Issue #4

November 18th, 2011

HEADLINES

Ice Cream Sandwich source code hits AOSP (androidandme.com)

The source code of Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" is now available. The new Cyanogenmod will be awaited.

 
200 million Android devices (androidandme.com)

The rise of Android continues with 550 thousand activations daily.

 

ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

Speeding up Android development(brunocosta.com)
Bored of having coffee while your emulator boots up? This post explains how to speed up your emulator with Virtual Box.

Drag and Drop part 3(codingjunkie.net)
Installment of the Drag and Drop part 3.

Working with XML on Android(ibm.com)
A good sum up on how to work with XML (e.g. for a RSS parser) on Android. Different techniques and libraries will be discussed.

LIBRARIES AND CODE

Android Viewflow(github.com)
Here comes two alternatives on how to create a horizontal view navigation. This is a pretty decent and well explained library.

Horizontal View Swiping with ViewPager(android-developers.blogspot.com)
The next one was released as part of the compatibility package for devices with an older system (>1.6).

SCREENCASTS

Main Building Blocks (watchlaterapp.com)

A screencast about the main building blocks for an android app.

 

APP OF THE WEEK

Any.Do(any.do)
Cool app to manage your to do tasks. Absolutely great designed. Android apps should definetely more be like this one.