit for Android, used by developers to build and test mobile apps for Google’s mobile operating system. […]

Due to the current outage of android.git.kernel.org, and the fact that
Google Project Hosting now supports Git, the repo tool is now
available from its code.google.com repository:

<a href="http://code.google.com/p/git-repo/&quot; […]

I am attempting to port an Android Qt (Necessitas) app to x86.  I
figure all I have to do is to build QT from source using the x86
flag.  However, it was not nearly so simple.  After some research, I
found a […]

To access Wireless LAN you usually need to find a so-called hotspot where you can use the local Wireless LAN to access the Internet. Android smartphones however have a feature which enables them to become a […]

Hello folks,

I’d like to share with you current Android look&feel for Qt, because
the images say more than a thousands words, I upload a short movie
here: http://youtu.be/2X8R3lZc4EI .

How it works […]

As you might know Android x86 4.0 RC1 is already released So there is a new build for Virtualbox

New version is  here : http://www.buildroid.org/Download/android-x86-vm-20120307.iso.gz

Updated with last […]

For those wanting to see the slides/videos, Linux Foundation made them available at their site – go on and see for yourselves.

News via Lucas De March:

This was my first time at Android Builders Summit. […]