How to: view core Android Java sources in Eclipse
I don’t know why this is not really showing in Google Search results, but if you want to step through the core Android Java code in your Eclipse project, finally there’s a legitimate and very convenient solution that is a part of ADT-Addons project. The …
Android Market cuts active installs
Yesterday I was unpleasantly surprised when I saw active counters on my seemingly ever rising HireAdroid drop a whopping 30 percent. This morning I visited the Android Market forums to find out if I was the only unlucky developer experiencing this drop, and low and …
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Droidin Delivers LinkedIn Groups on Android
LinkedIn announced on June 30th that they would open up support of a long-awaited groups API. DroidIn has become the first Android app to take advantage of the new tools and issued an update V4.1 in the Android Market. What’s the big deal? This has …
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Google IO registration
I’m still sitting in my chair, shaking. I haven’t feel this way since I bought my lucky ticket to see Rolling Stones back in 2005. Yes, I did it – I will go to Google IO 2011! But why in age of the “cloud” it had to be such an awful, painful experience?
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Nexus One and Nexus S Receive OTA Updates
Coming home from the office I was pleasantly interrupted by an update notification on my good ol’ Nexus One. Alas, turned out the update was numbered 2.2.2 so no Gingerbread in sight. I’m happy to report though that my rooted N1 took the update with …
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Beta Test This! LinkedIn joins Android Revolution
Out of all major social players, LinkedIn was perhaps the most popular service missing the Android boat. As Facebook and Twitter keep putting out new updates to their already existing apps, LinkedIn was left on the outside, looking in. The wait is over – LinkedIn …
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Android Market: Behold, The Change is Coming
I just received very interesting notification from Android Market notifying me that the developer console will be out of service Nov 18 for whole 6 hours. Now, I’ve had apps on the market for almost 2 years now and I’ve never before received notifications like …
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Android Market: Hiccups Continue
On the Android Market forums there is an uproar: many apps significantly suddenly dropped their counts. We already covered Market issues twice in the past week and Google even apologized to developers. However last night the first thing I noticed was that my “Credit Card” …
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Is Something Happening to Your Android Market?
I’m thinking that something is brewing on Android market. Yesterday afternoon I noticed that order of many apps in the “Productivity” category had changed drastically. The last I checked, at least one of my apps – Hire*A*Droid is missing comments entirely (it had about 350). …
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Adobe Reader Arrives for Android
So I just happened to notice Adobe Reader in the Android Market a few minutes ago, sitting there with less than 50 downloads! What a sneaky little product release that was, Adobe. This marks only the second title from the company, following last year’s Photoshop …
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The Power of Anonymous; or Who Will Protect the Developer?
All of us who have apps on the Android Market have also experienced down-voting, spam and ugly comments. I think I just about nailed the worst case scenario. Here’s the scoop.
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Google Really is Giving Away Free Nexus One and Droid Handsets to Developers
Last night I was both very pleasantly surprised and somewhat scared when I got email with the following snippet: “Due to your contribution to the success of Android Market, we would like to present you with a brand new Android device as part of our …
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Archos 5 – Designed by Engineers?
I got my free Archos 5 and spent a very lovely evening playing with my new toy. To be honest, I have very mixed feelings about the device, especially since I got it practically free. I’m hoping that the good people of Archos will read …
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Archos 5 gets Firmware Update
Recently, I turned on my Archos 5 tablet for my nightly reading and found notification for the firmware update (1.7.77). Alas it’s still Android 1.6. The update went without a glitch but if you are wondering what was includes here’s rundown from the Archos support …
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