Android update

It has been a busy few weeks, what with the Six Nations rugby championship starting a few weeks ago, plus things in work getting a lot more hectic, I have not had chance to work very much on my projects or to be updating things here!

I have had some time here and there, and over the last few weeks (mainly just some time here and there on the weekends) I have been working on my Android project, and I must say I am quite enjoying it. The Android sdk/emulator platform combined with the Eclipse plugin is suprisingly mature for something that is only a few years old, and I have been making progress with my Twitter application (provisionally called Zippy - although the screenshots are still showing Soundbiter - my other microblogging platform).

I have been making Activities here and there, but today I sat down and starting stringing things together.

So now, I have a logon screen, a view of all the latest tweets from the current users friends, a list view of current friends and a profile view - next up is to add some functionality to the context menus and add a search, retweet, message options and it will be coming close to realease...

Updates

Well, things have been pretty busy here and I havent had much dedicated time for my projects. That said I have been making some moves on some things, my GoogleApp project is coming on nicely, and it is going to be tieing in with some micro blogging and hopefully tie in to a couple of the popular sites (twitter, facebook, now probably Google Buzz!) - the UI aspect hasnt really begun, but the Domain model and the controller/daos have largely been put together, so hopefully once I have some basic UI components coming together I should have a beta version of the app ready to demo.

Something else that I have spent some time doing this week is setting up my personal site. Its hosted at www.thirdmindmedia.co.uk, which is an address I have owned for several years (it actually hosted a community forum for south wales from about 2005-2009) but had been dormant for a few months so I thought I might as well have some fun, and host some of the projects stuff there. So yeah, check it out at www.thirdmindmedia.co.uk