Saturday, February 25, 2012

Building the foundations for a fantastic future: Proxy Settings available in more Android markets!

Hey! Did you already vote for my proxy questions on StackOverflow? Not yet? Do it now! With some more answers we can approach to the final solution to our issue.

But today I'm optimistic, something is changed, some answers are starting to arrive, thank you some Googlers that finally decided to listen to me (thank you again for your patient guys!), so I created a new blog section called: Answered questions. I'll move here all the questions that will receive answers, so we can track the history to the investigation to the final solution.


In the meantime, following the requests received, I can proudly announce you that Proxy Settings is ready and available to donwload in two new repositories:




Please let me know if you have more online repositories where you would like to see Proxy Settings. 

Happy download!




Tuesday, February 21, 2012

It's time for the truth: Android VS Proxy

Hi guys, this post could sound a little frustrating, but it's actually my mood in the last days. I have tried to get in contact with some google advocates to get some answers regarding our issue, but no one ever answer back to me. I also tried to post the same questions on StackOverflow or Google Groups, but still nothing.

So I decided that it's time to publicly ask for som transparency. I think that I deserve it... I'm sorry, let me reformulate the sentence: WE deserve it. As a Android users, developers, companies. We chosed Android as a main platform, so we need to understand why these issue is still open and why it seems that Google still continue to ignore the problem. So again, it's time for the truth...


How can we get to the truth? I had 2 ideas (let me know if you have better ones):


1. Questions that need answers. I created this new section on the right where I'll try to link all the answers that need answers. Answers that I'm trying to give to you both users and developers, but sometimes it's better to have some confirmations from someone who have a deep knowledge of the platform, someone who can decide what should be implemented in the next release, someone who have the responsability to chose the path that the development has to follow (hey Googlers, I'm talking with you!). If you share the goals of this project, just give a vote to these questions on StackOverflow, maybe if we get an high number of votes, someone will decide that it's time to give us an answer.


2. Proxy Settings roadmap. Thanks to interstateapp.com, I started to put some informations about what I'm working on regarding the Proxy Settings application. If you have special needs or feature requests, just send me an email at lechuckATandroid-proxyDOTcom, or leave a comment into the blog.

At the end, as always, I need your help to make this project really succesfull. I'm trying to do my best to help all the users that have the proxy issue, so please if you share with me the same needs try to spread the word! Together we can make it!


Peace !

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Android Proxy Library (APL): the best fertilizer for a professional Android application!

Hi guys! Well, maybe it's better to say right from the start of this post: Hi Devs!

[Yes, this post will be more or less only business for developers, but hey, users are always welcome, so you can still propose and ask to your favourite developers what they don't already know.]

As I promised in my last post, here you are a small gift for all the developers!
Something that a developer MUST HAVE in its application. One of the things (obviously is not the only) that a developer can do to obtain a really professional perception of its application. So, after some weeks of hard coding,


I can proudly present to you my latest work. If you really are frequent and focused reader of this blog, you should have seen appear a new link on the right in the last days, under the FUNDAMENTAL LINKS section. I called it: