Life by bits & numbers
Google was and is pushing for better web both on desktop and now on mobile too.
Here’s a nice website that will help your company to transfer to mobile space: http://www.howtogomo.com/
They even have a gomometer which will analyze your site and give an advice on how to improve it so it is more “mobile friendly”
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So you bought the Kindle Fire and you want to start running and debugging your apps on it but when you connected it, you realized that it is not recognized automatically like other Android devices on OS X.
No worries, it takes 2 minutes to set it up.
You need to:
Open up the terminal and edit the “adb_usb.ini” (you can use nano instead of vim): vim ~/.android/adb_usb.ini
add the following 2 lines to the file each on a separate line:
now you need to restart the ADB server and you should be all set.
The whole sequence of commands looks like this:
Now you should also see the device while running your app from Eclipse
For the official directions in case you need them and for directions for other OS besides OS X, you can check out this PDF
Important tip:
The networking will not work until you “disconnect” the device from USB – just click on “Disconnect” don’t worry it will only cancel the “file transfer mode”. You will still be able to deploy and now actually run apps that require networking.
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Very nice graphics for the Android DevCamp
Going to be at the Cambridge office this w-end hacking away. If you are in the Greater Boston area and want to attent you can register here: http://devcampbostongtug.eventbrite.com/
For all the locations around the world you can go here.
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An interesting marketing stunt performed by Microsoft’s marketing at CES – betting people $100 that they won’t be as fast on their phone compared to Windows Phone to perform some task like posting information to social networks, checking weather, finding a place to eat etc…
To top that, everyone who got smoked got a brand new Windows Phone. Microsoft you are moving in the right direction!
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An interesting infographic from the mobile advertising provider and mediation company – InnerActive was produced encompassing the timeline between the last year’s MWC in Barcelona and this year’s MWC.
A compilation of mobile UI resources:
Enjoy! 