As you all know by now, the Android OS from Google is not only been used on cellphones, nowadays you can find it in many other devices. Back at the end of September, we brought to you some new info on a gaming handheld device called ODROID, which runs Android. This time, we bring more news [...]
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HTC Dev Phone gets Android 1.6 firmware
Android OS 1.6 for developers has been released, though frustratingly you’ll need an Android Developer Phone – aka one of HTC’s patterned, unlocked Dreams – in order to install it. The release gives developers an opportunity to get to grips with the latest build of Android, prior to OS 1.6 being pushed to consumer devices. Android [...]
Android Community Week in Review: Week 18 2009
After weeks of relative silence from mainstream Android hardware, the past seven days has seen two headline devices reach us. The HTC Magic launched in Europe, the second Android smartphone to hit the market, while Samsung announced their first Android handset in the shape of the I7500. There’s not much we didn’t already know about the [...]
Cupcake is catastrophe, claims Big in Japan dev
Everyone’s looking forward to Cupcake, right? Not so fast, says Big in Japan – the team behind the popular ShopSavvy application – Android 1.5 presents more than a few problems for developers. According to Alexander Muse, applications currently running on Android won’t necessarily be compatible with Cupcake 1.5; that means a mad rush to download [...]
Android 1.5 Cupcake released for Devs; Video Demo
HTC and Google have released Android 1.5 Cupcake for owners of the Android Dev Phone, available as a free download from the manufacturers site. Cupcake adds video recording to Android, including one-touch uploads to YouTube, plus a new on-screen QWERTY keyboard. There are also tweaks to the browser, predominantly to increase speed in rendering, zooming and scrolling. Arsen [...]
Early-look SDK available for Android 1.5
Cupcake has been doing the news rounds for a little while now. What is great news is the official unveiling of Android 1.5 that fully incorporates the Cupcake branch.
Android Market merchant system fixed, says Google
After would-be Android developers reported problems registering their merchant accounts with their developer accounts, and as such were prevented from releasing paid-apps into the Android Market, Google informs us that the situation has been addressed. According to a Google employee on the official support forums, the ongoing issue has been resolved. “The issue you were having [...]
Android Market paid-app system blocking new merchants
Android Community is hearing from developers who are experiencing problems linking Merchant accounts to their Android Developer accounts, and as such are unable to list paid apps on the Android Market. Multiple developers are reporting seeing the error message “Sorry, we could not setup your merchant account. Please try again later” multiple times over the [...]
Google Developer G1 loses paid-app access
Google has blocked access to paid Android applications to the very people who most likely would have vested interest in accessing them: developers using the officially-sanctioned unlocked G1. Google released the Developer version of the G1 back in December 2008, priced at $399, making it available to anybody willing to pay the $25 developers’ registration [...]
Android Bootcamp developer training: What’s the best way to learn?
One of the key factors in Android’s favor is the fact that it’s open-source, meaning developers are free to code their own apps for the platform and go on to release them through the Android Market. What, though, if your ambitions and ideas are more impressive than your coding skills? Interestingly, there’s a growing industry [...]
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