Get your app ready for the (HTC) One with XXHDPI

On Feb 19, 2013, HTC announced their new flagship phone, HTC ONE, http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-one/#overview.

This device has a 4.7 inch display with full HD 1080p, 468 PPI (pixel per inch). The resolution of the screen/display falls in the range of XXHDPI defined by Google Android standard.

The phone would be carried by most of carriers around the world. From the announcement, and the official specs posted http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-one/#specs, and comments from the analysts, reporters and mobile gadget enthusiasts, the phone would be leading the mobile device market for this year. Other OEMs need some time to find out how to match the specs of this device, specifically the features of Camera (UltraPixel), Zoe (Gallery), BOOM (sound), BlinkFeed (social media), Sense TV (IR control), the gorges design and manufacturing processes to produce the product.

BOOM Sound

BlinkFeed Social Media

Zoe - Living Photo Gallery

Currently HTC is offering the special promotions, customers can get at least $100 cash back or trade in value of customer's current phone. Please check details at http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-one/#offers.

TV Guide and IR Remote Control

Gorges Design

Sense Voice - Clearer Voice Than Ever

Please get your apps ready for the ONE. See my previous post about handling XXHDPI for your app, http://programmingtolive.blogspot.com/2012/12/handle-xxhdpi-in-your-apps.html

Enjoy the ONE, and see what you can bring to life with this smart phone.

My old Nexus 7 got 4.2.2 update

While reading the tech news, I crossed over several posts about the latest update of Android 4.2.2 from Google, then I checked my old Nexus 7. And yeah, there is a notification about the update, asking me to install it or not, and I clicked it yes. Now the tablet is installing the update. From my experiences in the past, it will take several minutes to complete it. This time it is around 1 to 2 minutes. Now the device is rebooting, I like the boot up animation.

In the software info, the kernel is still in 3.1.0-g05b777c, built on Nov., 29, 2012. For more details of the update, please check PCMag blog at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415481,00.asp

Meanwhile, the SDK Tool 21.1 is also available for developer to download and install, for the release note please check http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/tools-notes.html, some bugs reported have been fixed, there are also some performance improvements.

Now it is almost 3 months away from annual Google I/O Conference, where the next major release of Android would be announced and available. Not sure which version number would be used. Last year before Google formally released the Jelly Bean, people were talking about the version number would be bumped to 5.0, and actually it was released as version 4.1, followed by minor releases of 4.1.1, 4.1.2, then 4.2, 4.2.1, and now 4.2.2. But definitely the code name would start with letter "K".