Archive for the ‘Android’ Category

April 22nd, 2010, by alex

Android running on iPhone

This is impressive, to say the least. A Canadian hacker has managed to get Android running on the iPhone. The important stuff seems to work - wifi, the browser, playing music, SMS, making calls… oh, and it dual-boots. Wow.
Check out the video, or download the code from the original post.

February 9th, 2010, by alex

40 Android Business Models

While trying to figure out how to get access to paid apps on the Android Market in Canada (come on, Google… you know you want to, the Canadian dollar is strong nowadays), I stumbled on a blog series listing possible Android business models. There is probably nothing revolutionary, but the ideas are short, sweet, [...]

September 11th, 2009, by alex

Funny thing

Preparing an app for distribution on Android:
1. Click on File/Export
2. Select Export Android Application, click Next
3. Follow the steps in the wizard.
4. Done!

August 31st, 2009, by alex

Android - binding to the Music app service to find currently playing song

For an Android app I’m working on I need to find out what song, if any, is playing in the background on the device. Turns out there’s no documented way to do this on Android - but it also turns out that using an open source platform is great. After a few hours [...]