Google has launched in-app billing on the Android Market, allowing developers to offer extra levels in their games, additional services and virtual goods in their apps. The system will also enable try-and-buy, where apps can be offered free to trial and then activated in full without demanding a whole new download. As you’d expect, Google …
Heck yeah, money! That’s what every developer likes to hear, especially if they want time and resources to create the games and apps they want to make on platforms that are willing to dish out the cash. In this case, it’s not the platform that’s paying the case, it’s a couple of powerhouses known as …
![Google I/O Sends Out Last Call [WIN TICKETS]](http://cdn.androidcommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/pthumbs/googleiochallengethumb_.png)
The official Google Code blog has sent out a call for all those that don’t yet have tickets to Google I/O, are developers, and still WANT tickets. Instead of just giving the remaining tickets away, however, Google has decided to launch this “Last Call for Google I/O,” a contest that will run ten days, starting …
Android and its fragmentation has long been the discussion of many of its competitors as well as our own users. As much as we’d all like to agree, or disagree, there is some fragmentation that we all can at least agree on. With so many types, models, screen sizes, and CPU speeds being some large …
Google has released the final Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK, complete with finalized APIs, on the eve of the first Honeycomb-based tablet being released. Developers now have the final set of tools to code for the Motorola XOOM and subsequent Android 3.0 slates, and the new API level is 11. The Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform highlights …
![NOOKcolor Root for DIY in-Auto Awesomeness [Video]](http://cdn.androidcommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/pthumbs/Screen-shot-2011-02-22-at-2.11.44-PM-540x290thumb_.png)
Oh you didn’t know that NOOKcolor had been rooted and taken far beyond its innocent book-reading beginnings? Oh it’s been brought far, far beyond. In a video posted by juicedigital, a rooted version of the Barnes & Noble Android tablet is shown to not only be rocking pretty hard playing music, surfing the internet, and …
![Behold, the Google Pod [Video Tour]](http://cdn.androidcommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/pthumbs/DSC00980-540x405thumb_.jpg)
We’re here still at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona and we’ve filmed for all you non-travelers a short walkthrough of Google’s magnificent presence in Building 8 of the convention. This “booth” is either the largest or one of the largest exhibits in the entire convention, and certainly many people’s favorite. I’ll get into a …
![Honeycomb Renderscript Detailed [The Balls]](http://cdn.androidcommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/pthumbs/theballs-540x302thumb_.png)
The following is a nutshelled rundown of what Renderscript is, and what it does. Renderscript is a brand new feature that was introduced, but not fully explained during the official Android 3.0 Honeycomb event. What Renderscript is involved in is graphics. Renderscript is a new API that’ll deal with high-performance 3D rendering as well as …
If you’re the kind of person who likes to break your Android device down to build it back up in your own image, you know about ClockworkMod and ROM Manager. The fellows involved in this project have done massive workings on the insides of all manner of Android devices and they’ll be recorded in the …
There is a permission inside the Android OS that, when called upon, can brick a phone. Should you fear this permission? No. It is essentially completely disabled in modern versions of Android, and even when it was able to take effect, only system apps were able to use it. Since it did at one time …
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