Almost 20 years ago, I decided I wanted to try and learn Japanese. Other than studying the language’s grammar and vocabulary, I also had to learn the basic symbols used by the Japanese language – the Kana – so I could read Japanese properly. The Kana consists of 96 symbols (plus variants) which are to […]
Continue reading →Google has updated the Android dashboards with statistics of Android version distribution for the week ending on September 4, 20313. As expected, newer versions of Android are slowly becoming more popular, while the ever-lasting Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) is slowly disappearing. The notable fact is the absence on statistics of the very latest Android version, Android […]
Continue reading →I’ve been toying around with creating OUYA content with Adobe AIR, and I’m happy to say it’s a pretty easy and straightforward development workflow. Information on it is hard to come by, though, and the official Adobe AIR support samples doesn’t seem to exist anymore, so here’s a few high-level notes on how to get […]
Continue reading →It’s time for Android developers to start creating their applications for Android version 4.0 or higher. My own personal and experimental Android applications are seeing a bigger Android 4+ user base than anything else. Kana Mind, for example, supports Android 2.2+ but only 5% of its user base is using this version… 36% is on […]
Continue reading →In some ways, I was never a very good student. When I was around 12 years old, one of the biggest problems I had in school was that I would always forget when home work was due, or days we had tests. I remember I’d arrive at school and my friends would ask me if […]
Continue reading →With Kana Mind released (even if still in beta form), I figured I’d talk a little bit about the experience of writing a mobile application using Flash (and Adobe AIR) as a platform (there’s also the weird timing of Adobe announcing they won’t be updating the Flash plugin for mobile devices anymore, focusing instead on AIR apps). The […]
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