Android Icon Designer

Hi readers, sorry that I have been lost in the blogging world for so long. Lately I am developing for some FREE apps. I make it for FREE is because as the Malaysia developers we still cannot sell the commercial product at Android market. Anyway, I am putting some resource that I founded during the development. These two site helps you to create your Android app icon on the fly with some clicks. Both of them are following the guidelines for creating Android icon. (Guideline is here)  The two URLs below are

1. http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio/dist/icons-launcher.html#foreground.type=clipart&foreground.space.trim=0&foreground.space.pad=0.4&foreground.clipart=res%2Fclipart%2Ficons%2Fpower.svg&crop=0&shape=square&backColor=303138%2C100&foreColor=fffaff%2C36&foreEffect=2
2. http://www.androidicongenerator.net/

Please try out for designing some simple Android icon. Anyway you still need Photoshop or Gimp if you need a complex one. Please do let me know if you have any other suggestion! 

Hello Android again

photo © 2009 Lynn Wallenstein | more info (via: Wylio)

I have been busy since few months ago and at last have some free time to continue explore Android development.  I didn't post about Android related topic since last year about 28-December 2009.  I already did some research about the blogs, recommended books, sources and forums that related to Android development since few months ago. I will share some of them here and you may find more resource from my last post that I wrote on 28-December-2009:
Blogs:

• http://blog.lytsing.org/
  • Blog that have Android related post and written in Chinese.
• http://www.androidcore.com 
  • A Blog that contains a lot of tutorials
• http://www.wiseandroid.com 
  • Blog that post about Android tutorials and thoughts
• http://www.androidcompetencycenter.com/ 
  • Blog that help you to build your Android skills
• http://mylifewithandroid.blogspot.com 
  • I like it and a very informative blog

Forums

• http://www.eoeandroid.com/ 
  • Forum, this is useful if you know Chinese or learned Chinese before
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android
  • Well known forum for developers that called StackOverflow
• http://www.anddev.org/ 
  • Forum that let you ask about Android related questions

Source codes

• http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/  
  • It hosted about 16 Android app source code, you may download the source code to learn how they are coded.
• http://code.google.com/p/android-smspopup/
  • Sample app that listen to SMS Broadcast receiver that will popup SMS notification.
• http://code.google.com/p/opensudoku-android/
  • You can learn and read the Sudoku game source code here

Books

• http://commonsware.com/Android/
  • The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development book from Commonsware
  • You may buy Warescription to have access right to download his four Android e-books.I found out it is quite easy to learn.
• http://101freetechbooks.com/bookdetail.aspx?id=90ff9d9c-b8a9-4210-90f0-f1a84ab2b97f
  • Pro Android 2 book from APress 
• http://101freetechbooks.com/bookdetail.aspx?id=c00d3307-3784-43da-8d1f-b8419d2ff01c
  • Pro Android Games that teach you how to start your game development on Android mobile device. 
• http://101freetechbooks.com/bookdetail.aspx?id=344c6cad-22aa-403d-ac87-59e0306103e4
  • Best Android Apps book from O'Reilly Media that I like to read it to have Android market survey. 

Last and not least, I wonder you already aware of 101ftb.com that provides you a chance to win free technical books that in hard copy format. If not mistaken, some of the countries won't have book to ship to them but they will win Amazon gift card of vouchers for example Malaysia. My friend already won twice from that Monthly Raffle. Anyway, you can join it right now and try your luck for the next Raffle.  Please let me know if you have any resource that you think is mandatory to add in. Enjoy the resources and happy Tuesday!

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Excited and learning Google Android development

I am execited about Google Android based phone lately. I am learning and finding some resources about Android and also development. For the moment right now, there are some Android phone in the market, such as Motorola DROID, HTC Magic, HTC Hero, Sony Ericssion X10 and so on. For more information about Android powered phone, please take a look at http://www.androphones.com/. If you are still wondering what is Android, you may find some details about Android Mobile OS from Wikipedia. For developers in Android, I found some simple tutorials that helps me to understand Android development. There are listed as below, you may need Eclipse or Netbeans IDE to develop it:

• How to Program Google Android http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-19-n27.html
• Android Development with Eclipse http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html
• Introduction to Android development by IBM http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-android-devel/
• Google Android Tutorial http://java.dzone.com/articles/google-android-tutorial

And for sure, we won't miss out the tutorials and dev guides from Android Official site: http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html and also forum http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers.

Some Android development related videos:

• A first hand look at building an Android application http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ObTqIiYfE
• Android Talk Channel in Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/androiddevelopers

In case you are in living Malaysia especally Kuala Lumpur area, you may attend their meet up all the times. Please get more details from the Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=133530318700&ref=ts. Last but not least, try to join this forum too, I found out it have quite number of resources http://www.anddev.org/viewforum.php?f=8. And for the Android mobile phone beginners, you may try to take a look at the list of Android Starter Apps shared by CNET,

Editted 31-DEC-09

Added some blogrolls that write Android related posts, please enjoy :

http://saigeethamn.blogspot.com/

http://www.helloandroid.com/tutorials

http://davanum.wordpress.com

http://bakhtiyor.com/