Blake Meike

http://twitter.com/callmeike

Seattle, Washington

Android Everywhere!

Areas of Expertise:

  • Java
  • OO-development
  • Android
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing
Blake Meike is an engineer with more than 30 years of experience, much of it with Java. He has built systems as large as Amazon's massively scalable AutoScaling service and as small as a pre-Android OSS/Linux based Java-like platform for cell-phones. He is currently deep in Android. Our new book is out! You can buy "Programming Android" right here

Programming Android Programming Android
by Laird Dornin , Zigurd Mednieks , Blake Meike , Masumi Nakamura
July 2011
Print: $44.99
Ebook: $35.99

Webcast: Android Honeycomb Fragments: Creating Large-Screen UIs for Android Devices
September 09, 2011
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Watch the recorded webcast > When Android was used nearly exclusively for very small screens, the one-activity/one-screen UI worked very well. Users moved from screen to screen to access different...

Webcast: Concurrent programming in Android
September 29, 2011
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Watch the recorded webcast > Until quite recently, mobile platforms were a pretty safe place to run concurrent programs. Since they had only a single, simple processor, even programs that took completely...

Blake Meike

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