>I am going to send you a bill for my lost billable hours in the last couple days thanks to your irresponsible mention of android etc. ;-)
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>I downloaded Eclipse and sqllite and started playing with java and going through the tutorials and now am about to download the plugin specifically for android apps.
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>Of course the problem is no one is actually paying me to do this, but if someone would like to I can easily add it to my "geek out" list. <bg> Looks like fun. Will continue to mess with it. Definitely qualifies as being one of those areas ( like .NET ) where there is a *very* large community, some very cool toys, and a wealth of learning stuff. IOW it ain't VFP.
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>Thanks. Don't know if anything will ever come of it, but at least I feel I'll have a little better understanding of what the fuss is about ( and I have my eye on a next generation Samsung Galexy tablet or maybe that new ATT smartphone Tracy posted about ... )
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>See, old dogs can learn new tricks ( but an old dog getting paid his top rate to learn it would, of course, learn faster <s> )
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ROFL !

I spent some time with Eclipse and sqllite but got too busy with work that pays (although if you develop an app the teens think they must have you could make a lot on .99 each download. I found that I was just too slow -- all of my "ideas" were not out there when I first checked but by the time I started working on them there was at least one just like it available already :o) .... I plan on getting back to it. :o)

There are "teams" of developers out there working together to push out a lot of android apps and then sharing the profits (if there are any). That might be something to consider if it's never a "full time" endeavor...

The next one to beat me to the punch will probably be the android app for creating your own facebook banner -- one that will have a few simple backgrounds and you enter the text and it automatically generates 5 separate images of 485x68 and uploads them to facebook and tags them in reverse order for you. I'm sure that's been done too.... probably works like a tweet now too so the banner can change everytime you post a new status....