Introduction In this post I go through the detailed steps to get you set up with QtCreator Android app development. If you’re like me and like Qt/QtQuick/QML, or you’d simply like to explore this option, you might find the detailed set of steps, collected in one place helpful. The steps described here worked on 64-bit […]

In recent release of Android SDK tools Google decided to remove the previously provided GUI utilities for managing SDK packages and AVDs. If you don’t want to install the full Android Studio, everything now must be done via the command line interface. In fact, if you try to use previously valid commands, such as ./android […]

It wasn’t a tough call or anything but back in March I did guess that Amazon was planning a Kindle running on Android. Why else would they start their own app store? Now that their strategy is actually taking shape it unsurprisingly presents Amazon-skinned Kindle Fire Android device geared towards its users consuming more Amazon […]

Nokia “picking” Windows Phone for their future is not a surprise. It wasn’t to me, anyway. You don’t pick a former Microsoft big head, Stephen Elop, to lead you anywhere else besides Microsoft. In other words, you don’t buy a screwdriver and expect it to hammer nails. On a side note, that billion dollar cash […]

Amazon it planning to launch an Android tablet device. There is no other way around it. Why? Because there is no reason for Amazon to launch their Android app store otherwise. There is no incentive for them to do favors to Google, or to any of Android tablet manufacturers, which are also Amazon’s competitors, by […]