Archive for February, 2009
AllBinary Arcade One (Version 1.0.8)
Collection of games from including MiniSpaceWar, Zepto Racer, and SantasWorldWar Read more @ AndAppStore.com New Listings
Microsoft Microscope on Android and Apple
The "concern" of open-source mobile operating system Android is not far from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's mind. Ramping up investments into a client operating system, Ballmer says the line between a phone and PC operating system is changing. Windows Mobile currently ranks third, just in front of Apple iPhone with Ballmer ... Read more @ [...]
You Tell Us: What Have You Purchased in the Market?
Ok, so the Android Market has been up now for a little over a week and a whole new batch of apps have arrived. We’d like to know what you guys are spending your money on. Are there any apps you found to be worth the money? Leave a comment below and let us know your thoughts on the paid apps. Read more @ AndroidGuys
Android Layout Tricks #2: Reusing layouts
Android comes with a wide variety of widgets, small visual construction blocks you can glue together to present the users with complex and useful interfaces. However applications often need higher level visual components. A component can be seen as a complex widget made of several simple stock widgets. You could for instance reuse a panel [...]
Kogan return: Agora will launch after redesign [Video]
Kogan made waves last year with their Agora smartphones, which at the time were promised to be the second commercially available Android-based handsets. That didn't pan out, and back in January Kogan confirmed that the Agora and Agora Pro were "delayed indefinitely". Now Kogan is back, with founder Ruslan Kogan claiming ... Read more @ [...]
Google Developer G1 loses paid-app access
Google has blocked access to paid Android applications to the very people who most likely would have vested interest in accessing them: developers using the officially-sanctioned unlocked G1. Google released the Developer version of the G1 back in December 2008, priced at $399, making it available to anybody willing to ... Read more @ Android [...]
JRuby Hacked to Run on Android
Thanks to Twitter, we’ve started following (and getting followed by) some really cool folks - people who are capable of some truly amazing feats. Take for instance today’s news coming courtesy of Charles Nutter (@headius) who is a member of a group who calls themselves the Ruby Users of Minnesota. At a meeting earlier this week, the [...]
Snaptell & Shazam Video Reviews
I’ve been talking these last few days with John Walton who does work over at PhoneDog. He’s a very cool guy who puts together app reviews and most often includes these fun-to-watch videos. Today, I’m gonna embed a double app review that he did on Snaptell and Shazam. Here’s a bit of information to go along with his [...]
Android and Windows Running Simultaneously
Alright folks, take a look at this video of VMWare for mobile devices - a demo of the Nokia N800 running VMWare’s MVP hypervisor that allows Windows (Embedded CE 6.0) and Android to be booted up and running simultaneously as if they were merely applications and not entire OSes. Its awesomeness pretty much speaks for itself: I’m sure [...]
AndAppStore Client (Version 1.2.3)
The AndAppStore.com client will show you the latest and hottest apps available for your Android device. Read more @ AndAppStore.com New Listings
