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grammaton
16y ago
Which is also available for Android :)
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16y ago
I think you officially win the thread....
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16y ago
Until last week's unfortunate beer spilling incident, I was using a macbook, along with a long standing server instance running Gentoo on RackSpace, with further instances spun up and then disposed of as needed. I have to say I find it kind
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16y ago
Programming isn't for the author because they're obviously a business person first and foremost. Suits and programmers are two different worlds, right down to temperament and interests. You can tell just by looking at the language in the
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16y ago
Well who died and made you all-knowing? Let me guess. You're an MBA. You've probably spent lots of time polishing your presenting skills and becoming a good salesman, and polish and presentation are important to you. Here's the thing - al
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In point of fact, Google has something almost identical in the form of the Compatibility Definition Document, which gives fairly strict and detailed specifications for what an Android device is. There's also a set of tens of thousands of a
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16y ago
Another point the author misses is that most users - and for that matter developers - aren't chasing the latest features in Android. Look at Froyo for instance - it's awesome, but I can guarantee you that right now, probably less than 1% o
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By using the well designed and thought out frameworks that Google provides exactly for this particular reason. Honestly this whole "fragmentation" thing is a red herring. You create your app, you create different sets of resources (images
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This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. As a mobile developer (on - surprise! - Android) I can say for sure that unless you're writing native code through JNI, Google has taken great pains to make sure that an Android phone is an An