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 MobileSchool is now ready for you… and the Italian Developer can improve their knowledge through it!
Now the subscriptions are open!
Subscribe yourself to one of the stages of the Mobile Revolution; the tour starts in October from Palermo (Sicily) and get to Milan in various stages to disseminate the mobile knowledge.
You can learn more from the website that speaks about it, such as RabenBlog (visible at: http://rabenblog.eraben.com/w/index.php/difficolta/saputello/sviluppare-applicazioni-android-con-mobileschool/) that wrote a beautiful post about Francesco Lo Truglio and his role in the MobileSchool!
and now, what do you want to do? Do you want to stand outside and watch this revolution? Join it!
http://www.mobileschool.it

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Hello to everybody,

after more than a two year on Android platform, we have a new powerful framework to develop tablet based application.
Android HoneyComb! what is ? i cannot spend a lot of words on this but you can read the specs on another post of mine (honeycomb), because in this post i want describe the most important news, needed to have a first approach to this developing environment!
The language and the tools are the same (eclipse, java …and so on!) but the approach need to be different, in honeycomb we have the “Fragment”.
The Fragments be a great way to display content, and allow easier navigation of tablet devices, they are similar to the activity but they are only a piece of the global activity. A Fragment object is something between a View and and Activity: It can be part of a layout, but it isn’t a subclass of View. It implements the ComponentCallbacks interface, and it has a lifecycle, but that lifecycle is dependent on the Activity the Fragment object belongs to. Let’s see what it can do for us in a tablet-sized user interface.
There are four important thing that the fragment do for you:

Dialogs: there is a Fragment called DialogFragment that makes it easy to show a Dialog that is managed as part of the Activity lifecycle.

This replaces Activity’s “managed dialog” APIs.
ListActivity: Another kind of Fragment called ListFragment makes it easy to show a list of data.

This is similar to the existing ListActivity (with a some new features), but answer to the common question about how to show a list with some other data.
State and restoring: all fragments currently attached to an activity are saved for you by the framework in the activity’s saved instance state and restored for you when it restarts. With this you get help on saving (and restoring) the state of the single fragment.
History and Navigation: The backstack of all the fragment object loaded is managed by the framework; so it is very easy the use of the activity back button, and you can integrate the existing activity to the fragment backstack! This kind of state is also saved and restored for you automatically.

Now we are ready to begin! follow us, in a couple of day we will prepare a complete example regarding a first honeycomb application to interact with facebook!
Stay tuned!

Tomorrow 9 May at the 9 o’ clock will be the kick off meeting of the project called Buoni Dentro (good inside) a project that involve prisoners to learn how to make “pasta” and to learn how to have a new future!
Thanks to INFAOP (Gabriele Albergoni), Mediali (Barbara Scira) and Tony Siino (Rosalio author).
Follow they at www.buonidentro.it

Yes this week starts the Formula 1 Gran Prix, the first battle will be in Australia..and we for the event have released a new Iphone/Ipad App colled “f1 Matrix” this is a nice simple app that allow you to see the results since the 2009 to today, follow your favourite pilots and store into your mobile the result for evaluations!
You can find the app on the apple store (this is the link : http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/f1matrix/id425724035 )
The major feature is the simplicity, but you can track the results, compare the pilots and store the results!
visit the wwebsite to see the full description and the other F1 Gran Prix related issues!

Finally for you the Exploro geoLocalisation project is online!

follow the event on http://www.primaonline.it/2011/03/24/90553/tecnologia-con-exploro-italia-a-portata-di-touch/
or read more on www.exploro.it
Exploro is a mobile application that runs on Android, Iphone, Symbian and other device that show you what is around you!

Do you remember “Il était une fois… la Vie” the animated cartoon that speak about the human body? 
now with google you can explore the human body trough the html5 and web GL tecnologies …visit http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html to start your exploration!
PS. only for Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta | WebKit nightly

Finally, after waiting some months the Exploro project meets the web, today the first step is online now you can download the app direct to your Android mobile device and surf the web reading about this project… read more on http://www.exploro.it or download the app directlty from this link 

The changing was in the air. We have promised you and now here is it the official restyling. The changing was in the air. We have promised you and now here is it the official restyling.


Provedi is one of our most bigger project; in it you can watch, search and buy books among more than a million of items; you can look throught the blog and know something about sicily.. do you wanna take a look?

visit http://www.provedi.it

It’s free, needs Android 2.1 or higher, is in the Marketplace and you might as well give it a go.
This new restyle is very friendly and intuitive, if you need to do something (except receie or share file) is possible; during a call the voice quality is very good and if you have a good mobile connection you can make very good call over the network.
there are only some little problem with the login or with some strange error, but we hope that in the next upgrade they were solved!
At the end, the app is very good and useful, there are  some little problem, but this is a first release..and i think that the next coming soon!
Download and try it, to make your impression and post here what do you think!