Blackberry: Animated Part 2
In my last post, I wrote about the lack of animation API provided in the Blackberry SDK. Sure, OS 6.0 provides some means for doing animations, and OS 5.0 added an API for screen transition animation. But, that’s not enough for developers targeting devices running earlier OS versions. According to some numbers I dug up, there are still quite a few users running OS 4.6. So, the fact that OS fragmentation exists can’t be ignored. Maybe, at some point in the future when all Blackberry users are running OS 6.0 and up, animated UIs will be a lot easier to create and maintain. But, until then, a lot of the work is left up to the developer.
Blackberry: Animated
After using a few Blackberry applications, I noticed that many (if not all) of the them lack anything more than a very basic UI. So, I decided to take a peek and figure out why.
SyncMyPix 0.12
Android 2.x users, your long, lost friend, SyncMyPix is back! Version 0.12 has just landed in the Android Market. It’s been quite a long time since its been available there for anybody but Android 1.5 and 1.6 users. So, here’s a quick summary of everything that’s new since it was removed.
- Fixed Android 2.x bug preventing manual contact linking
- Prevent read-only contacts from being synced / manually linked (2.x)
- Added ‘Allow Google Sync’ option (always on for 2.x, toggle for 1.x)
- Added some more informative error messages
- Fixed some force closures
- Fixed “fatal error” during sync when social network friend / contact is blank
- Added version number to about dialog
- Fixed exception when viewing results screen
- Quick fix for “Session Invalid” error - Facebook API format changed for Users.GetLoggedInUser method
- Fixed Results screen scrolling bug where pictures would not load for some friends
- Fixed bug where manual picture cropping would not pull from Facebook