Archive for the "Android" Category

jMdns and Android 4.0

I wanted to post a quick note just in case anyone else runs into this issue or I forget it later on. jMdns is a great java library to provide zeroconf/bonjour capabilities to your Android application.  I was successfully using this in a project up until Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” aka ICS, once Android [...]

snctlnSoftware is Back!

snctlnSoftware is Back! The truth is that I never really went anywhere.  I have been staying busy with Android development and have more or less learned what I need to know for iPhone development. I maintain a full time job as a Mobile Software Engineer at a company where I have been employed either full time [...]

WordWrench Full is Free Today on Amazon

The snctlnSoftware Android game “WordWrench Full” is free today from the Amazon Appstore for Android.

So many things

So I got out of the habit of blogging… every few days I have an idea of something to write about, but I never end up writing about it.  So here is a quick post to try and get back in the habit. I develop games and applications in my spare time, when I release [...]

Continued Success

Well it has been a while since I posted but thought I would do another self serving post. BreakTheBlocks Lite continues to be my most successful Android application.  Last month it passed the 2 million download mark and this morning I noticed that not only is the download count up to 2.3 million but the [...]

Quick Post

It has been a few months since I have updated this page, life has been busy and I haven’t been doing too much work with Android.  But I did notice something that I thought was interesting, this morning when I logged into my android developer console to check on my download numbers and sales I [...]

The Benefits of an Open Market

The Android Market is an Open Market, at least in the sense that anyone can publish apps to the market after paying their $25 registration fee. Once a publisher has joined the market they can upload apps that are available to users within 5 minutes.  This is great when compared to the process of that [...]

Over 2 millions downloads :)

Just a quick update, According to the download numbers on my Android Developers Console the total download count between the 11 apps that I have published on the Android Market now total 2015762 downloads.  BreakTheBlocks Lite leads the pack with 1.3 million downloads and PingPong Lite is the runner up with nearly 600k downloads. 2 [...]

Square Moto…

So BGR and Gizmodo picked up on a leak over at DroidDog of the above picture.  The original post at DroidDog asks “Is the square Motowhat for real?”. As a developer of Android games here is my reaction. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO! Looks like there is another screen resolution that I am going [...]

iPhone 4.0

This isn’t really a post about Android, it is really just a mini rant about some of my opinions on a few of Apples announcements yesterday. So the majority of people that might actually read this blog posting already know this, but yesterday Apple held a press conference announcing some of the upcoming features offered [...]