hello

howdy, fitz!

how can I help you today?

I am beyond help today :)

why? Tax Day was yesterday

so I an on tutorials running 17-lacation

trying to figure out this mess with keystore

that would be the 18-Map tutorial

as I understand it keystore in Eclipse already runs in background and in IntelliJ it does as well

you don't need a keystore just to get location data

ya sorry 18-maps and looking at 19

um, I'd phrase it more that all the build processes automatically sign your APK

unless you stipulate manually that you want an unsigned APK

but you say we need an API key - link goes to Google and this MD5 fingerprint

yes

so do I need to get this MD5 fingerprint from 3rd party

no

you follow the instructions on the Google Add-On site

specifically start with "Getting the MD5 Fingerprint of the SDK Debug Certificate"

that's where I link you to at the bottom of page 217

"Full instructions for doing this can be found on the Android developer site", with 'Android developer site' being a hyperlink

ok will look it over - question on google apps and tying into them, can we do this for free gmail accounts or does a user have to be a google apps paid user ($50/yr)

beats the heck out of me

I've never used a GData API in my life outside of C2DM

ok just thought I would ask

oh, that's not true

I wrote a little script to update my Gmail sig

but I have zero experience with Google Docs via API

you see music clouds are forming :)

???

Amazon anouncing the 5GB free to store music - and if you buy music from them they automatically store it for you for free - idea being you link all your devices to the cloud account and you can play the music

Google is about to do the same - should be interesting to see

oh

I was trying to figure out where "music clouds" tied into Google Docs

and map API keys

big boys are going to hammer it out - wonder what the music industry thinks :)

what's interesting is that the "music industry" apparently really isn't all that big

Amazon or Google could buy a major record label outright without batting an eye

map API - I just need to read up on it more - music cloud is the talk of the town - I would think you will here more at Google IO

possibly on the I|O -- depends on whether there are GData APIs or not

it's enough of a developer conference that pure user-facing stuff probably won't get a lot of airtime

though, looking at the topics, it is practically an Android conference

well that could be there ticket to bigger things at Google

so on a side note - are there many business applications out in the market - apps that actually help the business traveler or just games :)

I would think with Tablet out and in due time that business people would want some business apps as well

well, on a percentage basis, I'd say the "business apps" is probably a smaller area than it was on Windows Mobile

I am thinking on the lines of a light app for cell and full paid version for tablet

I think that free/paid split is a good strategy

by default, the phone app will still be available for tablets, but the "premium" edition would make use of the real estate and add other stuff

ya and I assume tablet market will not really get cranken till x-mass

agreed

it'll pick up some steam this summer, when more models come out

but serious momentum probably isn't until the holiday season

was in a hackathon the weekend before you were in CA and google tablet expert was asked how many apps run on it now - he said 8

"run on it" really means "optimized for tablets"

for example, Evernote just pushed out a major update today, but didn't add any tablet-specific support

it runs on a tablet just fine

so it is super small but he said the market apps will be offered on tablet - so he made it sound like it is a matter of just opening the door

however, they don't make as effective of use of the screen space as they could

ok that makes sense

ok well I can drop off and not hold you up today - have a good night

I'm here until 8:30pm Eastern, regardless

some people drop in late

ok well maybe I will keep open just to observe

will go try the MD5 stuff

ok have MD5 - that was fun :)

You have an odd definition of "fun"

ya it is twisted

any final questions?

well, that's it for the chat

next one is Thursday at 10am Eastern

have a pleasant day!