Archive for May, 2009
What If Ubuntu Could Run Android Applications? It Can.
The talk about Android Netbooks has been mostly just that - talk - with the practical implementations limited and the commercially available products zero. But an innovative execution environment that allows Android Applications to run on Ubuntu could mean the first real “Android Netbook” isn’t an Android Netbook at all. The [...]
Google I/O Predictions – Reader Submission
The following article is a reader submission from Ben Feldman. You can follow him on twitter at BenFeldman. We’re posting the article untouched, in it’s entirety. These are his predictions for the Google I/O conference which kicks off in a matter of hours. Google I/O 2009 is just around the corner. Literally. It starts tomorrow, [...]
Rock On Music Player (Version 1.2.8)
RockOn is a music player for Android. It has a nice all-graphic UI interface making it the player of choice if you prefer browsing your music library by album art. The main features are: * Cool album art navigation UI * Location-aware concert info of your library's artists (uses Last.FM API). * One of the most effective album art [...]
An (Almost) Complete NES Emulator
Don’t let the title fool you, this is the real deal. Sans a few bugs you can finally relive your childhood years of summer days wasted in front of the boob-tube playing Zelda and Super Mario Brothers on your Android device. You have two options for using the emulator. There is the lite version, which is a full working version of the [...]
Google I/O Contest Winners!
Congratulations to Fritz269, baolongnt and peted20! These users have been selected as the winners of our Google I/O Developers’ Conference contest! Each will receive one registration code to register to attend the Google I/O contest in San Francisco, CA. They were picked because their favorite Android memory and their reasons for going to [...]
TuneWiki Introduces Social Blip Technology with New Android Cupcake Release
TuneWiki’s Social Music Player App for Latest Google Phone Offers Worldwide Connectivity in Music and Lyrics through Facebook, Twitter and Email (San Francisco, CA) May 26th, 2009—TuneWiki, the next generation social media music player, today announced its new app for Google’s Android 1.5, Cupcake. This new version of the app features Blip [...]
Android Icon Guidelines
For our second post in our series on Android UI, we're releasing our Icon Design Guidelines and an Android Icon Templates Pack. These should make it a lot easier for you (or your designer) to develop all the icons your applications need, so they fit with the other icons in the Android environment.The Icon Design Guidelines document describes how [...]
Samsung Galaxy i7500 Rocks Out On Video
We’ve read a lot about the Samsung Galaxy AKA Samsung i7500, we’ve seen the specs and pictures, but what better way to get a better glimpse at the device than a couple sweet videos? The first one is more of a picturesque look done by HDBlog.it with some sweet music blasting in the background: Rock On! Now that we’ve got you all [...]
Android Around the World: China Getting HTC OPhone
Android is about to land in a big way. China Mobile, home to over 415 million subscribers, will soon be offering Android-based handsets. The founding member of the Open Handset Alliance is expected to carry a modified version of the HTC Magic. Called the OPhone due to it’s open nature, the Wall Street Journal reports (subscription) that [...]
No Smoke! (Version 1.2)
Smoking is bad for health. I'm sure that you know it as well as I do. And I'm sure that you feel difficult to quit smoking,although you really want to quit. So this is what NoSmoke exists for. When you feel like having a cigarette,just run this application on an Android phone. It will help you in making the dicision to quit smoking. Especially [...]
