Dylan Bailey

Google Honeycomb Showcase Wrap-Up

By Dylan Bailey
on 2 Feb, 2011

This morning has come and gone and now the world is filled with more knowledge of Google's upcoming Honeycomb tablet OS. We spent the day at Google and witnessed all they had to show as well as got some hands-on time with the devices! Check out our extensive coverage after the break!

SwiftKey Introduced for Honeycomb Tablets

By Dylan Bailey
on 2 Feb, 2011

Today is the official day of tablets. With Google's Honeycomb showcase and the influx in tablet news, it only makes sense that popular Android keyboard software, SwiftKey, will be hitting tablets.

CNN Showcases Exclusive App For Honeycomb

By Dylan Bailey
on 2 Feb, 2011

One of the best features of the Android platform is the ease of development. Most of the APIs you need are clearly laid out by Google to help you create a truly powerful application. This is just what CNN did with Google's Render Script and APIs to create a very visual news application for Android.

Android Community App Running on Honeycomb, Scaling of Apps Looks Great

By Dylan Bailey
on 2 Feb, 2011

One of the biggest concerns for developers as they ready their applications for a bigger screen (and operating system) is how it will scale with a larger screen. We started our hands-on time at the Google Honeycomb event testing just this with none other than the official Android Community application.

Google: “Where’s Cee-Lo?”

By Dylan Bailey
on 2 Feb, 2011

Among all of the developer previews and Honeycomb showcasing, recording artist, Cee-Lo Green was expected to make an early appearance under the Google Talk name "The Lady Killer" today on stage. He wasn't online when Google went to demo video chat, so they had to resort to other methods of showing off the system.

Honeycomb Featuring ‘Render Script’ for Hardware Accelerated 3D Graphics

By Dylan Bailey
on 2 Feb, 2011

At Google's presentation today on the Honeycomb operating system, they were quick to point out at just how smoothly the animations were running. All of these animations were possible by the new Render Script that's built into the Honeycomb OS.

In-App Billing Coming to Android This Quarter

By Dylan Bailey
on 2 Feb, 2011

The final point at today's Google event was that Google is readying the ability to support in-app purchases. In a very great move for developers, the ability will allow them to charge for additional levels, consumables, and other after-purchase needs.

Android Market Web store Announced, Purchase Applications On the Desktop, Send to Phone

By Dylan Bailey
on 2 Feb, 2011

The Android Market Web store has been announced and is ready for release today. The system will allow users to purchase and download content from a web browser and then send the applications to their device. To get to the web store, navigate to http://market.android.com. Here you can browse applications just as you would on an Android device. When you click on the "Buy" button on the web page, you will be presented with the option for which device you would like to send the application to. The purchase dialog would then appear asking to confirm the purchase. Once the credit card transaction completes, the application will be sent (via cloud) to the devices that were selected. [gallery]

Google Talk Video Chat Demoed at Honeycomb Showcase

By Dylan Bailey
on 2 Feb, 2011

Google is pushing video chat for the tablet market. Honeycomb will have video-chat built it with Google Talk. Something that has been quite overlooked is Google Talk's video stabilization. They not only developed this for a better end-user experience, but the technology will help with bandwidth, which will help great amounts when on a cellular network.

‘Google Body’ Coming to Honeycomb

By Dylan Bailey
on 2 Feb, 2011

Google today demoed its new application Google Body. Based off of hardware-accelerated 3D rendering software running on Honeycomb, it will bring human anatomy to the masses.