[android-beginners] Re: What phone to buy for development?

2010-03-16 Thread Edward Falk
Yes, any phone will do. You don't need a developer's phone unless you're doing OS development. My personal preference is to use the slowest and most primitive device available for development purposes. That way, once your app works on that device, it will work anywhere. Use emulators to test

[android-beginners] Re: what can I make for Android?

2010-03-06 Thread Edward Falk
Flashlight App or a Tip Calculator. I LoL'ed OK, Mr. Big Shot College Boy, see if you can come up with a reasonable FFT library, make it free, and publish it. It will be tricky, because the Java VM on Android is insanely slow. If you feel really ambitious you can use the NDK (native