Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Android apps development Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:25:48 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net dYqWUyQB3Q3RsKYVQTQN6LqVhIX/2iS34dQv5M9v4lK4nStFFr88Wq04ruFyC9iL8EvQGoOX+gzhl9qpkgdUQA== NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 18:25:45 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="/ku3syfD1FhgTHVO0TwERDdn6qOwywK9vLO9VpRzE6de/v3j6dgKKrshd7eGg6fBSWFuqj1ozgdmZeDVPCTcpQzgSSb8itpxY3hF5eiK/vKoRDhuMgmVgF83zzpqMael"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:RO6RWjNUM/DwoviVFq88z7wx1ck= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:2768 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. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg