Hacking Android fun
This holiday weekend, I’m spending my time just hacking Google’s Android. I’m writing a location-based todo list (yes, a unique idea, I know). The purpose of the exercise is to learn how to write Android code in Eclipse.
So far, it is a fun experience. I’m only one day into a three-day personal hackathon but I’ve got something working already. I need to add a little more database code, write the GPS stuff and then put it on the n810. I’ll let you know how much progress I make today.
One thing I’ve noticed though: Although Eclipse is a pretty cool IDE and Android seems like a good framework, I can’t help feeling like I’ve done this before. The design patterns are defintely the same ones I used 25 years ago. Sure, the IDE was Turbo C and the framework wasn’t object-oriented but it still feels the same.
And since a car analogy is always an appropriate metaphor for a technical topic, I’ll repharse the above to ask “Why does it feel like I’m driving an ‘85 Camaro with spinning LED rims?”
Anyway, back to the hack…
Tags: android computer programming Eclipse
September 4th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Have your tried Aptana?
http://www.aptana.com/
I think it’s based on Eclipse.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
No, I haven’t. That looks interesting. Thanks for the pointer.