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Why Android is my platform of choice

I never developed for mobile platform. I have tried a bit of J2ME but never got hang of it. When iPhone got in, I was so exited to develop for it. But then it had a lot of entry barriers. I never got a start there. Then came Android, but then I was...

Upgrading 0

Upgrading

Blogs these days are always under construction. I am upgrading my blog theme based on wordpress 3.0 and default theme twentyten. So if you find anything broken, let me know.

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Three requests to Google India regarding Android

I am back from my first ever Bangalore Android meet-up. I should say I was impressed with the turn up on Friday evening. Here are the questions that I asked as a developer and user. 1. Support for Indic fonts and IME I use Nexus one which doesn’t have Indic support (2.1 update...

Going down the hill 3

Going down the hill

Going down the hill is easy and fun. But how ever high speeds on the bike is dangerous if you are not careful. This time when I was coming down from Nandi, I was less conservative. My average speed was 25.93. Its nothing great but I reached 50kmph at a point and it...

Android applications for developers 2

Android applications for developers

When I am traveling, I usually carry my netbook to check the statuses of my servers, check log files, upload files and very rarely to edit too. Ever since I got my Nexus one, I have been trying to do as many things as possible on my android phone Nexus one. There are...

Building community of developers 3

Building community of developers

What makes Facebook or twitter or Flickr successful? Is it the community of users? is it the usefulness of the product? is it the uniqueness? I think it’s all above and set of passionate developers who used the APIs and created extensions with above mentioned characteristics. Yes. According to me developers who used...