Archive for April, 2009
K9 (Version 0.108)
K9 is an experimental fork of the core android POP/IMAP client. Primarily, K9 is focused on making it easy to chew through large volumes of email. It's our hope that K9 leads to improvements in the core Android mail client. Read more @ AndAppStore.com New Listings
Use Your G1 As… A Metal Detector?
Here’s a case of an app that we won’t believe really works until we try it for ourselves. The guys over at the Italian Android site HDblog.it have put together a little video of an app for the G1 which turns it into a metal detector. Don’t even ask us how it works because we have no clue. Is it a ruse? Is it an app that [...]
Talking Live Folders and GLSurfaceView
Romain Guy and Jack Palevich have dropped by the official Android Developers blog to talk new features in Android 1.5. As part of the recent series of tips and tutorials, Romain Guy discusses what to expect with Live Folders, while Jack explains what GL SurfaceView means to developers. Live Folders display all your contacts, bookmarks, email, [...]
Android Around the World: T-Mobile Germany Says Cupcake in May
We’re so ready for our cupcake we can’t take it anymore. That, and we’re tired of hearing about it too. Just drop it on us, why dontcha? According to T-Mobile Germany, the software update is headed to G1 owners next month. As of right now, it’s only for the German folks. The US is still playing the waiting game. In [...]
Introducing GLSurfaceView
GLSurfaceView is a new API class in Android 1.5. GLSurfaceView makes OpenGL ES applications easier to write by:Providing the glue code to connect OpenGL ES to the View system.Providing the glue code to make OpenGL ES work with the Activity life-cycle.Making it easy to choose an appropriate frame buffer pixel format.Creating and managing a separate [...]
Live folders
Live folders have been introduced in Android 1.5 and let you display any source of data on the Home screen without forcing the user to launch an application. A live folder is simply a real-time view of a ContentProvider. As such, a live folder can be used to display all your contacts, your bookmarks, your email, your playlists, an RSS feed, etc. [...]
Flattening The Stack
In Dan Morrill’s Future-Proofing Your Apps post yesterday on the Android Developers blog, he wrote: Due to changes in the View rendering infrastructure, unreasonably deep (more than 10 or so) or broad (more than 30 total) View hierarchies in layouts are now likely to cause crashes. This was always a risk for excessively complex layouts, but [...]
Electric Pocket Puts a Fresh Face on Android, Offering PhoneFace Speed “Photo-Dialing”
Electric Pocket Puts a Fresh Face on Android, Offering PhoneFace Speed “Photo-Dialing” for Android-based Smartphones Wye Valley, UK (MobilityNewswire) April 23, 2009 – Electric Pocket is today announcing a new version of PhoneFace, a speed dial application that launches phone calls, text messages and emails with a simple click on [...]
1 Million G1’s Sold in First 6 Months
T-Mobile’s 3G network might not have near the footprint that other companies have, but that isn’t stopping the G1 from selling well. After 6 months on the streets, the G1 has gone on to sell 1 million units in the US. This is a rather impressive figure for a number of reasons. At the time of the G1 launch, T-Mobile’s 3G [...]
Droid Comic Viewer (Version 1.2.10)
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 [...]
