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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 26, 2012
Goodbye menu button, hello Action Bar overflow! Today on the Android Developers blog Scott Main, lead technical writer from Google, wrote up a nice piece of prose about how developers should m...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 21, 2011
Google's App Inventor is dead, long live MIT's App Inventor!
A final notice everyone -- if you have some projects sitting around in App Inventor, and would like to keep them, either for som...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 28, 2011
There's more than one way to write Android apps, and if you're working on something intense, you know using the NDK and native code is the way to go. If you're a part-time develope...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 24, 2011
Googlers work hard. A quick look at the sheer number and scope of the products big G offers is testament to that. But they also like to have fun. When an Android developer requeste...
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by Jared DiPane
Oct 21, 2011
Today Casio announced an Android-based Point of Sale terminal. The Casio VX-100 EPOS terminal will run an custom version of Android 2.2 and Casio has built a software development kit that is compati...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 15, 2011
Google has launched a new developer portal where it can share news about events and updates, as well as offer examples and use cases for developers of all their products -- including Android. To...
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by Alex Dobie
Sep 14, 2011
HTC's 7-inch Flyer tablet is the latest device to find itself with an unlockable bootloader, courtesy of the official HTC development website. Added to the bottom of the list of unlockable devi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 07, 2011
Carriers, manufacturers who play nice get 'non-contractual time to market advantage'Can't say this surprises us much. Think back to mid-May, when This is my Next's Nilay Patel did a bang-up job explai...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 09, 2011
If flinging birds at pigs is starting to get a little repetitive, London web developer Tamlyn has lain the basic premise for your very own army of Android powered robot tanks. Using an existing ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 14, 2011
Anyone interested in open source development with the means to attend should check out Portland on July 25 to July 29, where O'Reily Media's annual open-source convention will be held. This year...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 07, 2011
Attention, developers! Are you looking for a way to add user-to-user sharing in your mobile application, using an already established cross-platform messenger service? If so, the people at...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 06, 2011
The Android SDK tools and ADT plugin for Eclipse have both been updated to version 12. It looks like the big change in the SDK tools allow developers to use system images compiled...
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by Jason Bauman
Jun 06, 2011
Atinm, the developer responsible for maintaining CyanogenMod on the Samsung Vibrant and Captivate, recently received a free Galaxy S 2 to develop for. (click to see our hands-on). Don't ad...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 01, 2011
The concept of running Android in automobiles is far from being a new one, for better or worse. Saab however outlined today in a press release how they're hoping to change the landscape with their An...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 28, 2011
Simon Walker, developer program head at Sony Ericsson, has made an interesting series of tweets suggesting the manufacturer may be about to change its stance on rooting and custom ROM development. Ju...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 03, 2011
The VideoLAN team is hard at work on the Android version of VLC media player, and yesterday one of the developers working on bringing this leading video player to Android gave a quick update on ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 30, 2011
While nobody is quite sure why (none of us, anyway), the Honeycomb SDK preview seems to have gone AWOL for most everyone looking for it. We started to get tips and questions Saturday evenin...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 25, 2011
Infinity Blade and Gears of War developer Epic Games has revealed where Android fits into its future development plans in a recent interview.Gaming site Slowdown.vg sat down with Jay Wilbur, Epic's Vi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 11, 2011
Microsoft gave its mobile offerings a huge overhaul with Windows Phone 7, putting them on par with phones running iOS or Android in the eyes of many. All bias aside, I think they have a winner i...
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by Jesse Potter
Dec 18, 2010
Whenever a new version of Android is released, one thing you can always count on is the developer community hacking it onto as many devices as they can. Using the kernel and system image from th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 15, 2010
Google has announced that its popular (and fun) tool App Inventor is now open to anyone with a Google account. If you're not quite sure what App Inventor is exactly, don't feel too bad -- in typ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 14, 2010
Google has just posted the 2.6.35 Linux kernel source for the Nexus S to its git repository. Not only is this Step 1 in the release path for the phone itself, but it gives developers (and developers-i...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 07, 2010
If you're an Android application developer, this one is for you -- there's a bit of a show-stopping bug in the ADT plugin for Eclipse when used with the Android 2.3 SDK. Reports are in that afte...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 23, 2010
We all spend a lot of time discussing exactly what Android is, and isn't. Because it's something relatively new, we always end up comparing it to something that isn't quite the same, like embedd...
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by Jared DiPane
Oct 12, 2010
We all know there has been quite a bit of drama in regards to the development ability of the recently launched T-Mobile G2. For those who didn't buy into everything and return their device (which is p...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 20, 2010
Adobe AIR for Android should go live on the Android Market on Oct. 8, according to a tip posted in the Android Central Forums by aquakevem, and developers will be able to upload their apps as soo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 25, 2010
A report by Appcelerator published today shows that even though developers are very interested in working with iOS, interest in Android, especially Android tablets, is soaring. 62 percent of tho...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 30, 2009
As much as we love Android Market, we know it has some weaknesses. The categories could be a bit more specific, the reviews could still be better, and well, the search feature needs to be more e...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 23, 2009
As great as Firefox is for desktop web browsing, right now, it's just as bad for mobile browsing. Okay, it's not that bad. But really, Firefox Mobile (they dropped the Fennec moniker to prevent confus...
