This weekend was glorious, sunny and warm(hot even?) though I spent most of it in front of my laptop coding up an android app. Its not a particularly useful app but it was fairly interesting. It uses the Google Maps API and Cordova. This is actually part of an assignment for university. Its a hybrid app, running HTML5 and javascript plus some native plugins to access hardware specific functionality like location services.  Cordova is actually pretty cool, I’ve never been a fan of JavaScript but there is no denying that its pretty hard to avoid using it when writing a web app or in this case an hybrid android app.

It look me the entire weekend to just load a map. No kidding. The whole of Saturday was dedicated to trial and error. Then, I started again from scratch and it worked. Can you believe it took me that long to do that!

But do do this I had to get a physical android device and the cordova google maps plugin doesn't work in the browser. So I bought myself a 2nd hand Sony Xperia M for £52. What a awesome little phone, I’m very impressed with it. My iphone 4S is actually quite nervous that I’m so impressed with it.

This is as far as I got. Not far – its just an app with custom markers on a map but its the concepts the count – that’s a phrase I’ve just abused.

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Lets see what else I can do moving forward…