Android

Mostly every application needs some kind of "about" dialog. The about dialog shows basic informations about the application, its author and most likely some copyright information, the version information and so on.

For most of the Android developers out there, this might be an obvious task. I for myself want to use this example to help some beginners to show how this can be done. Since building a "static" about dialog is quite easy, I would like to extends this example to properly load the correct version information using the PackageManager.

By the end of this year my mobile contract expires and so I went on a journey for looking at what will be my next mobile phone. I currently have several candidates in pipe but let's talk about that later. My current favorite is a phone based on Android. I really like the features of the OS and it offers exactly what I am looking for: an open API for developing and playing around.

So I took a look at the Android SDK and got surprised that it is not supported to buil Android apps on a Power PC mac!? Too bad, since it would be pretty cool to use my iBook on vacation and more to develop android apps. But ok, so I have to be pleased with the linux version and hope that Google will think about this. However I think that support for PPC mac will never come, since all new Macs are Intel based.