Tag Archives: Android

Thoughts for mobile in 2013 and beyond

Today Canonical announced the mobile version of Ubuntu. For me as a Linux fan this is very exciting news, however, the developer in me screams: “Not another phone I need to target when writing mobile apps”. I’m surely not the only one thinking that. Currently the major smartphone OSes on the market are Apple iOS, [...]

Getting started with Android C2DM

Having realized you need push notifications in your Andorid application you head over to the official C2DM page to read more about it. After finishing it you still don’t have a clear understanding on how to actually implement the 3rd party application server so that it would satisfy all of the criteria mentioned there. Here we will go through the very first steps to get you started: signing up for C2DM and getting a better understanding on how to authenticate with Google so you could access the API.