Archive for April, 2009
Official Blog Talks Up Widget Design
Talk all you want about soft keyboard and video recording, but the biggest change in Android will be the implementation of widgets. Starting with calendars, picture frames, and playlists, Google is offering up a few official widgets for your Android home screen. It won’t be long until we see RSS readers, twitter clients, stock tickers [...]
Widget Design Guidelines
Since the beginning of the year, the Android UI team has been hard at work on the Android 1.5 release. Starting today with widgets, we would like to share some of our evolving Android design principles with you.Widgets are a new feature that application developers can use to promote a small sample of the most relevant dynamic data from their [...]
Droid Comic Viewer (Version 1.2.13)
Droid Comic Viewer (also known as ACV) is a lightweight comic or manga viewer developed by Robot Comics for Android mobiles. ACV main features are: * Supports CBZ, ZIP and ACV files composed of JPEG, PNG, BMP or GIF images * Read comics from your SD card * Left-to-right or right-to-left reading direction * Use the touch screen and trackball to [...]
Android 1.5 Walk Through Video
After getting a “tip” from a Phandroid commenter named Bo Shonka that the Official Cupcake Update was hitting T-Mobile G1s in the US and UK, I vowed not to sleep until I learned the truth. The rumor proved true as others across the globe began confirming the news and Bo Shonka sent in a picture of the update in progress to prove it. [...]
Motorola CEO Confirms Holiday Android Phones
This morning, Motorola released their First-Quarter Financial Results. We could bore you with lots of financial details but instead, we’ll quote a passage that will certainly excite you: Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of Mobile Devices, added, “In the quarter at Mobile Devices, we implemented aggressive actions to reduce costs and [...]
App Review: Repligo Reader (PDF)
Title: Repligo Reader 1.1 Developer(s): cerience Available: Now, Android Market Price: $4.95 Lasting Impression: A no-frills PDF reader that gives you exactly what you’d expect. Tight Android integration make it easy to pull up files from emails and websites too. Nitty Gritty: One of the biggest reasons for my downloading of [...]
Motorola to Offer Multiple Android Devices by Holidays
“In the quarter at Mobile Devices, we implemented aggressive actions to reduce costs and also gained solid traction on improving operational effectiveness. Customer feedback on our smartphone roadmap remains very positive, and we plan to have differentiated Android-based devices in stores in time for the fourth-quarter holiday season. - Sanjay [...]
Google Voice Review (And Contest)
Get used to hearing the words “Google Voice” an awful lot because after using it for the past week I would describe it with three words: awesome, awesome, awesome. I’m going to take some time using text, pictures and videos to: Overview what you can do with Google Voice Walk you through setup and 1st time use of Google [...]
It Has Begun – Cupcake Rollout Starts in US and UK!
Keep a close on your G1 over the next few days. T-Mobile is apparently sending out the Cupcake/Android 1.5 update to owners living in the US and UK. At least, according to what we’re finding across the internet. Finally, we can put to bed the rumors and speculation. Is it us, or was this update as anticipated just as much as the actual [...]
Tangram Master (Version 2.9.5)
T Puzzle and China Tangram game 2 in 1. It is a great challenge to your geometric imagination! 360 puzzles from IQ 100-150 now. Read more @ AndAppStore.com New Listings
