Author Archives: Vincent Nguyen

Meet the leads for Android platform

Android Fireside Chat is a Q&A session that is often considered the best part of Google IO, as it gives developers a chance to ask what’s on their minds as well as talk to the product engineering teams. Come tell the team what you want, discuss issues and design decisions, and hear the team’s thoughts …

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Android prototype Q&A video and transcript plus hardware details

After wowing the IO conference crowd with their Android prototype demonstration, the developers sat down for a Q&A session.  The question on everyones’ lips was what exactly the demo hardware consisted of, and who made it; while the answer to the latter was under NDA, we were given some details of the former.  Based on a …

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First LIVE images and videos of FULLSCREEN Android demos!

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Google’s latest Android prototype is miles improved over the versions we last saw. Back at CES the GUI was clunky and the whole thing looked relatively primative; Google themselves asked us to keep an open mind and instead concentrate on the OS’ potential. Now, they’ve brought out a device that you could, frankly, mistake for …

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Google IO keynote: “Client, Connectivity, and the Cloud”

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Google will be announcing quite a bit of news over the next two days, starting with the opening keynote and a press conference this morning. The keynote will be given by Vic Gundotra, VP of engineering, at 9:30am in Moscone West.  The title of the keynote will be  “Client, Connectivity, and the Cloud.” After the …

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New AndroidGlobalTime app added to the apps-for-android project

AndroidGlobalTime has been added to the apps-for-android project. It is a 3D world clock open source application developed by an engineer at Google. It’s intended to serve as an illustrative of how to use the OpenGL ES APIs in your Android Applications. Just a quick word on how to use AndroidGlobalTime. When you launch it, …

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Google IO: Android Community will be there – are you going?

Hey everyone – I just got my Google IO registration email this morning.  I’m planning on attending and providing coverage (video and blog) the following sessions in addition to the keynote at 9:30AM on 5/28.  If you’re attending, make sure to shoot me an email or post your reply in this thread.  I’m looking forward …

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ADC finalists gets early access to SDKs

Google notified the top 50 teams from the Android Developers Challenge to explain some of the details of Phase II of the ADC. Google is going to be using these top 50 teams as beta testers for new SDK snapshots. NDA prohibits testers from leaking new features or screen shots of any sorts. Google has …

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Android Developer Challenge Part 1, Round 1 announced

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Congratulations to the Round 1 winners of the Android Developer Challenge. Out of the 50 winners, only 46 are listed because the other 4 declined to disclose their project. Given the publicity this list gives, it sure is silly to do such a thing! AndroidScan – Scan is an Android application that finds pricing and …

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Quake running on Qualcomm Android prototype handset

Qualcomm have demonstrated an Android prototype cellphone capable of playing Quake, and PHONE Magazine have the video of it in action! The device, which uses Qualcomm’s 3D hardware graphics acceleration to give 30fps VGA gaming, is intended to demonstrate the potential for gaming and GUI design on the Android platform.

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