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GameLoft’s recent (and strangely public) announcement that they will be withdrawing resources from Android-based game development has surprised much of the Android community. The fact that a major software house would begin to shun ...
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During a subway ride to work, I was smacked in the face with an abominable, sacrilegious image that rocked me to my core. To my right sat a young man playing with his Motorola Droid. ...
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Before I being this, some background. Sometimes intelligent gifted people are not the easiest to interface with. Dave Winer certainly could be said to be the Frank Zappa of the RSS user community at times. So when you find an aha moment from dave winer explained by himself in an easy non ...
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I am a big fan of applications that do a lot and need little to do it–basically, high-impact, low-maintenance apps If you are like me you will enjoy the QSB addon applications by Arno den Hond .
The Quick Search Box widget is a pretty useful tool in and of itself, but adding these ...
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Tonight I finished chapter 3 of Hello, Android . You can see, if you click past the cut, a few more screenshots. So now we have an "about" box, settings menu, the settings page and the new game options. So far the largest problem developing for the Android is working with a new IDE and my bad ...
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Tonight I finally cracked open my copy of Hello, Android by Ed Burnette . So far I've installed the tools on my dev system and started working through the first tutorial app, Sudoku . Here's a shot of my progress so far:
Pretty, eh? Too bad nothing happens when you push the shiny buttons.
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The Android Developer Challenge 2 winners were announced… but it doesn’t seem like many are satisfied with the results. As I looked down the list of winners, I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of favorite apps of mine were—gasp—missing! Blasphemy! How did this happen?
One part of the ...
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A year ago, as awesome as Android 1.0 was, it had a whole lot of warts. Today, with much better hardware running Android 2.0, the wider geek world is coming around to recognize Android’s potential . But in a recent TechCrunch post , Jason Kincaid pointed out a big ol’ wart he still sees ...
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See my Droidcon London 2009 presentation below as SlideShare presentation or download it from here . Understanding the Dalvik bytecode with the Dedexer tool View more documents from Gabor Paller .
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For any naysayers out there, I bring a little more evidence to help convince you of a VoIP GPhone. In an article titled “ Android Comes to WiMAX ,” it’s mentioned that Android has been used in VoIP phone calls.
“In early November, D2 and Beceem completed what they claim to be the ...
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Netbook News was in attendance at IT Month in Taiwan where they got some hands on experience with Inventec’s new N18 MID. What’s interesting about this device is that it’s almost a hybrid MID and mini-netbook. Sporting a 4.8-inch WVGA touchscreen, 250GB storage, and a full QWERTY ...
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Handcent SMS is a free SMS tools for android, it full unleash the power of your phone: Full support SMS & MMS, great customize options, different style and power function (search sms, sms popup, speak sms & T9). Full support MMS on Droid and add “Split 160″ function, visit ...
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After spending so much time staring jealously at our American cousins with their shiny new verizon Droids, finally our wait is nearing an end.
Expansys, the UK electronics retailer has announced that they will launch the UK exclusive for the Motorola Milestone in the run up to ...
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Tired of the standard Google Calendar widget that only shows in that small frame? Well then, CalWidget may be the answer you are looking for.
This is a Google Calendar display widget that provides users the option to choose from one or more multiple sized widgets that can be placed on ...
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Although our last application is working pretty good with SAX Parser, but as i said i'm gonna use Pull Parser instead, to see how it works, as far as i know Pull Parsing is a bit slower that SAX parsing but it gives the ability to stop parsing in the middle of a document and this means that ...
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One challenge with open source projects is finding people to fix the bugs. After all, bug-fixing is supposed to be an easy way to get developers started contributing to a project. But people sometimes forget that bug fixing, like anything in open source, inevitably involves “scratching your own ...
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For some time now I’ve been wanting to research more deeply about the internals of Android . Until now, though, this was just a sentiment. Then, a couple of weeks ago I’ve finally managed to replace my iPhone for an Android phone, and that was the final motivator for me to actually get into ...
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The HTC Hero 2.1 ROM with SenseUI is now avaibale via XDA-developers and AllDroid!
Download it at your own risk. This is not an official ROM, nor will it have all the updated, carrier specific software, packaged with it. As always, if you decide to try out the ROM, make sure to back ...
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The beta signup page is now live for our home screen, refresh the product page or go straight to the form.
We’re going to take a relatively small group of testers to start, but hope to expand quickly from there – so don’t get discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re hoping to [...]
