(ai, aiide, artificial intelligence, starcraft)

Reading and thinking the last days about how to implement an intelligent system to play Starcraft, I had time to think about the implications of considering a system "intelligent". Nowadays, we can develop systems that are able to defeat human intelligence in certain genres. Some board games like chess, or most of the shooters are composed...

(Android, twitter)

Posting from Android into Twitter is one of the earliest stages of an Android developer. To keep full control over the posting process, we will use prefer primarily a pure OAuth post instead of dealing with Intents, so we can keep full control. So as a user, we could just think and conclude: the most typical way to authenticate is to pop up a...

(Android, c2dm, push)

As part of the training and pushing the boundaries in my department, we recently experimented with Push technologies and their application to mobile development. Whereas iPhone seems to support natively push messaging, we soon realize that Android was not perfect in this direction. Surprisingly they haven't yet considered that a native push...

(Android, google translate, language, tool, translations)

Since I have been working in Barcelona, I got so much in touch with Android and mobile developers than in Germany, since my work there was a little bit more theoretical rather than applied. Although I don't use on a regular basis Google Translate or any engine to translate my applications (this is a problem of quality vs. quantity, where I bet...

(brainstorming, idklabs)

Last Wednesday we inaugurated the IdkLabs at our office. The underlying philosophy is to create a space of coworking and to put in practice our own ideas and personal projects. It is a real injection of fresh air to work in more creative topics, and to forget a bit of the mechanic, less pleasant development. Plus the result of working in a funny,...