Posted on 15 July, 2010

Chapter 8 (Getting Fancy with Lists) of Beginning Android 2 from Apress is quite complicated compared to the easy stuff up to Chapter 7. I’m not sure I understand it fully yet.

Chapter 8 talks about the ListView in an in-depth manner. The ListView is the most frequently used Android widget according to the book. The last example was too complex to be understood by just reading and looking at the code. A diagram to illustrate the relationship between the various java classes would have made things clearer.

I hope the rest of the book will not be as ...

Posted on 09 July, 2010

What’s the best way to start learning Android Programming? I usually learn a new programming language or framework by playing around with sample code. But for Android programming, after fiddling around with the sample apps from the Android SDK and apps-for-android, I realize I needed more info on how things work with the Android programming framework.

To get me started, I got a copy of Beginning Android 2 from Apress. So far, I find it a good starter book to learn the Android programming framework.

Beginning Android 2 starts out 3 chapters on basic Android development concepts and then ...

Posted on 02 July, 2010

This latest update includes the following items:

• using new buzzapp theme for both admin and public website
• using textile for markup of post body
• added post preview
• added syntax highlighting for programming language code in post body
• css and js files are compressed using 'python manage.py compile_media’

The buzzapp theme is the same theme used in a mashup site I’m working on at AndroidZap. It’s a simple and clean theme based on YUI grids.

Textile Markup – I’ve decided to use textile library to markup the post body instead of using the YUI Rich Text Editor to ...

Posted on 03 February, 2010

I’ve just uploaded my AdMob pluggable application for Kay Framework to BitBucket – kay_admob.

If you’re creating a mobile web site using Kay Framework and wants to use AdMob ads and analytics, kay_admob should get you started straight away.

I’m using kay_admob on my mobile booklet site at http://www.mobilebooklet.com/mobile/. See the “Play MOBile Wars on ur 6500 Slide“ AdMob link after the Header in the image below.

kay_admob is a port of django_admob by John Boxall.

Posted on 02 February, 2010

Last weekend I completed the mobile site for MobileBooklet.com. It’s basically a barebone mobile phone friendly version of MobileBooklet.com. It comes integrated to Facebook Connect for Mobile Web for login.

With the mobile website up and running, I wanted to get Google to crawl my mobile site. A quick Google search got me info on how to add a Mobile Sitemap to Google.

1. About Mobile Sitemaps.
Some general information about Mobile Sitemaps.

2. Creating Mobile Sitemaps.
A mobile sitemap is slightly different from a normal sitemap. There’s an additional namespace requirement and a specific tag ...