Today I log into Play to check on my apps. I am greeted by an updated design, twice as slow as the previous one, but hey, at least it’s material design now and I can waste some additional time on…
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Can someone explain to me why we are still required to sign our Android apps?
With Android O, we are well into the second half of the alphabet (no pun intended) and the Android packagemanager still requires apps to be signed. Why exactly?!
Answering support mail is fun…
There are tons of reasons, why Raccoon might not find an app (or produce any search results to begin with). Today, I learned of a new one: user tried to mimic a Gingerbread device (I’m not happy with little “details”…
Google really doesn’t want paid apps on Play, do they?
I just had this magnificent idea: why not put an app on Play that serves as a license key for Raccoon? Once you download that app via Raccoon, it automatically unlocks the premium features. No need to manually mess around…
Puh, close one – thought my good old Nexus 7 had finally died.
That moment when you press the power button… and nothing happens. Dead battery? Unlikely, the tablet had been hooked up to the charger all day. Crashed? Maybe, but if so, the software locked up completely. I can’t even connect via…
Maybe Android would be a less shitty ecosystem if we stopped giving smartphones to children?
Largely ignored fact #1: making an app drives every developer into debt. Time is money and anything more substantial than a fart generator requires an up front investment of several months of (full time) work. Offering the end result (literally)…
“Pssst! You can pay to remove ads from my app” *facepalm* #fail
Sometimes, I really wonder what app developers are thinking (if at all), when offering to remove ads through in-app-purchases.
I really don’t appreciate social network invitation spam!
If there’s something specific you need from me, just send me an email. If you can figure out my emailaddress, you can probably figure out how to use an email client as well. I have absolutely no interest in accepting…
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About Google, Udacity and Bertelsmann handing out 10,000 scholarships in the EU
Seems like developers are either loosing interest in the Android platform, or someone thinks they are too expensive and need a bit more competition. I’m not going to speculate further on why Google sees a need to provide 10k scholarships,…
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Artifex Mundi on Humble Bundle (go get it)
Time to give Humble Bundle a second chance after that Broken Sword fiasco (still pissed about that). My expectations for the Artifex Mundi bundle weren’t to high to begin with. After all, a whopping 10 titles from just one developer…
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