Mobile advertisement: Apple and Android at the same level in the USA

From the Italin blog Mobileblog: A research of the mobile advertising firm MillenialMedia (that has monitored the click on the optimized banner for the mobile) says that Android has reached Apple at the top of the ranking of the OS managing the largest part of the advertisement market.

Apple percentage drops from 56% to 37%, same percentage of Android. Thrid place for RIM with the Blackberry platform. Very far the rest of the operating system (around the 2%)

Blackberry: place a field at the bottom of a screen

When you need to place a field at the bottom of your application screen you can use the setStatus method in the Screen object.
That will keep your field anchored at the bottom even if the rest of the screen is scrolling.

See this question on Stackoverflow

GetJar AppIt! service to increase your application downloads

GetJar blog entry claims (via a NY Times article) the Photobucket application increased its download rate 2500% using the AppIt! service which enables application developers to associate one easy and short link to their applications whatever the platform be. The link can be used to share applications across the social networks.

It's up to GetJar platfrom recognize the platform coming for the download and serve it with the right package. Soon a button similar the existent "Share on Facebook" or "Retweet on Twitter" will be provided by GetJar: "AppIt on Getjar" to share applicatin across platforms, countries and handsets.

Looking for Mobile developers

A mobile start-up company based in Verona (north of Italy) is looking for developers (both to join the company or freelance)

More information writing to: gerdavax@tiscali.it

Navigate the Blackberry screen stack

You need sometimes to know which screens are in the screens stack of your Blackberry application maybe because you want to remove all the screen below a specific screen because they are not needed anymore.

First of all you can get the active screen using the instruction:

UiApplication.getUiApplication.getActiveScreen();

Once you have the screen object you can call on it the method:

getScreenBelow()

you will get the screen object below. Generally you can move along the stack using also the method

getScreenAbove()

used together with the previous getScreenBelow method.

Problem with HTC Desire and ADB driver? The solution is here.

If you try to connect your HTC Desire to your PC via USB having already installed the ADB driver for Android SDK, you will see that the driver is not working.

To fix the problem you need to install the USB driver coming with the HTC Sync (you can download here).

Thanks to James Giang for the tip.

Generate a tone with Android

It is pretty easy play a simple tone (a beep) using Android. Two lines of code are enough:

ToneGenerator toneGen = new ToneGenerator(AudioManager.STREAM_SYSTEM, 50);
toneGen.startTone(ToneGenerator.TONE_PROP_BEEP);