Tips for Android Tablet Development
Last month the British Android community gathered together (with a sizable international presence, including the Bangalore Android Group) for Droidcon UK, a huge conference in the Islington Design Centre to discuss all things Android.
Whilst a full breakdown of the two days of talks, barcamp and democamp is still forthcoming, I thought that one thread that ran through the whole conference, as well as the Labs hosted by Google the day before, was worth exploring separately.
Two days at Over the Air 2011
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to travel to the beautiful Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes for an event called Over The Air, a community-run conference for mobile development featuring an overnight hack-a-thon.
Using HTML5 Boilerplate
Over the course of a number of small sites, I've been experimenting with a number of templates and tools to aid the development process. I might write about some of these at a later date; but most recently I've used the HTML5 Boilerplate. This template provides a number a of ready-made optimisations and tweaks to help standardise your site's rendering cross-browser.