JOYity has brought social based gaming to a whole new level with Android. JOYity uses GPS to help users play adventure-based games with other people in the real world like it has never been done before. JOYity is not one but three games in a single application. Once you download the application you can either choose [...]
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Android Community Week in Review – Week 43 2008
Just before the launch of the T-Mobile G1 this week, Google decided to pull almost all of the applications in the Android Market. It turns out that they were pre-production applications that were only there for demo purposes only. It was not long before applications returned to the Android Market in completed form. Myspace was [...]
AndroidDevCamp 1 being held in Dallas
Today an event called AndroidDevCamp is being held in Dallas Texas to help developers prepare for further developing for the Android platform. Developers will be able to learn from not one but two of the Android Developers Challenge winners. Jason Hudgins, developer that worked on Tunewiki (and that is now a part of ShopSavvy), along with Rylan [...]
Android Market charging for apps in early 2009
Today the Android Market was officially launched, as the Android Developers Blog reported. They wrote a lot about what is expected for developers in order to bring their applications to market. Developers will be able to upload their applications on Monday, October 27th when they have wrapped up all the details. Google requires registration and a [...]
T-Mobile G1 hands-on: Award-Winning Android App feature ShopSavvy
We had a little bit of time today to get an exclusive one on one time with the G1 for our Android Community members, at a special developers event held in Dallas. The company behind Google Application Challenge award winning app ShopSavvy, Big In Japan – were there, demonstrating the software in action on a [...]
Big in Japan wins again: $700k startup funding
Big in Japan’s bank account will be receiving its second major deposit of the year, as the company secured $700,000 of startup funding from Architel, an IT infrastructure company that also offers investment in early-stage Dallas-based tech firms. The money will be used both to develop ShopSavvy, the app Big in Japan are best [...]
Big in Japan Exclusive Video Interview
Android Community had an invite to spend some time with developers Big in Japan, the team behind GoCart which was one of the ten apps to win $275,000 in Google’s Android Developer Challenge. Ewdison Then, our resident Linux expert, made the trip over to their Dallas offices to ask them about the motivation behind GoCart, why [...]
Congrats to Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I
Google officially announced the winners of Android Developer Challenge. Out of 50 teams of finalists, 10 teams received a $275,000 award each and 10 teams received a $100,000 award each. Congratulations to everyone. $275,000 Award Recipients cab4me Konrad Huebner, Henning Boeger Ever been looking for a cab? cab4me is the answer. Anywhere. Anytime. Read more CompareEverywhere Jeffrey Sharkey Shop smarter using your phone. [...]
World’s first Android phone: call it T-Mobile G1
I’m willing to bet the farm that the world’s first Android-powered phone is called T-Mobile G1. I’ve been watching all the domain names starting with T-MobileG1.com through T-MobileG5.com over the past week. Up until today, there wasn’t any Name Servers attached to T-MobileG1.com and G1Phone.com! By performing a simple whois lookup, it lists ns1.logicworks.net and [...]
Android Roadmap updated; Developer Challenge II news in Q4
Google has updated its Android roadmap with more information for developers, including details on the upcoming second round of the Developer Challenge. Following this week’s release of v0.9 of the Android SDK, the next significant roll-outs will take place during September as the company tweaks the open-source platform, in response to bug sightings and developer [...]
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