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Curious Creature
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Curious Creature is a personal blog at curious-creature.org about programming and design. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Romain Guy's Curious Creature blog for Android development topics, including Java and C performance on the Nexus 5, RenderScript, and UI responsiveness. One comment lists it among Android developer blogs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Practical notes on Android graphics, Java UI engineering, and measurable interface performance.
Most-linked posts?
- /category/android/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-22
What Hacker News says?
While I'm sure Dalvik contributes, Android has had many more serious issues in terms of user responsiveness. * Android devices have very laggy touch responsiveness in general, while this is something Apple has spent considerable effort optimizing [1] * Only in recent revisions (Project Butter [2]) has Android made significant improvements to its general UI lag/smoothness issues. At various times, Google employees ha…
Comment linking /2012/12/01/android-performance-case-study/
on “A performance comparison between Java and C on the Nexus 5”Submitted Android Performance Case Study as a story · 269 points
HN discussionI haven't been following this very closely, but Guy Romain has mentioned a language called "RenderScript" in a presentation or two. RenderScript, to my understanding, is a sort of C-like language that the Android team intends to use to fill the gap between Java development and NDK development, enabling less painful game dev. I'm not too familiar with it, so here's a few links: Here's a post which attempts to walk th…
Comment linking /2010/01/07/nexus-one-live-wallpapers/
on “Sony Ericsson to introduce Android 3.0 gaming platform & PSP Go-like smartphone”Submitted Android Performance in Practice as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAs an Android developer who has recently been doing some iPhone work, I don't know any resources directly for iOS developers but these are some areas that I think you should look into: 1) The activity life cycle model.[0] This is something that a lot of people moving over to Android struggle with for some reason. A strong understanding of this really helps. 2) Layout xml. In my opinion Layouts are a weak point for e…
Comment linking /category/android/
on “Ask HN: Resources for iOS programmer to learn Android”Submitted Android SDK Screenshot direct to layered Photoshop PSD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRomain Guy - http://www.curious-creature.org/category/android/ Tim Bray - http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Technology/Android/ Cyril Mottier - http://android.cyrilmottier.com/ CommonsWare (probably the top StackOverflow Android answerer) - http://commonsware.com/blog/ Android Developer Experts - https://developers.google.com/experts/members/
Comment linking /category/android/
on “Ask HN: Android dev blogs?”
