Archive for April, 2009
App Review – YPmobile Local Search
Title: YPmobile Developer(s): YellowPages.com Available: Now, Android Market Price: FREE Lasting Impression: A good resource for on-the-go searching (and finding) of businesses. Nitty Gritty: After a long night of “bible studies” you find yourself in no shape to drive. In fact, you don’t really remember where you’re stumbling either. What [...]
Dan Morill Talks Future Proofing Apps on Eve of Google I/O
The biggest Android event of the year is coming in a matter of weeks. Google I/O is a “gathering focused on pushing the boundaries of web applications using Google and open web technologies. Google engineers and web development leaders will lead you through two days full of in-depth breakout sessions on the latest technologies, and [...]
Embedded Alley Brings Android to MIPS Architecture Devices
Embedded Alley Brings Android to MIPS Architecture Devices, Expanding Android Platform Application Space Enables Android on RMI Alchemy Processor Family for Personal Multimedia, Digital Video, Automotive Infotainment San Jose, CA and NAB Show, Las Vegas, NV, April 23, 2009 - Embedded Alley, a leading provider of embedded Linux® solutions, today [...]
Future-Proofing Your Apps
Hi, developers! I hope you've heard about the early-look version of the Android 1.5 SDK that we recently released. There are some great new features in there, but don't get too excited yet -- some of you will need to fix some problems in your apps before you can start taking advantage of Android 1.5.We've done some fairly extensive testing of [...]
Google Product Search For Mobile
So you’re at a store looking at a lava lamp at Spencer Gifts and are wondering if you should buy it. Can I get it somewhere cheaper? Is this product/brand reliable or will it break in a couple months? Personally, I’ve been using ShopSavvy and Compare Everywhere to find my answers. But often these applications come up with no results [...]
G1 Army Marching 1 Million Deep In USA
Deutsche Telekom’s stock has tumbled in recent days and much of that was tied to a public announcment which downgraded their estimated financial outlook for the remaineder of 2009. The company, who trades with stock ticker (DT), owns the T-Mobile and inherently are responsible for our beloved G1. And when I say “our” I mean all [...]
Creating an Input Method
To create an input method (IME) for entering text into text fields and other Views, you need to extend android.inputmethodservice.InputMethodService. This API provides much of the basic implementation for an input method, in terms of managing the state and visibility of the input method and communicating with the currently visible activity.A good [...]
AndExplorer (Version 1.0BETA1)
AndExplorer is a file manager for Android devices. It allows browsing files and folders stored on device and sdcard. It can sort by name, size and date. Rename, delete, create folder features are available. It is able to uncompress ZIP, GZIP and TAR files too. It can be called from another application through Intent facilities. Read more @ [...]
Acer Android Arriving In ‘09
We’ve talked a lot here at Phandroid about mobile convergence and one trend that persists is computer hardware manufacturers yearning to jump into the mobile phone game. It seems Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo all want a piece of the Android Phone action. Acer doesn’t intend to play follow the leader. Following up on last [...]
$100 Android Netbooks Coming?
Skytone, a company predominantly known for low-cost children’s laptops might be among the first to release and Android netbook. Called the Alpha 680, it will offer a 7″ LCD screen, 800 x 480 WVGA with a touch pad. It is promised to be available in white, black, yellow pink and red, ranging in price from $100-$200. Other specs [...]
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