[AccessD] OT: Seagate Satellite

Stuart,

I also want to get into Android development of custom apps for myself / my clients (work), and my 
daughter.

I am looking at buying one of the new Nexus 7 tablets.  While it does not have the surface area of a 
larger tablet it is within my price range.  I am also looking to develop educational applications 
for my daughter who is developmentally delayed / intellectually disabled.  She loves the Kindle Fire 
but it is trapped in an Amazon skin.  Yes I actually have rooted it but I like having an Amazon Skin 
on that, the kids play all kinds of games from the Amazon store.

I think the Nexus would give me the latest android OS and tons of power for programming, plus a form 
factor that is kid friendly.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it


On 7/14/2012 10:11 AM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> Talking of new toys...
>
> I've just bought myself a Motorola Xoom.
>
> We've been using them for recording and emailing results for the PNG National Elections.
> Some else wrote the application to do that and I've written a system in PowerBasic/Access to
> automagically collect the emails, strip out the results, store them in the database, print out a
> copy on receipt and send updates to the website at http://results.pngec.gov.pg.   The Access
> app also generated various printouts/reports.
>
> Having seen what the tablets can do, I decided that I really had to learn to program  them.
> I've found a neat tool called Basic4Android and installed all the necessary bits but haven't
> really started learning to use it yet.  It looks like a great way to develop Android apps for
> anyone with VBA/PB etc skills.
>
> I've spent the last couple of days playing with the Xoom and downloading various free
> tools/apps.
>
> All I can say is - WOW!     I love it.   MS are really going to have to work to make a dent with
> Win8 for tablets.
>