Tips for doing a presentation on the Android SDK
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
- Warm up the emulator and install all your required apps well before you are required to start. The emulator takes a while to startup, and can sometimes get stuck on the Cylon animation, which (for me at least) seems to require a reboot to put right. Don’t risk doing this messing around when you have 50 people already seated and waiting for you to start.
- Do not try and use the maps or browser feature if you have an intermittent internet connection (i.e. a conference Wi-Fi). There is a bug in the current release which means that no Google service will be able to achieve a network connection if it couldn’t find one on startup. If you encounter this bug, consider restarting the emulator (see above)
- Demo Snowball. At least it will keep working even after you’ve lost connectivity.
Tips for doing a presentation on the iPhone SDK
- Read those SDK terms and conditions again and you will find that you’ve signed a non-disclosure agreement with Apple“all information disclosed by Apple to you that relates to Apple’s products, designs, business plans, business opportunities, finances, research, development, know-how, personnel, or third-party confidential information” as “Confidential Information” — excluding specific information that is available elsewhere. You must agree not to “disclose, publish, or disseminate” any of the aforementioned Confidential Information, and not to use it “in any way, including, without limitation, for your own or any third party’s benefit without the prior written approval of an authorized representative of Apple in each instance.”
This effectively means you’ve signed away your right to talk about iPhone when you signed on to Apples developer program.
- Maybe you’ve developing for the wrong platform?
Anybody got any more tips while we are at it?
