Entries Tagged 'Embedded' ↓
December 17th, 2008 by Fredrik Olsson — Architecture, Design Patterns, Embedded, Frameworks, Programming
I described in my previous post how you can change the class of a live object instance. The use-case was a workaround for bug in Cocoa Touch’s UIKit. What if I could fix the bug, instead of applying a work around in my sub-class?
With Objective-C you can
In short the problem is that the implementation of [...]
Tags: iphone, java, objective-c, tips
December 17th, 2008 by Henrik Larne — Embedded
When developing in Java ME and wanting to support several different devices, you wil no doubt run into problems with devices behaving differently. In some cases it is only the appearance that changes and in others the actual functionality varies or breaks. The first step in solving this is to run your Midlet in the [...]
Tags: bluetooth, java, logging, mobile
December 9th, 2008 by Fredrik Olsson — Embedded, Events, Frameworks, Programming, Usability
Apple has arranged a world tour of iPhone Tech Talks, and in cold december it was Scandinavia’s turn and a crew of software evangelists from Apple turned up at KTH in Stockholm for a full day of sessions.
The sessions are confidential so I will keep this post vague on the technical parts, not revealing any [...]
Tags: apple, design, iphone, mobile, sdk, tricks
November 25th, 2008 by Fredrik Olsson — Embedded, Frameworks, Programming
Last friday I attended an excellent session at Øredev 2008, on Android by Mike Jennings from Google. At the end of the presentation Mike show the code for a simple application with a bouncing blue ball, controlled by the accelerometer. What stroke me was that the git of the application was 85 lines of code, [...]
Tags: accelerometer, android, iphone, objective-c, oredev, tutorial
November 21st, 2008 by Peter Neubauer — Embedded, Linux, Open Source, Programming
Hi there,
Öredev was great success, especially all the people and the organization - a big Thank You to Michael and Emily for making this possible, you rock!
Now, it was really awesome to exchange Android games with Mike Jennings fro the Android team, and get him excited over the recent Android port to the Neo FreeRunner! [...]
Tags: android, java, mobile, oredev
November 21st, 2008 by Peter Neubauer — Embedded, Programming
Since the release of the Android SDK 1.0, people (including me) have been complaining about the lack of connectivity for the very convenient Smack API to talk to Googles GTalk servers following http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/android-just-use-smack-api-for-xmpp/, see here.
However, yesterday @Oredev, I met Mike Jennings from the Android team and together we looked into this problem over a beer [...]
Tags: android, mobile, oredev
July 10th, 2008 by Fredrik Olsson — Embedded, Frameworks, Open Source
HessianKit, an implementation of the Hessian binary web service protocol for Objective-C 2.0 have now been released under Apache License 2. It is available on sourceforge at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hessiankit
HessianKit is available for Mac OS X 10.5 and later, and iPhone OS 2.0. The three main goals are:
* To be as compliant and forgiving as possible.
* Provide seamless [...]
Tags: hessian, iphone, java, objective-c, webservice
March 9th, 2008 by Fredrik Olsson — Embedded, Frameworks, Programming, Tools
My first reaction is that it is polished. Very polished. I have used the unofficial SDK for iPhone OS 1.x software, and nearly everything from iPhone OS 1.x has been redesigned. Small changes from renaming, to removal of changes, and addition of complete frameworks.
Not only the provided Frameworks are polished even in beta, so are [...]
Tags: iphone, mobile, sdk