I have updated my PubCrawler web app to use HTML5 offline caching. This means that saved crawls can be accessed even when there is no network connection. However, the Google Maps imagery will not load unless it is in the browser’s cache. Also creating a new crawl does not work offline as it’s a bit [...]
Yesterday I received a free Nexus One from Google as part of their Android Developer Seeding Program. Reader Widget Free qualified for this so I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who downloaded, rated and provided feedback on it. It has been downloaded over 22000 times. Also thanks to those who [...]
They have just announced some updates to the Google Maps API V3. This seems to have fixed an issue where the plus and minus buttons in the info window for each pub in PubCrawler were difficult to press on Android 2.x devices. I didn’t need to do any code changes for this which is always [...]
Good old PubCrawler. I have somewhat neglected my duties in maintaining this web app. However, I recently completed the migration to Google Maps API V3 for it. Advantages of this include: Automatic display of controls based on device. For example zoom buttons are displayed on Android devices but not on the iPhone (because it has [...]
I had a good day at the Android Developer Lab. It was pretty freeform with a short presentation, lunch and then diving right into device testing. We got our hands on: Motorola Droid HTC Tattoo LG Eve Samsung Behold II I concentrated on the Tattoo and Droid because of their non-standard screen resolutions. The Reader [...]
I have installed the official Android 1.6 (aka Donut) ADP build on my G1. I’ve done some initial testing and found that both Reader Widget Small and Reader Widget Pro work on it. I have also uploaded screen shots for both to the market (only visible in the 1.6 version of the market). PubCrawler still [...]
I have noticed something not mentioned much elsewhere when testing the PubCrawler on various devices. It is how much screen space is devoted to a web page. This is not a simply dependent on screen size as these screenshots show: iPod Touch/iPhone 3.0 HTC Dream/T-mobile G1 Android 1.5 HTC Hero All the devices have the [...]
Just got my shiny new HTC Hero today. First impressions are good. Both PubCrawler and the Reader Widgets are working fine. If I’m not too busy later I will post a mini review. Reader Widget Pro should be ready this weekend.
I’m using Firefox 3.5 at home and its great. It adds HTML5 support so it should work with PubCrawler. However, whilst the geolocation functionality works well the local storage does not, so crawls cannot be saved. This is due to the local storage support being of a different type to the WebKit browsers like Safari [...]
I’ve been neglecting the PubCrawler a bit recently because of my current widget fetish. I made one quick change to it last night though. It now has HTML5 geolocation for browsers that support it. I tested it in Firefox 3.5 beta 4 which is a bit flakey when it comes to the geolocation stuff even [...]
