21. What Is The Mobile Application Development All About?
In the last two years, a lot of innovation has come in the mobile computing world. Apple has launched very innovative mobile phone, iphone and ipad along with app store. Google launched Android in Nov 2007. Blackberry released SDK and app world. Microsoft has come up with phone 7 framework. Almost every type of mobile can be programmed using J2ME. Making applications for all these devices is Mobile application development.
22. What Is The Demand Of Mobile Application Developers?
Desktop based IT application is present but the mobile is future. All the applications that were madeto work only on desk top are being ported to mobile. In the coming 10 years, desktops will be replaced completely with mobile, and then all the applications will be designed mainly for mobile. The demand for mobile based trained engineers are increasing every year. Now after the launch of ipad by Apple, it will be even more. Therefore; the gextgen technology will be nothing else than mobile. The demand is expected to grow 70 folds in the coming 4 years.
23. What Is The Risk In Blocking The Main Thread When Performing A Lengthy operation Such As Web Access Or Heavy Computation?
Application_Not_Responding exception will be thrown which will crash and restart the application.
24. What Is A Dalvik ?
The name of Androids virtual machine. The Dalvik VM is an interpreter-only virtual machine that executes files in the Dalvik Executable (.dex) format, a format that is optimized for efficient storage and memory-mappable execution. The virtual machine is register-based, and it can run classes compiled by a Java language compiler that have been transformed into its native format using the included ?dx? tool. The VM runs on top of Posix-compliant operating systems, which it relies on for underlying functionality (such as threading and low level memory management). The Dalvik core class library is intended to provide a familiar development base for those used to programming with Java Standard Edition, but it is geared specifically to the needs of a small mobile device.
25. What Features Are In A Release?
Generally, it’s very difficult to detail them, unless there is a significant new feature (in which case, that will be very well advertised!). Usually it’s minor speed improvements, bug fixes etc… and sometimes, new bugs are introduced (so bear that in mind).
26. When Will It Be Available In A Rom?
No time soon. Folks are working on it, but you’ll need a lot of patience before it (if ever) arrives.
27. I Keep Hearing ‘popping/clicking’ Sounds From The Speaker?
This is a known annoyance on some devices, believed to be related to power management switching the speaker on and off (not confirmed), it actually seems worse in silent mode (ironically). If you experience this, you’re not alone… most users do. When a fix is ready, it will be announced here.
28. How Much Revenue Share Does The Developer Get?
The developer gets 70% revenue generated from each Android application purchase while the rest is used for settlement charges. Google doesn’t take a dime out of this.
29. Explain Seapine Software?
Seapine’s software development and testing tools streamline your development process, saving you significant time and money. Enjoy feature-rich tools that are flexible enough to work in any software development environment. With Seapine integrated tools, every step in the developmentprocess feeds critical information into the next step, letting you focus on developing high quality software in less time.
30. Why Is List View Not Recommended To Have Active Components?
Clicking on the active text box will pop up the software keyboard but this will resize the list, removing focus from the clicked element.