Hello Android
After being reading few chapters from Learn Android in 24 Hours-kinda books, I couldn't resist so I jumped to Canvas graphics. Just a panel to draw whatever you want and be able to control basic events.
Today in the job a friend of mine showed me a simple visual game so I decided that this could be a good hello world application.
Of course is still just a draft but I'm quite happy with the programming experience while coding it and reading about the SDK
More tests coming soon :)
My new toy
Last days I decided to get a new toy :) (I really deserved it). The toy is the amazing Samsung Galaxy S with the, more amazing even, Android OS.
I should confess I'm quite impress with the usability of this device. Just plug in your computer and copy your files, pdf, docx, pptx, mp3, avi (divx). You dont need any disgusting software (itunes) or any converter for those file formats, just really plug and play.
And speaking about the phone itself, it's quite beautiful, lightweight and the screen is very big and with bright colours (AMOLED 4"). It has also quite good perfomance as you can see on this video compared with HTC Desire and Nexus One. Using this phone I've change my feelings while using other Android phones from: "Yeah... it's good, it's almost similar than iphone" to: "Omg, iphone is crap".
Anway the most interesting part, and the main reason why I bought it, is to code something for it, so I've just found few books and I'll try to make something funny with it!!.
Javascript spikeball
Few days ago I was speaking with mrdoob about 3d engines and he showed me one of the projects he's working on: three.js it's a javascript framework to be able to use the browser canvas to paint 3D stuff :)
Its sounded funny: 3D... optimization... it's looks "just" like other demoscene plataform.
So I'm trying to help to improve it and while getting use of the js syntax and so on, here you have a little test I've made (just click on it):
Btw, the effect is based on the code of one of our Stravaganza productions: This way (64kb version also available here)