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Android is Google’s answer to the iPhone and at the very least, has advantages in terms of multitasking, running apps in the background and others. Google’s CEO is getting front page coverage commenting on the coming Google/iPhone war.
This is a no frills, no nonsense, code centric run through the guts of application development on Google’s Mobile OS. It focuses on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work.
Work Experience:
9/06 - Current Gravity Mobile San Francisco CA
Lead Software Engineer
• Technical lead for MLB.com Gameday and Gameday Audio
• Contributing Engineer, AT&T Pandora Mobile project
• Contributing Engineer, AT&T Song ID project
• Contributing Engineer, VZW Music ID project
4/05 - Current Technical Writer San Francisco CA
Mobile systems technical author
• Author and editor of Zen and the Art of Debugging
• Co-Author of Playing Multimedia Using BREW's IMedia API
• Two more articles to be released on DevX.com within the month.
9/03 – 9/06 Rocket Mobile Los Gatos CA
Software Engineer – Mobile Devices
• Technical lead, multimedia messaging for Motorola V325, V3c RAZR, KRZR mobile phones
o Designed and implemented Message Playback and Rendering System for picture messages
o Redesigned and upgraded in-house database for Picture and Text Messages
o Maintained and upgraded the packaging and transport system for Picture and Text Messages
o Upgraded, optimized and maintained Multi Media Messaging WAP codecs
o Successfully passed Verizon’s Interoperability Tests for eight mobile handsets
o Over 10,000,000 units shipped by end of 2006
• Authored, maintained, and upgraded over 30,000 lines of production-quality C code
• MMS specification manager, direct upgrade path for MMS software
• Rearchitected and refactored Rocket Mobile’s licensed application framework
o Packaging the software for license to major handset OEM
• Frequent idea submittals to CEO incited internal "Mobile Application Idea Contest"
o As a result, a channel of communication has opened at R.M. between executives and developers that have resulted in new application development
• Authored a real-time Global-Positioning-System prototype application for mobile devices
• Conceived of, successfully pitched, and wrote a new embedded application for reading RSS
4/01 – 7/03 Technologies for Learning & Creativity Lyme NH
Consultant
• Created a variety of File-maker Pro Databases
• Wrote tools to help doctors and educators diagnose child development disabilities
Professional Skills
Advanced: BREW, C, CDMA MMS, WAP, SMIL, Dev. Methodology for small platforms
Intermediate: Assembly, Visual Prolog, Scheme, Java, J2ME, C++, Game Theory
OS: Windows (XP, 2000, NT, 98), Mac OS (X and 9), Solaris Unix, Linux
Tools: Visual Studio, SVN, CVS, Beyond Compare, Source Insight, Test Track Pro, BREW debugging tools, Lauderbauch’s Trace32
Attributes:
• Fast learner, experienced working in a collaborative environment
• Self reliant, motivated after three years at a start-up
• Teaching skills and leadership ability gleaned from instructing and learning martial arts
Education
9/99 – 5/03 Skidmore College Saratoga Springs NY
Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Philosophy
Activities and Personal Interests
09/99 - Current Skidmore Martial Arts Club Saratoga Springs NY
President and Instructor
• Grew the club from a single school with 5 students, to a multi school club with over 40 students
• Currently teaching a weekly class in San Francisco
Boy Scouts
Eagle Scout
• over 10 years of Scouting
Other interests:
• guitar, mountain biking, DJing, law, eastern and western philosophy
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Android Essentials (Books for Professionals by Professionals) (Paperback)
This book could have been decent, but instead it's just outdated. Too many things have changed in the SDK. I recommend waiting either for an updated version of this book, or a different book covering 0.9 beta, or better yet, 1.0.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A fair starting point for the beginning Android developer,
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This review is from: Android Essentials (Books for Professionals by Professionals) (Paperback)
TagGerr@utahcon.com wrote: Apress's firstPress books are written as short and succinct as possible to engage the reader and provide them a starting point in a given technology. They are intented to be released and read as close to the technology release as possible to gain the maxiumum experience in the shortest amount of time. Unfortunately in some cases, this rapid-release structure doesn't pan out so well, which is a flaw that this book suffers from. Thankfully this flaw does not render the book completely useless.
From the beginning of Android Essentials, it's clear that Chris Haseman is passionate about mobile development and very excited about Android and its possibilities. He provides clear instructions and walks the reader through each part of an Android application, as well as providing hints and tricks within the Eclipse environment to make Android development even easier. While it's not an instuction book on how to write Java, as Chris points out early on, most developers with a basic understanding of the language should be able to power their way through the examples and concepts. Chris doesn't hold the readers hand through Java structure or development, but he progresses at a comfortable pace that should allow for any referential reading that may be necessary. The example code is where the reader may experience the most frustration. All code in the book was written using the M5-RC15 version of the Android SDK, which is two steps below the current release, 1.0-R2. While it may still be possible to run the M5 version of the SDK in a currect Eclipse installation, it is much easier and recommended to use the latest release so that any applications developed will work with current handsets. This means that only the first project in the book will actually build and launch correctly and all the others require small to moderately large adjustments. Anything from `add a line here and change that line there' to `completely re-build this function from scratch' is needed to get each example running. From a learning standpoint, this is where the book doesn't hold up well. It can be difficult at best to find the correct solution, and even a web search may only yield a few hand-made solutions with the tag `your mileage may vary'. Interestingly, this is can also be a saving factor for this book. Not everyone prefers to read a book where all the answers are laid out and available for download. Part of the enjoyment of development is knowing that you have created something for a purpose, and using this book's code examples and the provided instruction is a great launching pad to discover your own way to build the same applications. So while it may take some extra time to make the examples work, the personal effort will usually leave a more lasting impression than just retyping the code into your favorite editor and verifying that the application does what it should. Overall, I think that Android Essentials is a fair starting point for the beginning Android developer. For a serious developer, it's a good book for idea reference, and for a beginner it's a good start to see what is possible with Android. My final recommendation would be to wait and hope for an updated release of this book, or at least the code it contains. While I do enjoy discovering my own way through a particular application, more reliable starting code would have allowed me to spend more time developing my own applications instead of repairing another developer's.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Yep, outdated,
By Andrew M.A (Broomfield, CO United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Android Essentials (Books for Professionals by Professionals) (Paperback)
Just re-iterating comments from other readers...this book is outdated. Most of the code samples don't work and by extension the book is out of sync with the 1.0 SDK.
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