I’m always told to start a speech with a good story, so I assume you’re supposed to start a blog entry with a bad story.

I’ve been doing Android development for some time, and before that I experimented with Palm and Blackberry, so I figured it was time for some hands-on iPhone programming as well. In this article I’d like to share a few of my initial experiences.

CampMobile is first native Basecamp client that is now available in Apple AppStore. There is a support for viewing/adding/editing/deleting of messages, todo lists, todo items, milestones and comments. All your Basecamp items are saved locally on the iPhone, so you don’t need internet connection all the time. There is a nice Dashboard view and most of the other functionalities you would expect.

Ok, so Android exists. We finally have hardware, we even have source code. What we didn't have was some game changing moment whereby we suddenly got control of our mobile phones. You know, the moment that Google has promised us for the last year. The reality of the situation is actually quite indicative of the attitudes in the cell phone world that even Google is powerless to affect. So, anyone who has actually gotten a G1 and has spent the time to try to do anything awesome with it have been utterly disappointed by the fact that we are just regular users on our own boxes: T-Mobile didn't give us root, being afraid of what we might do.

If you're interested in developing a game for the Android platform, there is a lot you need to know. If you have previous experience with game development, moving over to the Android platform won't be all that difficult. You will mostly just need to learn the architecture and API. If you're new to game development, Here is a list of must-knows for getting started in Android game development. This is a good starting point for developers seeking to write any type of mobile game.

I am excited to announce the release of a new Grails plug-in, iUI Plug-in version 0.2. This is the initial release of the plug-in. This plug-in installs the current version of the popular iUI library for developing native looking iPhone web applications. iUI is a combination of CSS, JavaScript and images for simplifying iPhone web applications and give the application a native iPhone application look and feel.

I created this diagram to illustrate how Java source code and other resources are compiled and packaged into an Android application.

In our last installment, we began a journey into the world of lowish-level networking on Mac OS X and iPhone. The first tutorial introduced the topic, and delved into Bonjour, which is a framework that helps devices find each other. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how you can make devices connect and talk to each other after they have been introduced, a process best described as ‘messaging’. We’ll be developing some basic messaging classes that will run on Mac and iPhone.

Using a concept called XMLVM (its opensource!!) its possible to develop java for iphone by cross compiling bytecode.

Russ Teabeault and I were just talking about our recent experiences with Objective-C and developing applications for either the iPhone or OS X. In general, we both agree that Objective-C is necessary, but painful. The language is quasi-dynamic, not very modern and poorly adopted.

Erik Stenman gives a short introduction to Erlang, arguing why it is so well suited for building high availability financial systems. He presents some key features of Erlang which have helped in making Kreditor a success, as well as touches on the downsides of using Erlang and some lessons learned from building a start-up with Erlang technology. Finally, Erik gives some advice on when to use Erlang and when not to. This talk was part of the QCon in Finance eXchange 2008 at Skills Matter in London.

But today, we're making what might just be the most exciting announcement of all: we and our Open Handset Alliance partners have now released the source code for Android. There's a huge amount of code and content there, so head over to http://source.android.com/ for all the details.

If you have been following my tutorials, you know that we have been working primarily with UITableViews. This is mostly because SO many applications can be developed using this simple control. This final UITableView tutorial will be taking all of the skills learned from previous tutorials, putting them all together, and adding SQLite to create a prioritized To-Do list. I will also be showing you how to add multiple columns to your table cells and we will be exploring some of the other controls that the iPhone has to offer. What good would the tutorials be if we didn’t use them to create something useful.

Bridge the gap between websites made for the browser and websites made for mobile devices. Turn your traditional website into a mobile website using Siruna.

What a difference a few years can make. Case in point: The way you implement mobile solutions for enterprise applications has changed dramatically. What caused this shift? The iPhone did, but probably not for the reasons you expect.

We just have reached code freeze in Netbeans organization, it means no more P3's bug fixes for this release. I think it's a good time to present next new feature of Netbeans Mobility 6.5 which is Visual Databinding. You should be familiar with idea of data binding but just to refresh your memory... - idea behind this technology is to "bind" any kind of data source (Data Base, Web Service, etc ...) to the data receiver which is very often UI elements. Basically it helps to create program which (for example) can automatically update state of UI based on changes in data source or/and vice versa.

Nitobi hacker Joe Bowser has ported PhoneGap to Android. (Yes, I work for Nitobi.) PhoneGap is MIT Licensed platform for bringing native phone features to the browser.

I am very happy to say that I will be at Devoxx this year to give a couple of presentations about Android.

For the past few weeks I have been testing out a piece of software for note taking. I found the software by luck trolling through www.stackoverflow.com. The software is called Evernote. It can do almost everything that is need to do when you need to take a quick note.

For years the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit for CLDC (WTK) has been the reference tool for developing mobile applications and emulating mobile platforms on the desktop. Among it's strengths was that it was compact, easy-to-use, came with a number of built-in useful tools such as memory monitoring and profiling, and most importantly, it featured a complete and up-to-date range of implementations of pretty much all finalized optional JSRs including full-set MSA (Mobile Services Architecture).

Ramat-Gan, Israel, October 13 – AtlasCT is announcing the release of version 3.2, the newest version of AtlasMobile™ API, an advanced package for location-based mobile applications development. The AtlasMobile API is designed for fast development of location-based applications in Java™ ME. The new version of AtlasMobile API is the most advanced in the market and most unique by its small footprint, high performance and low memory usage. It is compatible with low-end to high-end mobile devices either equipped with GPS or not.

Apple Drops iPhone Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA)

Similar to one of my first blog posts on building a basic application for Mac OS X using xcode 3.0, I am going to explain for beginning iPhone/iPod Touch developers how to build the most basic Cocoa Touch application using Interface Builder and an application delegate in xcode 3.1. This tutorial post is really to provide a quick how-to. I won’t go into any depth explaining why things are done the way they are done, but this should help you get up and running with your first application pretty quickly so that you too can clog the App Store with useless superfluous apps (kidding… just kidding).

In the next installment of this Android series, you'll learn how to incorporate GPS and Google Maps into your Android application, so your users can see where they are, all the time.

Apple announced this morning via a posting on the front page of its iPhone developer site that it has decided to discontinue the non-disclosure agreement preventing developers from discussing iPhone programming.