My name is Alessandro La Rosa, and I'm a freelance software architect for Mobile and Web platforms. I'm living in Rome, Italy.
Feel free to contact me at: info@jappit.com
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Live Prints, the new Live Wallpaper for Android devices created and presented some days ago by Leonardo, is finally live on the Android Market!
I personally love this wallpaper for its gorgeous graphics and the level of interactivity that it provides. My favorite theme? Bloody hands on sand! 
Just follow this link on your Android device, or use the QRCode below to get it!
Leonardo just presented his new project, Live Prints:
I’m excited to show you some screenshots of my latest personal project: Live Prints, an Android Live Wallpaper. Simply chose a predefined look (or combine different backgrounds and prints) and watch the prints walking around your home screen and interact with your taps, icons and widgets…
First screenshots look absolutely great: let’s wait for the official release!
A new community for all mobile developers, designers and everything-else gets officially launched today, thanks to the efforts of Giorgio Natili, Leonardo Risuleo, and Alessandro La Rosa (me 
): http://www.mobilerevamp.org
With different backgrounds, we all aim at providing useful information about the mobile environment, in all its aspects. From its manifesto:
The aim of this community is to share as much as possible information related to the mobile development using all the social networks and the new capabilities of the NET to make easier find updated contents and to create a deep feeling of connection between developers.
The journey is at the beginning, hope you’ll join in!
I had some fun putting together an online simulator for MobileJoomla!, that allows to preview and test the MobileJoomla! features directly on your Web browser.
In this first version, the online simulator allows you to pick one of 4 devices (Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N95 8GB, Apple iPhone and HTC Dream), and see how the MobileJoomla! website looks on that.
MobileJoomla! allows you to turn your Joomla web site into a mobile one, compatible with all the existing mobile phones. For more information, you can take a look at MobileJoomla! Wiki.
dang! something new for me to play with
molto interessante, รจ eventualmente possibile testare un proprio sito?
Good news for all Android users blogging on WordPress: the first version of the Android client is finally available, and allows you to configure multiple accounts, and so to easily keep updates all your blogs.
Features’ list include:
To download WordPress for Android, just point your browser to the download page.
(via ReadWriteWeb)
Time for a quick update about some apps I’ve published some months ago on Android Market.
I want to share the data related to 3 applications (Televideo, APN Italy and Codice Fiscale), especially intended for the Italian market and users. As you can see in the picture below, download counts are not that great. This is someway predictable, as in Italy the diffusion of Android devices is still in an early phase, and has to battle with phone operators that don’t seem to support them at all.
Operators, at least in Italy, don’t seem to care about the fact that the Android platform, being open, could bring them great benefits. Just consider the distribution of applications: operators could easily setup their own Application Stores, pre-installing those into their devices, and have users download their applications without forcing them to pass by third-party stores. This would bring more incomes (no shares to be divided) and more freedom (no third-party policies to follow) to the distribution of their own content.
So, right now, Italy doesn’t seem to be the best market to distribute Android apps in, but what about other countries? Has anyone some data to share?
Those download counts are to be expected considering your target audience is Italian; however, your retention rate is good and I would guess the number of comments users have made are above average. I have an app that has approx 50,000 downloads and has only 400 or so user comments. The retention rate is currently at 40%.
I agree that most operators are missing the benefits Android could bring them. HTC and T-Mobile are the onvious exclusions and as such have been quite successful the last year having jumped on the Android bandwagon so to speak. I do believe Android will be adopted ever more so in the coming year however and in time will be the OS of choice for most manufacturers – it’ll just take time.
Nice blog btw, I have bookmarked you
Hello Mylo,
thank you for your insights into this post!
I’m not that optimistic about Android for the next year, I just think It’ll take more time to create a clearer identity around Android devices, especially for tech-unaware users. Right now, Android is clearly geek, and people without a minimum of mobile expertise are reluctant to try and purchase it..
Marco, and 
Mylo are discussing.
Shivian Balaris 10:42 pm on July 23, 2010 Permalink
I *REALLY* Want this for my new Samsung Vibrang (a Galaxy S phone) but I can’t find it in the Android Market. Is it blocked?!?! Please email me directly to let me know what’s up, because I really want this background!