Android Best Practices: MAT

When you want to improve an Android application performance, you need to do profiling. Welcome MAT! What is MAT? It’s a Java heap analyzer tool introduced by Eclipse that helps you find memory leaks. How-To First you need to extract a hprof file from the Android device. When run
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Must read: ItudeMobile

Did you look at the media channels of Itude Mobile already?. You don’t know Itude Mobile! From 2005 Itude Mobile has provided mobile websites and mobile applications to a variety of organisations such as Cordys, BinckBank, Alex.nl and content providers such as Tonetastic. These
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Update: Android SDK Tools r15 And ADT 15

As some of you already may have noticed, the new Android 4.0 SDK Tools and ADT 14 contained some manor bugs. For example a scrolling issue in the new Logcat or the not so complete changes they made regarding Android Library projects (apkLib). If you are interested in the complete list
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Android Best Practices: StrictMode

When developing Android applications that uses network and database access, you need to do performance tuning. This is where StrictMode comes in handy StrictMode? StrictMode is used to detect memory leaks. It’s has introduced in Gingerbread and can be used as a development tool.
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Don’t forget the tools

Besides the release Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) software development kit (SDK) don’t forget the new SDK Tools and ADT 14. The new features for the SDK tools and ADT are listed on the Android Developers website. To summarize, those are as follows: Improved Eclipse Welcome wi
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A closer look at Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)

Google has (finally) released its Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) software development kit (SDK). So let’s take a closer look.
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Will HTML5 kill native apps?

A question that is circulating on the web and that I’m hearing ever more often from clients is the following: “Will HTML5 kill native apps?“ Having developed mobile websites, mobile webapps and native mobile apps since the technologies first came out naturally I̵
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Nokia’s and Microsoft’s moment of truth approaching soon

The Nokia world conference is planned on October 26-27. Since Nokia’s Windows Phones are announced for Q4 2011, it is likely that Nokia will announce these at the conference. This would mark a significant moment for both Nokia and Microsoft. Nokia Nokia has announced that Windows Phon
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Good things are coming

While a few committed individuals have been camping out for the iPhone 4S for some time now, others are now beginning to filter toward their local Apple retail stores in their attempts to secure one of the new models.     But wait there is more news… No not about Apple
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DroidconNL 2011

Just a short post to share that I will be speaking at the droidconNL conference next month. The conference will happen in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on the 22/23 of November. You can read more at the official site: http://droidcon.nl. ’ll be talking about Prototyping your Android app
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