If, like me, you've been wondering why the audio support in Android was so poor, you'll be pleased to hear that Android 1.5 (Cupcake) addresses some of the issues.
I'll write a more in-depth post once I've gone through some real world examples, but one thing which I'm currently reading up on is the in-built MIDI support.
Rather than just stick a bog-standard MIDI engine in Android, the Google engineers have chosen to include a JET playback engine, which allows musical synchronisation of clips and seamless playback. It's mainly tailored towards game playing as it allows you to script the clips about to played back to tie in with the gameplay, but I'm already thinking up some cool musical ideas for it.
Have a read of the documentation on Android.com, at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/jet/jetcreator_manual.html
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Friday, 1 May 2009
iPhone 3.0 Features
After a mammoth 2.14Gb download, the iPhone 3.0 SDK beta finally landed on my Mac.
I'm not taking any chances installing it on my iPhone yet, but there didn't seem to be any problem running the simulator in 3.0 alongside 2.2.1.
On the surface, things seem like business as usual. The one major thing you notice is the new Search function of the homepage.
You now get a little magnifying glass icon on the main screen:
Swiping the screen left gives you a search box. Weirdly, this only seems to search the installed applications. I had assumed that it would be similar to the search widget on Android, whereby you can search Google straight from your homescreen. Certainly this doesn't seem to be the case for the simulator anyway, we'll see when I get it running on a phone.
With over 1000 new API's there are clearly some major new things going on with iPhone 3.0. To get you ready for the change, Apple have created some good documentation about ensuring backwards and forwards compatability with your apps. Log into the iPhone developer center and check them out.
I'm not taking any chances installing it on my iPhone yet, but there didn't seem to be any problem running the simulator in 3.0 alongside 2.2.1.
On the surface, things seem like business as usual. The one major thing you notice is the new Search function of the homepage.
You now get a little magnifying glass icon on the main screen:
Swiping the screen left gives you a search box. Weirdly, this only seems to search the installed applications. I had assumed that it would be similar to the search widget on Android, whereby you can search Google straight from your homescreen. Certainly this doesn't seem to be the case for the simulator anyway, we'll see when I get it running on a phone.
With over 1000 new API's there are clearly some major new things going on with iPhone 3.0. To get you ready for the change, Apple have created some good documentation about ensuring backwards and forwards compatability with your apps. Log into the iPhone developer center and check them out.
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