Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Android apps development Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:22:39 +0100 Organization: Dirk Bruere at Neopax Lines: 42 Message-ID: <8vpbblFi15U1@mid.individual.net> References: Reply-To: dirk.bruere@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net xrQR/atWj15XQARlwAPxKQ+fQwv1AOQ2a7NPGShDh3aHQHVqOq Cancel-Lock: sha1:MyKe53uO7ZfdXJjc/pXP8WU7I5Y= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:2770 On 02/04/2011 19:25, Lew wrote: > Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> Steve Sobol wrote: > >>> Fredrik Jonson says... > >>>> sl@exabyte wrote: >>>>> For Android development questions, OK to ask here? > >>>> You're more likely to get appropriate help if you ask on the >>>> official mailing >>>> list. If you >>>> prefer to use >>>> a newsgroup interface that mailing list is also available as a >>>> newsgroup on at >>>> gmane:. > >>> I second that, although I do some Android development and would not mind >>> discussing things and (hopefully) answering some questions here, too. > >> I've found the Android discussions here interesting. My doctoral >> dissertation research was in ubiquitous computing, and I continue to pay >> attention to the subject. One of the limitations has been the way phone >> companies lock things up, making it difficult to add research >> applications. Android may make things a bit more open, which would be >> good. > > From a pragmatic standpoint, Android is a lucrative gold-rush land for > Java developers, but one must strive mightily to succeed over the herd > of other prospectors staking Android claims in dreams of easy riches. > The putative crowd of cljp denizens comprises an already committed, > skilled subgroup of Java programmers who would thus naturally have both > an interest and an edge in that competition. > If you're talking mass market apps, that's true. However, there's plenty of niches for custom apps for control applications for non mass market hardware eg instrumentation etc. -- Dirk http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - My new book - Magick and Technology