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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<http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers>. If you
>>>> prefer to use
>>>> a newsgroup interface that mailing list is also available as a
>>>> newsgroup on at
>>>> gmane:<news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.android.devel>.
>
>>> 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

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Android apps development "sl@exabyte" <ecp_gen@my-rialto.com> - 2011-04-02 17:44 -0700
  Re: Android apps development Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2011-04-02 08:47 +0000
    Re: Android apps development Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-04-02 10:52 -0700
      Re: Android apps development Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-02 11:13 -0700
        Re: Android apps development Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-02 14:25 -0400
          Re: Android apps development Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-02 20:22 +0100
          Re: Android apps development Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-04-03 00:06 +0100
            Re: Android apps development Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-02 19:10 -0400
            Re: Android apps development Sherm Pendley <sherm.pendley@gmail.com> - 2011-04-02 21:27 -0400
        Re: Android apps development Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-03 10:48 +1200
          Re: Android apps development Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-02 16:01 -0700
            Re: Android apps development Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-03 12:56 +1200
              Re: Android apps development Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 17:31 +0100
  Re: Android apps development Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-02 21:57 +1300
    Re: Android apps development Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-04-02 10:07 -0300
      Re: Android apps development Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-03 10:44 +1200
        Re: Android apps development Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-04-03 10:36 -0300
    Re: Android apps development Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-02 06:24 -0700
      Re: Android apps development Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-02 14:44 +0100
      Re: Android apps development Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-02 10:53 -0700
        Re: Android apps development Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-02 11:10 -0700
      Re: Android apps development Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-03 10:33 +1200
    Re: Android apps development Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-02 14:43 +0100
      Re: Android apps development Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-02 11:04 -0400
  Re: Android apps development Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-02 11:01 -0400

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