Issue #14

February 10th, 2012

ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

Link Bild Share With Intents (android-developers.blogspot.com)

Intents are a very cool mechanism to share data between applications. In this tutorial you'll lean how to share content via various sharing mechanisms.

 
Link Bild Android X86 Emulator VirtualBox (ib-edelmann.de)

Speed up your Android Development with an x86 emulator? The engineering Studio Edelmann has created a x86 VirtualBox for ICS. Go and grab it while it's hot ;-)

 

The principles of game monetization(altdevblogaday.com)
In this article you'll learn the principles of game monetization. It's not Android specific but a great resource that lists plenty of monetization strategies.

LIBRARIES AND CODE

Robolectric(pivotal.github.com)
Robolectric is a unit test framework that de-fangs the Android SDK jar so you can test-drive the development of your Android app.

Android ToggleButton(technotalkative.com)
This is a simple example for implementing ToggleButton in android application

Android Spinner(technotalkative.com)
Spinner is a widget similar to a drop-down list for selecting items. This tutorial will show you how to create a simple spinner widget that displays a list of days.

ANDROID DEV CAMP

Link Bild Android Dev Camp on Google+ (plus.google.com)

These cities have a G+ page and are preparing for the dev camp. Did we miss some?

 

HEADLINES

Link Bild Introducing Chrome for Android (chrome.blogspot.com)

This week Google introduced Chrome for Android. It's faster, it's better and it's synced with your desktop Chrome. With this move Google decoupled the Browser development cycle from the Android OS development cycle. A smart move, since the browser lags behind it's iOS competitor.

 

SCREENCAST

Link Bild Chrome remotely debugging on Android (watchlaterapp.com)

In this screencast you'll be shown how you can use Chrome for Android for remotely debugging your mobile websites.