Android application architecture

My professional background roots in the late 80's when Windows 1.x arrived in Italy, some years later  I turned to a server-side development and architecture (C++/C# somehow has been replaced by Java and his friends). But somewere in my hearth still the "client side user experience" rocks.
So looking for something relatively new I have found a very interseting  series about android architecture:

1. Background
2. Architectural styles and patterns
3. Main parts of the applications
4. Application integration layer

It is very useful in my opinion  understand why and WHEN some architectural choices have been made: this can drive how you design your application and how you write your own code for that specific operating system.

Thank you Vlad! loooking forward for part V.

My (short) experience with developing in the cloud(s)

As some of you know I've released an open source integration for spring with jCryption.
In the very beginning of this story I've hosted my source code on gitorious then I switched to github because of a better integrated environment (issues, wiki, ...) and generally speaking a much more "alive environment".

Today I've been astonished by the features given to free accounts on cloudbees PaaS!

In few minutes I've been able to clone my git repository to cloudbees (still maintaining the github one ... and the gitorios as a sort of thermonuclear disaster recovery plan), create a jenkins build job and deploy my app into the cloud.
Next will be the maven artifact repository use, now I'm using the sonatype one to deliver release artifacts to maven central ... see you!

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delle forme d'arte moderna.
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dei pacchi sorpresa
dei campi di pallone
della miseria e della nobiltà.
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delle vigne di Barolo
del profumo delle rotaie
dell'odore dei vagoni.
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delle notizie porta a porta
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della nobiltà della miseria.
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Dopo un breve corteggiamento virtuale la banlieue ha fatto centro anche questa volta: Vincenzo Costantino Cinaski è tornato sul luogo del delitto e ciao deliziato con le sue parole intense. io devo dire che me la sono proprio goduda, un momento alto ed intenso; solo una cosa non ho compreso: perchè ridevano soprattutto le donne?