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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 11, 2011
Adobe Eazel Adobe is diving headfirst into the tablet market, as it just announced the Photoshop Touch software development kit. The SDK works in conjunction with Photoshop CS5 and a new scripting eng...
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by Kyle Gibb
Apr 01, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing Developers over at InKnowledge have created a native Android SDK for Microsoft's Bing Maps. The SDK allows "developers a choice in terms of map controls" for ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 08, 2011
At the Android Developer Conference in San Francisco today, Immersion has released the MOTIV SDK -- bringing the ability to completely customize haptic feedback on Android devices to both OEM's a...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 23, 2011
Want to add a drop of Honeycomb to your phone, desktop or tablet? You can now find nine new wallpapers from the latest Android 3.0 SDK build over on the Android Central forums. The images are all at l...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 22, 2011
Anytime a new Android SDK comes out, you'll quickly see an onslaught of ports popping up on various phones. These aren't even unofficial builds, but ports from the Android system images bui...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 18, 2011
As many developers are still making their way through the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) SDK, many are finding, testing and making use of the many new API's found within. One such API being played around ...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 09, 2011
Over at the Android Developers blog today, Google has announced an update to Android 2.3 that adds new NFC capabilities for developers. Google also stated that since NFC is an emerging technology, the...
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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 Phil Nickinson
Jan 26, 2011
We got our first real taste of Android 3.0 -- "Honeycomb" -- on the Motorola Xoom tablet during CES in early January. It's a pretty big leap from the Android we know and love today, to be s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 26, 2011
Google just announced Android 3.0 Honeycomb and has released a preview of the SDK to go along with it. Here are the big points:A new "holographic" user interface and interaction model -...
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by Kyle Gibb
Jan 03, 2011
Since the announcement of Google TV, we've been promised Android apps, and devs have been promised the tools to build them. In a recent post over at The Official Google TV Blog, it was announced that ...
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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
Dec 07, 2010
Gingerbread ROMs are being ported from the 2.3 SDK device emulator left and right. As of this writing, we have the Eris, the Hero, the Wildfire (pictured, and video after the break), and th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2010
Ask us to define art, and we'll tell you this: We know it when we see it. And tucked deep inside the Android 2.3 Gingerbread SDK is this little ... gem. Can't decide if we're going to have night...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2010
This is one that most of us here in the United States take for granted. Android 2.2 supports 26 languages, or variants thereof. Android 2.3 Gingerbread more than doubles that at 57. And atop th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2010
Gingerbread is finally here, folks. Google has just released the SDK -- that's the software development kit, the building blocks for the OS. We're about to dive headfirst into this guy, but here...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 03, 2010
The Barnes & Noble Nook Color, an eReader that moonlights as a pretty nice Android tablet, now has its own Android SDK add-on. This means developers have access to code snippets, android deb...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 07, 2010
When you get down to it, the giant Gingerbread man statue on Google's campus should be proof enough that Android 2.3 is nearly here. But if you still need more, here are a few other signs that have be...
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by Dallin Hampton
Sep 13, 2010
Have you ever found yourself wishing that you could have your Android device preform actions with little if any physical input? That's what developer GClue K.K. is hoping to accomplish with the Blocc...
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by afazel
Sep 06, 2010
For root users only! If you want to do some of the lower-level stuff with your Android phone, you're going to need ADB, which stands for Android Debug Bridge -- basically a way of connecting yo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 08, 2010
If you're the type of Android user who has the SDK stashed on your computer (and let's face it -- if you're reading this, chances are you do), then know that Google has updated it to be in line with t...
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by Dallin Hampton
May 27, 2010
Have you ever wanted to share your new Doodle Jump high score with all your friends only to realize that the game lacked the ability to publish your score to Facebook? The Official Facebook SDK for A...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 21, 2010
Yes that is a real picture, even though it's blurry as all get out. (Never claimed to be a photographer :P) No, I didn't get a magic OTA from Phil while he was at Google I/O, it's a 2.2 SDK emulator v...
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by Dieter Bohn
May 20, 2010
The Froyo craziness continues - Google as already released the Software Development Kit for Android 2.2.If you're an Android developer, go on over to the Android Developer site to get your downlo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 11, 2010
Android 2.1 has been officially available on the Google Nexus One for nearly a week now, but the SDK had not -- until now.There are a number of new APIs on board, including for the animated wallpapers...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 30, 2009
Hey, hey! Look at the video above, it's your friendly T-Mobile G1 running the brand spanking new Android 2.0 'Eclair'. It's not a final Android 2.0 build nor is it anywhere close to being an official ...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 27, 2009
Google just announced that the Android SDK now supports Android 2.0 'Eclair'! We've seen Android 2.0 in screenshots from the Droid but Google is only officially introducing the 'Eclair' build of ...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 16, 2009
Google just announced that the Android 1.6 'Donut' SDK is available for download. Android 1.6 introduces a number of new features that'll surely help Android grow bigger, faster, and stronger--specifi...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 28, 2009
We knew that Android Dev Phone would be good for something! Android 1.5 aka Cupcake is now available for your download pleasure if you happen to own one of those quirky little Dev Phones. The in...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 17, 2009
Can't wait for Google to release the Cupcake Update? Yeah, us neither. Luckily, we have some pretty genius minds out there in the developer community and one of them (haykuro) has gotten the HTC Magic...
