Of lawns and monitors

[Duugu]

Originally Posted by SDPhantom Probably because we all sit at our computers all day long. It's practically become our lifestyle. I need a new job that makes use of my skills too. It's really stressful working with my parents at their shop. Sadly, I live in a place out in the middle of nowhere where there aren't any tech jobs within 100 miles.

I've started developing smartphone/tablet gaming apps a few month ago. As it turned out this is ridiculously easy process nowadays using frameworks and tools like Cordova, Unity, or even Lua with Corona. Hope I'll make some money out of it without having to leave my home office.

[SDPhantom]

I jumped head first into the official Android SDK a while ago. Supposedly, all the stock code uses Java and I fidgeted around with it a little. I might check out Corona later for the Lua engine.

[Duugu]

Originally Posted by SDPhantom I jumped head first into the official Android SDK a while ago. Supposedly, all the stock code uses Java and I fidgeted around with it a little. I might check out Corona later for the Lua engine.

That's so true. Developing native Android apps defintely is a full time job. And the SKD is a big bad monster. Plus I hate Java almost as much as Objective-C.
Using a framework is much easyer. And it provides the option to develop cross platform apps using a single code base.

[Tonyleila]

[quote=Tonyleila]

Originally Posted by Duugu I don't know. Aren't there already thousands of keyboard apps out there?

There are thousands of keyboard "skins" for android and 3 apps for iPhone/iPad. But basicly its only Fleksy, Swype and SwiftKey while the last two have the same operating concept of wipeing over the keys to write and Fleksy is basically a normal keyboard without spacings between the keys and its missing umlauts...
I'll send you a PM.

[humfras]

Originally Posted by Tonyleila There are thousands of keyboard "skins" for android and 3 apps for iPhone/iPad. But basicly its only Fleksy, Swype and SwiftKey while the last two have the same operating concept of wipeing over the keys to write and Fleksy is basically a normal keyboard without spacings between the keys and its missing umlauts... I'll send you a PM.

Viel Spaß dabei, Ulf.

Und unterhaltet euch mal auf deutsch, da macht Tobi weniger Fehler

[Tonyleila]

Originally Posted by humfras Viel Spaß dabei, Ulf. Und unterhaltet euch mal auf deutsch, da macht Tobi weniger Fehler

Ach man jetzt hab ichs ihm schon auf Englisch zusammengefasst
Wo bleibt hier die Länderflagge neben den Profilbildern...

[Rilgamon]

Originally Posted by Tonyleila Wo bleibt hier die Länderflagge neben den Profilbildern...

Wir sind doch alle Netzbürger

[Phanx]

Originally Posted by Tonyleila Wo bleibt hier die Länderflagge neben den Profilbildern...

Aber wie würde ich mich mit dem Spiel "den Deutscher entdecken" unterhalten?

[Phanx]

Originally Posted by Tonyleila But basicly its only Fleksy, Swype and SwiftKey ...

I use Swype, because I've gotten used to certain things about how it works (mostly regarding how it handles punctuation) but the lack of skinning options is annoying (especially since all of the built-in skins have a pretty strong Android 2.x aesthetic and look quite dated and "busy") and I have to admit that even the swiping algorithm it uses has fallen way behind SwiftKey and even the default Android keyboard (it's way worse at figuring out what word I meant if I didn't precisely hit each letter). I should really just take the plunge and force myself to use something else until I get used to it... though I don't really want to use SwiftKey either because it sucks for using punctuation, and only has paid skins, no API for third-party skins.