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Benchmarking JSON vs XML Parsing in Android revisited

In my previous post on this I mentioned that parsing the Google Reader XML (Atom) feed with SAX was faster than parsing the JSON stream with json-simple. However, this is no longer the case thanks to jackson which is used in the Reader Widgets from version 2.3. On my HTC G1 running Android 1.6 (donut) [...]

Senseless Sense

Don’t get me wrong I love my HTC Hero and it’s Sense UI. I just don’t like the fact I have to wait longer for Android updates compared to other phones. I’m sure when Eclair comes to the Hero it will be great but I just can’t stand missing out on all the new apps [...]

Android 1.6: still no animated GIF support

I was just playing around with my newly updated G1 and realised that animated GIFs still do not animate on it. This has been an Android bug since day 1 in both the browser and ImageView. If you visit a web page containing an animated GIF all you will see is the first frame and [...]