Re: [The Java Posse] Which database for Android?

2010-04-19 Thread Moandji Ezana
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: I suppose Derby works fine with Android - but are there other choices? Can you really use a relational DB other than the built-in SQLite? Moandji -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[The Java Posse] Re: Which database for Android?

2010-04-19 Thread Casper Bang
Hi Fabrizio, It sounds like you are not aware that SQLite is build right into Android. There's even a sqlite3 tool in the SDK for this purpose. Good tutorials are hard to come by, but it's covered quite well in the material from CommonsWare (version 1.0 should now be under creative commons if you

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Which database for Android?

2010-04-19 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/19/10 09:02 , Casper Bang wrote: Hi Fabrizio, It sounds like you are not aware that SQLite is build right into Android. There's even a sqlite3 tool in the SDK for this purpose. Good tutorials are hard to come by, but it's covered quite well

[The Java Posse] Re: Which database for Android?

2010-04-19 Thread Casper Bang
If I were you I would try to use the build in stuff, simply to minimize overhead/resource-consumption on the device. For nosql, you can use SharedPreferences which works much like a classic key-value store, although not sure about how this scales - probably not as well as SQLite. The great thing

[The Java Posse] The Great Web Framework Shootout 2010

2010-04-19 Thread Serge Boulay
podcast is now available is anyone is interested. Speakers in this shootout include, in no particular order: - Chris Richardson of Cloud Foundry/SpringSource/VMware - Dan Allen and Lincoln Baxter III of JBoss, a division of RedHat - Alex Payne of Twitter - David Black of Cyrus -

[The Java Posse] Re: OT: Oracle should buy Palm

2010-04-19 Thread ebresie
iPhone leads smartphone developer battle; Java ME still leads overall http://about.datamonitor.com/media/archives/4083 I've still wondered why more JavaME developers have not picked up on the open sourced version of JavaME ( see https://phoneme.dev.java.net/ ) and other related projects (

[The Java Posse] Flash for Mobile delayed again

2010-04-19 Thread Karsten Silz
Hi, All of you who can't wait to see Flash ads on their mobile phones - you have to wait a couple of months longer: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1601677/flash-android-webos-delayed But seriously, I don't envy Adobe - getting Flash player to perform well on Android, Blackberry and

RE: [The Java Posse] Flash for Mobile delayed again

2010-04-19 Thread James Ward
I can't speak about ship dates but I did record some videos of FP 10.1 performance on Android: http://www.jamesward.com/2010/02/21/flex-performance-on-mobile-devices/ Overall performance is pretty impressive. They done a lot of work in the Tamarin VM to optimize how and when JITing happens.

[The Java Posse] Re: OT: Oracle should buy Palm

2010-04-19 Thread RogerV
Making money selling iphone/itouch/ipad apps is the geek equivalent to winning the lottery. Most developers are not even going to break even on their efforts expended. Others will make enough to buy their lunch each week. A few folks out of 200,000 apps will make it big. Apple does well by