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MobileCONGalicia 2011

El viernes pasado, y gracias a la iniciativa de María Encinar (@encinar) y Martín Pérez (@mpermar), se llevó a cabo el primer evento para desarrolladores móviles en Galicia: MobileCONGalicia.

Las ponencias fueron de los más variado, tuvimos a:

Eugenio Estrada (@eugenioestrada) un crack de Windows Phone nos metió a todos el gusanillo de desarrollar . . . → Read More: MobileCONGalicia 2011

Google DevFest 2011 BCN

This week I assisted to the Google DevFest 2011 Barcelona. This year it was celebrated on a great “garage” located on an industrial area of Barcelona. I will tell the more interesting things that I found on the different sessions:

NEW IN HTML

As usual, this session presented by Paul Kinlan showed us the future of HTML5. I . . . → Read More: Google DevFest 2011 BCN

Mobile 2.0 Open Ideas

This year I was invited to organize a workshop at the Mobile 2.0 Open Ideas event at Barcelona, on 16-17 June. With my experience developing Android apps at Mobialia and the social media integration on Martin Varsavsky’s RadioMe, I proposed the workshop:

Bulding Social Media Enabled Android Apps

This will be a 1-hour . . . → Read More: Mobile 2.0 Open Ideas

SobrosoParty 2011

Hoxe sábado ás 18 horas repetimos o laboratorio de Android “A Miña Primera Aplicación Android” na SobrosoParty no Pavillón Municipal de Ponteareas. Neste taller usaremos como exemplo a aplicación WikiPlaces para explicar cales son os pasos da creación dunha aplicación Android, dende a instalación do SDK e a configuración do Eclipse ata a súa . . . → Read More: SobrosoParty 2011

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