There’s a great Android infographic at cellphones.org. However there’s a discrepancy or oversight that might give people the wrong idea…
 
While I am a great fan of Android at the moment (even going to DroidCon London this week - report tomorrow), I feel the need to point out Symbian is missing. This means the data is […]

I am working on an image processing App on Android for a client and have taken a fresh look at the latest Native Development Kit (NDK). The NDK allows you to compile c or c++ and include it in a library called from an Android Java SDK Application. I previously published some tips and setting […]

There’s an interesting article at Bloombery Businessweek on how Tech Companies are seeing a Dearth of Mobile-Software Developers…
"More than half the respondents described the supply of quality mobile-software designers and engineers as ’scarce.’"
From my side, as a developer, I think there are currently enough developers. If you factor in offshoring there […]

Nokia’s developer-related press release yesterday was mainly about solely using Qt going forward to develop for Symbian and MeeGo. This applies both internally at Nokia and to 3rd party developers. In the future, the built-in phone applications will be written using Qt itself.
However, having read a post by Gorkem Ercan (who works at Nokia on […]

Today, Nokia announced that they will have just one platform (Qt + HTML) for developing on Symbian and MeeGo phones. With recent news that Samsung and Sony Ericsson have no plans for future Symbian handsets, Nokia have also re-evaluated their use of Symbian. 1800 jobs will go, 1200 of which […]

In speaking with some potential clients this week, there was a common theme of Android differentiation. That is, Android offers some interesting opportunities to create middleware and/or apps for handset OEMs (Sony Ericsson, Motorola etc) to help them differentiate their Android devices.
Up to now, most differention has been either in hardware […]

I have recently stopped posting on Twitter apart from occasionally posting links to my blog. Why? I did some research into how many people were clicking on the links I was posting. It turned out that, on average, only 20 to 30 people clicked on each link I posted. This is despite having over 600 […]