My experience with Android Studio

I love to learn or try a new thing everyday. Yesterday, I downloaded Android Studio and installed on both Mac OS/X Lion 10.7  and Ubuntu 13.04 laptop. Here is the screenshot of Android Studio my MacBook Pro.

I'm still figuring out how to fix this error: "emulator: ERROR: unknown skin name 'WXGA720'" when  attempt to load Android Virtual Device without using Eclipse Juno to launch the AVD first.

For Ubuntu 13.04, I must using Oracle Java Development Kit instead of OpenJDK to run Android Studio. With Eclipse IDE, I can use OpenJDK. Here is the screenshot when I make a new Android project imported from my GitHub account:

I also trying to install Android Studio on Microsoft Windows. To save time, you need to read carefully the note on http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

Since this is a preview release, I don't expect much. I hope Google will make Android Studio tool better.

Available for Hire

A developer with 25 years experience in software development, mostly with small start up companies, available for hire. I love to have an opportunity to work full-time on:

1. Mobile application development using Android. 
2. Web application development using Open Sources technology: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS ... 
3. Web application development using Microsoft technology: Classic ASP 3.0, ASP.NET, C#, IIS 7, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2008R2

Windows Phone 7

Take a day off to attend Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Unleashed workshop. This is a hand on work shop, no marketing stuffs. Although I'm working on Android and gradually moving toward the Open Source and Linux, I love to keep up my current skills in Microsoft Windows technology.

Prior to the workshop, I needed to download and installed Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta. Honest to say, WP7 is much better than previous version Windows Mobile. The tool used to develop for Windows Phone is much easier than the tool used to develop Android. For Android, I must downloaded and installed Java SDK, Android SDK, Eclipse JSEE separately. Manually configured Android Virtual Device (AVD). However, for Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, it just one click. Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone is much better than Eclipse.

There were four sessions for this work shop. When I worked on the first lab, Windows Phone Emulator could not load on virtual machine running Windows Vista. Thus, I must switched back to my Windows 7 partition. Moved on to lab number two, the Click event handler for the Search button did not work. Hmmm, I followed step by step as in lab document. I also had a chance to take a look on Windows Phone 7 handset. The LG Windows Phone 7 was bigger and thicker than my LG Android. The speakers provided useful information regarding to WP7.

I don't know WP7 is success in the future or not. At least right now, it has my attention. It's competitive with Android and iPhone.