Can’t Find App on Android Market

Posted on April 13th, 2010

androidmarketI am having reports that new HTC Desire users are having problems finding my apps on the Android Market. I have done some digging and here’s the problem.

This problem (with the Desire - I know it has happened previously with other devices) has been around for at least 2 weeks now. It’s time Google improved their end-user support.

Free Android Icons

Posted on April 9th, 2010

androidiconsLast month I posted on including Android’s built-in icons in your application. If you need extra icons you might like to take a look at androidicons.com.  There’s a free package that includes 30 PNG icons.

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The author also offers an icon design service.

Garaphical Android Market Sales

Posted on April 8th, 2010

androidmarket1Previously, when mentioning some problems (and solutions) with the Android Market I linked to a few ways to programatically fetch Android sales statistics.

Today, I came across a third example how to do this using Python. It provides a graph/plot of market sales from Google.

Number of Android Applications

Posted on April 6th, 2010

androlibAndroLib has an interesting chart on the number of new applications added to the Android Market over time. It shows that March was a very strong month…

androidnewappspermonth

However, you should look beyond the numbers. Last week, I had a long look through the applications and was surprised how many were variants of dictionaries or clocks/watches with fancy images. The number of applications with substantial functionality is far less that the headline numbers might suggest. There’s still lots of opportunity to be the first to create many kinds of Android application.

Android Image Processing

Posted on March 31st, 2010

If you are thinking of doing some image processing on Android, you might like to take a look at Michael Wells  report (pdf) on image processing on Android. It benchmarks some common image processing functions (sobel, addition, convolution and threshold) and provides some sample code.

It shows that’s it’s possible to do simple image processing under Java without resorting to using the NDK.