Next Book: The Teaser

We have have slipped a clue or two in before this. However, this little clue should give away a fair bit of what we're working on for our next book. By request, this is being targeted as a less advanced book when compared to the previous one (which is, of course, available now).

Enjoy! ;)

Android 1.6 SDK Now Available

Welcome to API Level 4!

The Android 1.6 SDK is now available for download. Many of the highlights are good for users and manufacturers, such as a Market update and support for CDMA hardware. What's good for users is good for developers. Also included is a new gestures framework and a tool for creating gestures, multi-lingual and accent text-to-speech, and better search capabilities.

The API changes list is relatively small; this is an incremental upgrade with some nice features, but not a sweeping change by any means.

The update is set to be on handsets as early as October, according to the release notes.

Android App Widget Article on User Interaction Published

Our next article about Android App Widgets has been published over at developer.com. This time, we talk about how to add user interaction to an App Widget using the limited RemoteViews ability to register Intents to trigger when a user touches an item. This article builds upon our previous article, which discussed building an App Widget with a custom -- and user configurable -- update rate.

Go build some great interactive widgets now!

Android Wireless Application Development Now available!

Our first book, Android Wireless Application Development, is now in stock and available for purchase.