Android

Android: 'You're a feisty little one...'

September 14, 2010Andrew Lenards

@alenards

• Android Owner: 6 months• Android Dev: 3 months

(“Padawan Learner”)

What about you?

Who has…

Mobile Dev experience?

iPhone Dev experience?

App in the App Store?

Android Dev experience?

App in the Market?

Why do you care?

14.9% of smartphones (2010)15.9% for iPhone

Source: zdnet

Final Q2 of 2010SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEMS

1 - Symbian (Nokia) 27.0 million for 44%2 - Android (Google) 11.4 million for 18%3 - Blackberry (RIM) 11.2 million for 18%4 - iOS/iPhone (Apple) 8.4 million for 14%5 - Windows Mobile (Microsoft) 1.6 million for 3%Rest of Operating systems 2.1 millionTOTAL smartphone OS devices in Q2 61.7 million

Source: TomiAhonen Consulting

Free Satnav beats TomTom

Source: pcpro.co.uk

Best part…

!AT&T

That’s “The Good”…

The Bad?

Fragmentation

Telecom Shenanigans

motoblur == restraining bolt

Dell’s Aero, file under #failDell release first phone with Android 1.5 (18 month old version)

SCOracle Lawsuit…

Tale of the Tape

iPhone AndroidLanguage Objective-C Java

IDE XCode Eclipse

UI Interface Builder Eclipse plug-in

Profiler/Debugger XCode Eclipse

Application Sales App Store ($99) Market ($25)

Operating System Mac OS X Linux/OSX/Windows

Development Overview

Activity

Service

Content Provider

Intent Receiver

Intents

One last more…

Permissions

Application

Inspiration

Nigel Davies

Now we code the rock

One more idea…

Careful What You LogCautionary Tale:

Questions?

Slides -> slideshare.net/lenardsCode -> github.com/lenardsEmail -> [email protected]

Interested in more?

TDAC Android sessions…

R.I.P Palm Centro

& AT&T

References

• http://zd.net/ajXjOL• http://bit.ly/blFU1W• http://bit.ly/bj2Acv• http://bit.ly/9fXidf• http://bit.ly/99E1q0

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