Problem
I was looking at the Android software development kit (ADK) yesterday, while I was trying to test my latest app out on android, and the emulator was running extremely slow on my fast computer, so I googled "slow android emulator", just to make sure it was not only me. As it runs out, it was not, many people are upset about the speed of the emulator.
Solution
I thought, hey wait a minute, maybe we could fix this, if it was running on similar hardware, like a mobile device. Then I thought, why not run the emulator on an iPad? This might be crazy, but I know I would like to have an emulator that could start up android apps, I don't actually want the full emulator with the browser and settings, I just want to show me a list of apps, and let me click one. The iPad would be more the fast enough to support this, and it has hardware features that are similar to that of the android tablets.
It's also worth noting that the emulator is not open source, so it would not be a simple thing to do, but I am wondering why not have Google do it? It would increase the size of it's install base, not something they are currently very concerned with, but it would also mean, that android runs everywhere, and that was a theme at Google IO this year.
I will keep my fingers crossed on this one.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
iPhone Required Change
Problem
It can not be just me, the iPhone should have had this functionality built in at least by IOS 3. The notifications (blue notifications on startup screen), should be saved in a stream, that users can go back through at any time, so that if you missed a notification, maybe it was covered by a missed call for instance, you could see what you have missed.
It' would be very helpful to most iPhone users who have more then one notification source, and I believe that is almost all iPhone users.
Idea
It would be good for the feature to run as an app. The user clicks the app, and it lists all of the prior notifications, and clicking a notification will lead you to the app that fired that notification, just as if you clicked on it on the home screen. It would also be nice to list the app that fired the notification in the first place, even showing the app icon as a reminder.
There are apps that sound like they can help, but they are actually very different animals.
Take for instance, Push 4.0. This app is actually an app that will support new push notifications to your phone, but does not help with the existing notifications.
It can not be just me, the iPhone should have had this functionality built in at least by IOS 3. The notifications (blue notifications on startup screen), should be saved in a stream, that users can go back through at any time, so that if you missed a notification, maybe it was covered by a missed call for instance, you could see what you have missed.
It' would be very helpful to most iPhone users who have more then one notification source, and I believe that is almost all iPhone users.
Idea
It would be good for the feature to run as an app. The user clicks the app, and it lists all of the prior notifications, and clicking a notification will lead you to the app that fired that notification, just as if you clicked on it on the home screen. It would also be nice to list the app that fired the notification in the first place, even showing the app icon as a reminder.
There are apps that sound like they can help, but they are actually very different animals.
Take for instance, Push 4.0. This app is actually an app that will support new push notifications to your phone, but does not help with the existing notifications.
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