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Mobialia at LabAndroid

This week I was speaking at LabAndroid, a spanish initiative about Android devices, apps and development.

I developed a special app for this event called “Wikiplaces” and I made the code avaiable as open source on Google Code.

This app shows on a map or on a list places from Wikipedia near your location. . . . → Read More: Mobialia at LabAndroid

Dealing with the “Bitmap Size Exceeds VM Budget” error

One of the most common errors that I found developing Android Apps is the “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Bitmap Size Exceeds VM Budget” error. I found this error frecuently on activities using lots of bitmaps after changing orientation: the Activity is destroyed, created again and the layouts are “inflated” from the XML consuming the VM memory avaiable . . . → Read More: Dealing with the “Bitmap Size Exceeds VM Budget” error

Find Android apps with AppBrain

One of the first things that you can notice after buying an Android phone is the great amount of mobile applications (apps) that you can download from the Android Market, but searching for a specific app can be very frustrating, and a time-consuming task.

This is due to one of the biggest problems of . . . → Read More: Find Android apps with AppBrain

Google DevFest 2010

As many of you know, this year I’m involved on Android with my project Mobialia. On February I was on the Android Developer Lab at Madrid and today I returned for the Google DevFest.

The event started with Dave Burke presenting Google Technologies in general. Many jokes about the iPhone (to show the Chrome2Phone . . . → Read More: Google DevFest 2010

Presentación sobre Android na SobrosoParty 2010

Mañá vou facer unha presentación de Android e organizar un pequeno workshop na SobrosoParty (http://www.sobrosoparty.es). Tamén falarei do meu novo proxecto Mobialia e das aplicacións para Android que teño feitas. A presentación de mañá se pode descargar no seguinte enlace:

android_sobrosoparty.pdf

Mobialia Chess for Android

The new version 2.0 adds the support to play online on freechess.org (FICS). You can play against people all around the world and compare your chess knowledge. Thousands of hours of entertainment with this new version.

Also has many improvements on the interface and gameplay, which makes Mobialia Chess 2.0 the best chess app . . . → Read More: Mobialia Chess for Android