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Mavericks Surf, the app that Digital Dandelion made for Sony Ericsson using PhoneGap is featured in the February issue of Popular Science magazine. Make sure you check it. Creating Mobile Apps With a Point and a Click.
You can read about the process we used in my earlier post Digital Dandelion on Androidandme.com
Tags: Android, Digital Dandelion, Google Android, Mobile Development, Sony Ericsson, WebSDk
Have you seen Google Goggles yet? Below is a demonstration of Goggles on Sony Ericcson’s new phone, the Xperia X10. It’s a pretty amazing app running on a great phone.
Thanks to the folks at SE-First.com for making the video.
Tags: Android, Digital Dandelion, Google, Google Android, Mobile Development, Sony Ericsson, Video, WebSDk
Tags: Android, Christmas, Digital Dandelion, iPhone, Mobile Development, Video
Last month Sony Ericsson North America asked Digital Dandelion to build a mobile app for their new Android phone, the Xperia X10, based on the Mavericks Surf website. The trick? We had seven business days to build, test and deliver the app. And it was only going to be debuted in front a crowd of Technocrats at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC. Read how my Digital Dandelion partners Jeremiah Cohick and Arthur Nicholls pulled it off by using PhoneGap and Sony Ericsson’s new WebSDK, in a new guest blog post by Jeremiah on Androidandme.
Tags: Android, Google, iPhone, Mobile Development, PhoneGap, Sony Ericsson, WebSDk
Two weeks ago Sony Ericsson asked Digital Dandelion to develop a mobile app from web based content using their new WebSDK and PhoneGap, an open source development tool. The result was the Mavericks app for Android phones that we showed last week in New York at the Web 2.0 Expo. In the video below, Digital Dandelion’s Jeremiah Cohick discusses the process of turning a webpage into a mobile app.
To learn more and find resources visit the Digital Dandelion Blog.
Tags: #W2E, Android, Google, Google Android, iPhone, Mobile Development, Sony Ericsson, Video, Web 2.0 Expo, WebSDk
Bill Maggs, Head of Developer and Partner Engagement at Sony Ericsson, took some time at last week’s Web 2.0 Expo in New York, to show the Android app Digital Dandelion developed for the Mavericks Surf Contest. The Mavericks app was built, in just seven days, using Sony Ericsson’s new WebSDK and an amazing new open source development tool PhoneGap.
PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript. If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, you should check out PhoneGap.
Tags: Android, Google Android, Mobile Development, Sony Ericsson, WebSDk
Yesterday I got into a bit a of a debate with @schwiz about Nancy Gohring’s article “One Year On, Android’s Not Quite There Yet,” that was published in MacWorld.com this week. While Schwiz argued that the article was a bit biased, I disagreed. I think Ms Gohring got it right and could have gone further. It has to be said that any criticism of Android that appears in MacWorld is suspect, but just because it’s published there doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
I support open platforms. I think what the Open Handset Alliance is doing is important. I think the Android OS is great and I love the HTC G1. All of that being said, I do think that the platform has a long way to go and that time may be running out. I will tell you why I think this, but a little background first.
I’m an early adopter. I’ve invested in technology, large and small platforms, big and small devices, with some success and some failures over the years. In the 1990s I started a successful special effect and editing company in Boston. Early on, I bet on the Avid non-linear editor and Discreet Logic’s special effects/graphics system, Flame, but before I invested in those products, I tested Data Translation ’s Media 100 and SGI’s Matador. Why do I mention these products? Avid and Media 100 were non-linear editing software systems operating on Apple computers. The Flame and Matador were graphic/special effects software packages operating on SGI (Unix) computers. So these were basically applications running on an off the shelf computer. Of course there were some modifications made to the hardware, to optimize the operation of the software, but essentially, the concept is not dissimilar to the Android model. (Except that I spent a lot more money on the hardware and software in each case.) Read the rest of this entry »
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Five Reasons Why the Android, May Not Beat the iPhone
October 8, 2009 in Android, Commentary, Google by admin | 2 comments
It seems like whenever I write a lengthy blogpost, the posts are motivated by a ‘slap myself in the forehead’ moment after reading a silly or stupid post written by someone else. I promise that in the future I will try to be positive and proactive and not negative and reactive. Okay, I won’t promise, but I will work on it. But until then….
Yesterday I read a silly and overly optimistic post on ZDnet’s, The ToyBox, written by Andrew Nusca, titled “Five Reasons Google Android smartphones will beat iPhone, Blackberry, WinMo.” All I can ask is, “Is he using the same Android phone as me?” As I said in a previous post, “My Take On Android’s First Year,” I like the Android, but it has a long way to go. Google has to get behind it and really market it, if it wants to catch up with the iPhone. In a response to Mr Nusca’s post, here are my Five Reasons Why the Android, May Not Beat the iPhone.
1. The Android Market stinks. (See My Take on Android First Year)
2. Android is improving slowly and when it does, no one knows it’s coming. Last week’s release of Donut Android 1.6 caught many people off guard. Plus there are rumors that the judging of ADC2 had to be wrapped early, because many of the apps entered into the challenge were broken by the new release. It’s a good thing this was just an app contest and not a challenge to put man on Mars.
3. The Android system may be an open OS, but as far as I can tell only boys interested in building Tower Defense games as apps are doing any serious work for the platform. I spent a good part of the last week using the ADC2 judging app on the phone and it was as exciting as watching paint dry. I taught Dreamweaver classes at Emerson College and got better looking stuff in the first week of class from Freshman.
4. Yeah, the Android will run on phones from several manufacturers. So we will have three or four companies, all trying to beat each other in the marketplace using different methods to out sell each other. Sounds like WinMo to me. That really worked.
5. The Android combines the best of what’s out there? All I can say is, Wiki the Tucker, Newton, DeLorean, 3DO, etc. just cuz it’s gooder don’t mean it’s a winner.
In summary, I have to say, once again, I love the Android phone, but Google has to get behind the system and market the hell out of this great phone concept.
Tags: Android, App Store, Emerson College, Google, iPhone, OSX, ZDNet