If you’re like me, dutifully following updates from the Android Developers group and the Google Mobile Blog, you probably got excited last week that Google had quietly announced an analytics API giving Android and iPhone applications Google Analytics-esque metrics. And like you, I also immediately checked out the SDK documentation only to find the links [...]
First Impressions of Google Analytics for Mobile Apps
by Chris Newby, November 16, 2009Certificate Problems Submitting APK to ADC2
by Chris Newby, August 31, 2009Wheel of Yum has been on the Android market for a few weeks now and keeps getting lot’s of positive feedback. So a few days ago we decided to submit it to this year’s Android Developer Challenge. We agreed on some new features, an improved UI design, and got coding. Being that the ADC submission deadline is tomorrow midnight PT we knew we were kind of up against a wall getting a new release ready, but got everything built and tested by early Sunday evening anyway … and thats when we tried to submit our app to the ADC market…
PNG Alpha Channels Don’t Render So Well On Top of SurfaceViews
by Chris Newby, August 29, 2009Working on the new UI for our upcoming 1.1 release of Wheel of Yum I ran into a subtle, yet nasty bug in how android renders the alpha channel data of a PNG file laid out above a SurfaceView.
View.startAnimation Delays Execution for Empty Container Views
by Chris Newby, August 21, 2009Unable to sleep, I got hacking at our upcoming release of Wheel of Yum this morning only to get totally stuck on a bug in how Android animates empty container views.