Monthly Archives: December 2009

Updated Rainy Days availablity in the market

I’m getting some negative comments on the fact that there’s no rainfall image data available yet for a lot of places in the world. I hope you all understand that I’m doing this for free, in my spare time and that getting new image data is not as easy as it seems. There’s a lot of work into making the data show perfect on the maps, while dealing with the challenges of a resource limited …

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Rainy Days 1.2 released

Rainy Days 1.2 released

Another release of Rainy Days has been published in the market! It took a little while longer than I anticipated, but I think it was worth the wait. In this version I’ve added rainfall data for a large part of Europe. When you pan and zoom the map the best image for your location will be selected. If you zoom out you’ll get the Europe rainfall data, and when you zoom in to The Netherlands …

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Preview: Snow and rain over Europe with Rainy Days

Preview: Snow and rain over Europe with Rainy Days

Here’s a sneak preview showing an update for Rainy Days that I’m working on. The most obvious feature is the Europe coverage, but I’ve included other improvements too, which I’ll blog about later.

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Help me fixing Rainy Days on Samsung Galaxy

I’m getting some reports that Rainy Days is not working right or at all on the Samsung Galaxy (Spica). Unfortunately I don’t have access to that phone, so I’m looking for peope who can help me to debug issues. If you have installed Rainy Days on your Galaxy and all is working fine, I’d like to know too! If Rainy Days is acting strange on your phone, please help me by sending a log of …

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Android talk at the Java Night

Next monday (dec 7th) I’ll be giving a 15 minute talk about Android architecture at the Capgemini Java Night. It will be a quick overview of Android, followed by a demo, for which I hacked up a quick presentation system so that I can show what’s going on on my Hero on the projector screen. Maybe I’ll see you there then :) Meanwhile I’m still working on the next Rainy Days version. I have been …

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