Android app: Salesforce.com “Voice Notes” (part 1)

Recently, we’ve been working on some mobile apps internally at Mavens, mostly on iOS, but the subject of Android development was intriguing to me, especially given my background in Java. So, last week I started doing some research on the subject and found that there were a few different approaches to writing Android apps [...]

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Abhinav: Interesting stuff !...
joe: @Jeff Douglas: Thanks, Jeff. Yep, I agree, this will be a lot easier with the REST API. Hope we get it soon... (Dreamforce maybe?) :)...
Jeff Douglas: Joe, I took a look at your code this morning and it looks pretty tight. I think this model may change once they release the REST API with OAuth. Then you'll be able to write it natively in Android....
Alex Sutherland: Awesome stuff, so glad to see Android development for the Force.com platform moving forward! The really killer app would be attaching photos from an Android phone to any object, but most especially...
wes: Excellent :) Funnily enough I cited this type of example today when talking about the potential value in the metadata API....
joe: Glad to help, Phillip!...
Phillip Houston: Figured out that it's part of SalesforceConnection.Connection. It may be nice to state here that the code retrieves the "Type" picklist values from the "Task" object. One note, be very careful w...
Phillip Houston: Joe, Where are you getting the apex namespace from? I have force-flex.swc in my project but do not see that. Thanks, Phillip...
joe: Actually, it is a text field. I'm merely using the picklist to present the user a list of possible values....
Raj K: I have idea of instead of putting it in picklist format, just keep it as a text value and backend doing Ajax call to retrieve records for the user to select....