Geinimi Trojan in Android apps

Android apps are coming like any thing now a days. As a we are enthusiastic to install many apps in our mobiles and test it we should be very care full and selective in loading new applications in our Android mobiles . There is a chance to leave our personal information to others.Trojans can be installed along with our newly installed application. It can transfer our important information like IMEI, location based information to hackers.Look at the below article.

Geinimi Android trojan piggybacks 3rd-party apps & sends personal info to hackers Android Community: "be at risk. Still, it’s a good idea to check the security"

Creating Menus | Android Developers

In many of our Android applications we do need Menus. So our next question is how to achieve this in Android. We can do it in different ways. We can do this complete using Layouts. Some thing like design a layout with all menu options and add it in all places where ever we require it.If we need Android specific menus then we can do this as specified in this documentation. Visit this link to get details about it.
Creating Menus Android Developers

XML Parsing in Android

Guys , we know how much important an xml is for us. We do get data in xml format in many situations . This is one of the easiest way to transfer data. So it is very important to know how to deal with xml in Android project.

A very good example is well explained here.
Android XML Parsing Tutorial – Using SAXParser Androidpeople
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/x-android/

Some cool Android tips and tricks on official google blog

I know many of you are already started exploring Gingerbread. I did not get a chance to taste it at all. I am so excited to see it live. If you want to see some tips and apps works on Android 2.3(Gingerbread) then you go to this below link
Official Google Blog: Some cool Android tips and tricks

Want to give a try to your ideas

"I have many ideas in my mind" - this is what i say many times to myself. I believe u too. So did you ever try to implement them. I know what you will say. There are many restrictions and limitations to do them. If your hurdle is 'No infrastructure' then i can show you a way to do. Why can't we use free cloud computing technology. That too our(at least me) favourite Google's own App engine. We can do our java/j2ee application and deploy that to APP ENGINE and give a domain name (free/paid) to access that from anywhere. That's it. Now we can get our own middle ware services over the Internet.It can also supports 500 MB free data storage. So we can build client (desktop/web/mobile) and access that our java services from anywhere. I hope it gives a fly to your innovative ideas


Wanna know more about Google app engine

What Is Google App Engine? - Google App Engine - Google Code

 

Dreaming about Screen Widgets

Hi Friends, I am trying to do one small screen widget which lists out some image ads on the Android mobile's home screen. I searched many blogs to get it done but no luck. Actually i am interested to display content in horizontal listview format. Where user can drag/slide ads left and right directions. But i am disappointed by knowing that remoteview only supports some basic widgets like textbox and buttons. So now i am trying to do it manually. Lets see how this will be done. I will post updates if i find a way for this.

Fun started using XMPP

As i said in my previous post , started playing with XMPP protocol. Here is the list of things i have done. First i started researching about XMPP,how it works,features. Then i searched for a good open-source XMPP server and installed Openfire 3.6.4.  Even i also installed MY SQL 5.5 community edition to log all Openfire related data. To do small kind of DB operations easily i also installed MY SQL workbench 5.2 .Now i spent some good enough time to explore all the existing features in Openfire. I am amazed by its list of features.
Then to play around it, i installed Spark XMPP/Jabber client in all of my room mates laptops and connected to LAN using wifi.
That's it. You too can enjoy all the features of it. Follow the same steps as i specified and have fun
So my next step is to develop my own XMPP client as spark for Android. WOW.. this thought just giggles me a lot.

XMPP fun

a very good tutorial to know on what is XMPP and how it is being used in messaging , is available at

http://www.adarshr.com/papers/xmpp/
http://www.adarshr.com/papers/xmpp2

Now it is time to Optimize

We do coding always but many of developers never worry about performance and application quality.It results user to ignore our app. To prevent this we should take a step now. So this is the time to look into some informative posts
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/10/improving-app-quality.html
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/10/traceview-war-story.html

Smack Documentation - Jive Software

Friends...
i started to do a small chat application and trying to figure out possible ways to do it. So i understood that need to learn XMPP(EXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) . I figured out that ,should use one XMPP server and have to build XMPP client for that.
So my initial step is learn XMPP library to build client application. As i am interested more on java side, decided to start it with SMACK XMPP java library
Here you too can find it Smack Documentation - Jive Software

A new way to market your mobile apps

Hi all..
Just now i came across an interesting news from one of my friend and thought of sharing it with you all. Many of mobile application developers face issues in reaching customers directly. Usually we develop mobile applications and put them in appstores and wait for customers. So we never sure whether we directly reach to the interested parties.Those who are tired of this process can try out a new method in reaching cutomers thorugh ads.
For further details
http://mobileapps.com/

Google appstore started for Chrome OS

Guys ... google has started app store for Chrome OS. Chrome OS is still in beta stage. so now they are giving notebooks to all whoever interested to test the OS . So guys hurry up and grab it . All you need is interested to test Chrome OS and should be in US :)

Gingerbread came out!!!!!!!!!!

Android has released a new version called Gingerbread(2.3) on 6th december 2010. Check out more about this at http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-23-platform-and-updated-sdk.html

wow!!!! Surprised to see my two favourites android and spring at one place

I never expected that i will be able to see my favourites the legendary Spring and Android at one place. Once i came to know that they have been friends for each other since 23days, then there are no limits to my happyness. At the same time it is warning me that i am not updating myself with Spring features. So i strongly decided to never loose any of further updates from Spring source and Android.

Spring has recently joined the mobile application development and showed its interest towards Android development by releasing  "Spring Moblie" and "Spring Android"on 19th November 2010 .
Buddies you too can taste it at  http://blog.springsource.com/2010/11/19/spring-into-mobile-application-development/

As you expect , my next step is 'GRAB it as much as i can '