Category: mobile

#hhl09 Hand Held Learning day 1 review

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First presentation of the day by Dawn was great. I didn’t agree with the guy from the second presentation. I then walked around the exhibitors hall, most of which was pointless and confusing as at a hand held learning a lot of devices exhibited were net books which as far as I’m aware isn’t hand held according to um.. Hand Held Learning…..

I don’t know who vetted the presenters but that might need reviewing.. It was good to see the spinny netbook things we have ordered in the flesh before they arrive in the office and also a semi affordable class feedback system (£1600 for a class set)

I didn’t eat/drink at the conference as I went to meet friends/family at a pub for lunch, we came back to see a few semi decent presentations on web2 and mobile learning then it seriously went off on a tangent..
Lots of people who I wanted to meet were there. My twitter was buzzing and I think I gained a lot from chatting with people.
After the conference we headed out for food before heading back to the conference venue to the evening function which we left during the awards ceremony.. The awards ceremony was a joke and I won’t be going again next year. Sorry to say that but at £6 for a bottle of beer and £25 for the best value bottle of wine…
My impression from the conference was that it wasn’t about learning but about money. Everything was incredibly over priced, from the tickets to the exhibitors stands and from the wine to the nibbles. In comparison to #fote09 this was not an inclusive conference..
Time to practice what we preach? Let’s see if BETT2010 is a similar experience…

Quick start developing for Android using SDK

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1. Download Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/ (.180MB file)

2. Extract to c:\android

3. Download Eclipse IDE for Java EE dev from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ (.180MB file)

4. Extract to c:\eclipse

5. Start – Run – type: cmd

6. Type –> Cd \ – CD android – CD tools

7. Type –> android create avd –target 2 –name my_avd

8. Hit enter

9. Right click My computer – properties – advanced – Environment Variables – Under System Variables add ;c:\android\tools

10. OK / OK

11. Run c:\eclipse\eclipse.exe

12. Click OK

13. Click Help

14. Click Install new software

15. Add

16. Name = Android

17. Location = https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

.18. OK

19. Wait for it to finish “Pending”

20. Click Developer Tools

21. Click Next

22. Click Next

23. Read the T&C’s

24. Click I accept

25. Click Finish

26. Click yes to Restart Eclipse

27. Click OK

28. Click Windows – Preferences

29. Click android

30. Click browse

31. Browse to c:\android

32. Click Apply/OK

33. Click File/New/Project/Android/Android project

34. Package Name: hello

35. Select Android 1.1

36. Applicationame = helloworld

37. PackageName = hello.world

38. Create Activity = hello

39. Min SDK Version: 2

40. Expand out Hello > src > Hello.World > Hello.Java

41. Paste over the current code visible in the centre of the screen:

package Hello.World;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.widget.TextView;

public class hello extends Activity {

/** Called when the activity is first created. */

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

TextView tv = new TextView(this);

tv.setText(“Hello, Android”);

setContentView(tv);

}

}

42. Click Run / Run / Android Application

43. Click Yes to save changes

44. Wait quite a while – Tada…