[Sussex] AndroidSPIN- Android Does Europe – Shipments Increased 1580��0in 2010

[Steven Dobson]

Hi (again) Jacqui

On 10/03/11 18:10, Jacqui Caren-home wrote:
> On 10/03/2011 13:51, Steve Dobson wrote:
>> Google is taking over the mobile market:
>> http://androidspin.com/2011/03/09/android-does-europe-shipments-increased-1580-in-2010/
>>
> 
> Its also a very warm topic in some of the LUG groups.
> There are quite a few people in both hampshire and Surrey lugs
> interested in android.

That doesn't surprise me one bit.

> My own interest is both personal and professional. I forsee the need for
> custom apps
> (in my case bound to web services backends) and android is a perfect and
> cheap way to
> demo a "mobilite" version of an normally web based app to a client
> before they decide
> to spend serious money on a project.

There is some real power there.  The cloud is going to be a ever
increasing force in out IT lives.  We have seen the power the community
as brought to software.  FLOSS is going places, of that there can be
little doubt these days.  With networked portable devices remote data
gathering is going to get bigger and bigger.

I didn't tweet before I got my 'droid phone.  I still don't see he point
of tweeting much as I sit at my computer.  But tweeting about things
when I'm out and about - that does make a lot of sense to me.

> Personally I just love my current droid phone a ZTE Racer and am itching
> for a OSF (Blade) so I can start using the Racer for dev/test.

I am wondering why you are not developing/testing application now?  I
installed adbWireless on my phone which allows me to connect my phone to
my development environment with one command:

    $ adb connect <phone-ip-address-or-name>

As I also build from the command line (I'm not an IDE fan and therefore
don't use Eclipse - just emacs & ant) installation couldn't be easier:

  $ ant install

Google really have done a very good job of making the development easy.

Steve
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Steve "Dobbo" Dobson