Skyfire is a unique mobile "browser" because instead of rendering on the client, it uses server-side processing also for Flash and Silverlight. In other words, it works like a remote desktop connection to a server and is thus able to display almost everything (except for XM radio streaming), including sophisticated Flash web applications!

Here we are presenting 2-part video review of Skyfire for Windows Mobile (Flash player required in your browser):

Source: pocketpcthoughts

Avkon Panics

T-Mobile UK says reports that they will be making the G1 available to subscribers on October 30th. Unlike Apple’s delayed European iPhone release, T-Mobile is making the wise decision to get the phone out across the world as quickly as possible. Initially, the G1 wasn’t expected to hit Europe until well into November.

The two tariffs (price plans) available both offer the G1 for free and are significantly cheaper than the plans bundled with Apple’s iPhone. Both are priced at 40 and include a generous variety of talk time/text messaging combinations.

Most G1 reviewers will probably agree that, in a nutshell, the software is nice but the hardware underwhelms.

The G1, the first phone to run Google's Android software, goes on sale Oct. 22 from T-Mobile. If users can get past the hardware shortcomings, the software on the G1 and its openness might just convince some people to choose it over the iPhone.

It's hard to critique the G1 without comparing it to the iPhone, the benchmark against which any new touch-screen phone gets compared. The G1 hardware is just ho-hum, where the iPhone is really stellar. Viewing the same video on both phones starkly shows the difference in screen quality. The iPhone's is sharp, smooth and bigger. The G1's is blurry, a bit pixelated and smaller.

Tipster: Introduction
 

A tip calculator is quite a simple application. When you go with friends to a restaurant and wish to divide the check and tip, you simply add the tip percentage to the total and divide by the number of diners. I have seen this application on my simple cell phone too. So I thought of implementing it in Android as a means to learn how it all works.

When I looked at the various tutorials, each one demonstrated a specific set of features. I tried different tutorials and then set about to write an application which would be as close to a real world application. Obviously this meant using different features of the API. The end result was a good enough application which used lots of features all in one application.

I know that many developers want a short tutorial with just the code pieces and brief explanations. Somehow, I cannot just post code and few comments. I always end up writing such tutorials as if I am speaking out to a live person.

So here it is, whatever I learnt and applied, for your perusal.

Source: http://androidboards.com/2008/10/microsoft-considers-silverlight-on-android/

Introduction

In the world of application development many may found that earlier prototyping can help a lot. "Show your ideas at the beginning and be sure that you will get proper feedback from the customer, collect it and build great software" this is a simple rule that helps a lot in my day-to-day activities. I know several kinds of the prototypes but the most difficult is always a GUI.

What the customer expects? How to place various elements on screen? What is required and what is optional? How to organize dialogs? How to show customer the GUI without implementing it? We try to solve today all that questions in our public effort - Android GUI Prototyping Stencil for Visio.

 

 

Download the documentation for Android 1.0 SDK in PDF form, created from the HTML documentation.

 

Getting Started

Developing Applications

Developer Toolbox

FAQs

Bootcamp

(Thanks to frickingnutz.com)

I confirmed the following procedure only on my linux host (FC8). Sorry for Windows and Mac users.

1. Get toolchains from CodeSourcery (Choose ARM GNU/Linux and IA32 GNU/Linux).

2. Get kernl source code from here.

3. Deploy toolcains and kernel source and enter in the kernel source tree.