1/7/2023 0 Comments Younow wedgie google drive![]() ![]() Spring Android is an open source project with a REST encapsulation set of classes to make those kinds of calls easy inside Android. I learned that AsyncTasks are great for background tasks, but not for a task that may get killed mid-run if the device orientation changes as they will get cancelled (use a Service instead). He pointed out how many of them are also designed to look like an iOS app… which is incongruous and confusing for an Android user and basically to “don’t do that”. He talked about WebView apps and how many of them are designed on-the-cheap as a way to target several different mobile ecosystems with one app. He was in town for the FCC’s meeting on Accessibility in Mobile Apps and the Mobile Web and agreed to be one of the speakers for this little shindig. The first speaker was David Chandler who is the primary developer behind the WebView widget and is the primary force behind GWT. =D If you follow the meeting link, you can see the pictures taken at that event. A big thanks to both AOL for the room and Google for the food. ![]() The Google guys bought tons of pizza for everyone. The meeting was held in an auditorium of AOL’s campus which was pretty nice and could hold easily hold the 200 attendees. I had the privilege of being one of the 200 or so attending a Google Dev Group meeting in which a few of Google’s Android Developer Advocates gave a couple of talks as well as had the AOL development team present a demo of their work which will soon be published in the market.
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