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[video] – Our Choice – The Next Generation of Digital Books

2 May

Mike Matas (@mike_matas) and his team from Push Pop Press developed a great iPad and iPhone application called “Our Choice“. They claim it to be the next generation of digital books. In the following you see the TED Talk given by Mike Matas demonstrating “Our Choice”. What I find really interesting there are the interactive [...]

Introducing Robotium – A Testing Framework for Android

19 Apr

Robotium is an open source testing framework for Android applications. It makes it easy to write complex black-box test cases. Test driven development is a methology where tests are written before the actual application. 1. Write a testcase 2. Watch it failing 3. Write the actual source code in you application which enables the test [...]

Google launched In-app Billing on Android Market

30 Mar

Google yesterday launched In-app Billing on the Android Market. This feature enables developers to publish apps that use in-app Billing and users can make purchages from within the Android apps. Google writes: Android Market In-app Billing is an Android Market service that lets you sell digital content in your applications. You can use the service [...]

HowTo set up the Android SDK on Ubuntu for HTC Phones

12 Mar

In this post I will explain how I set up the Android SDK on Ubuntu for my HTC Desire. I first followed the steps for Ubuntu as described in Setting up a Device for Development: With an Android-powered device, you can develop and debug your Android applications just as you would on the emulator. Before you [...]

Minecraft Documentary Explores Indie Game’s Impact

7 Mar

The impact of indie games given Minecraft as an example is the topic of the following 20 minutes documentary. Wired.com states: Of all the videogame industry’s tremendous success stories, Minecraft might very well be the most remarkable. [wired.com] Have fun watching the interesting video: (via wired.com) Related articles Minecraft Documentary Explores Indie Game’s Impact (wired.com) [...]