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Majority of Android Developers Aren’t Coming from Within Google
With the recent launch of iTunes App Store and the buzz about Android Developer Challenge,Ben Lorica at O’Reilly Radar did an interesting study based on statistics of thousand of mailing lists and the occurrences of mobile platform in the messages. The results are quiet interesting. …
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Motorola Suing Former Executive Who Took Apple Job
Motorola is suing a former executive for allegedly violating a non-compete agreement. Mike Fenger quit Motorola in March as senior VP of mobile devices for Europe, Middle East and Africa and moved on to join Apple. He’s now their head of global iPhone sales for …
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Trying to Unring a Bell
There’s a rather big stink right now concerning an interview we conducted with Mr. Orion a few weeks ago. Here’s a quick recap of what happened for any of you who hasn’t seen the backlash. We did an article here on AndroidGuys around a month …
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Android to Fend Off iPhone Using Great Wall of China?
What if Android could tap into that 1 billion potential mobile phone customers in China, while having little threat coming from the iPhone? Sounds impossible right? Well not according to Analysts Bill Hughes who predicts that Android-based phones will increase to 17.1 million in 2009, …
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Fancy ListViews, Part Two
In our last episode, we saw how to create Android ListViews that contain more than just a simple list of strings. In particular, we saw the ultimate form of customization: subclassing an Adapter class, overriding getView(), and returning our own View for each row, perhaps …
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As Usual, Some Tech Bloggers Are Getting it Wrong
There’s a pretty big stink right now about Google letting the top 50 entrants from the Android Developers Challenge get advance use of the latest Android SDK. A lot of tech sites and bloggers are acting as if this was something from out of the …
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Apple Could Fall Victim to Android Like They Did to Microsoft in the 80′s
There’s an interesting commentary over at EETimes by Rick Merritt. The piece is called “Apple should clone the iPhone” and echoes a lot of the same sentiment I have in regards to where Apple could be a few years from now. I’ve said it before …
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34 Weeks of OHA: #25
Company Name: SkyPop How the OHA site classifies them: Software Company What the OHA site says about them: Next generation services for mobile devices. What they do: Back in college we had something called Skypop. Basically, take a 1 litre of your favourite soda (A&W …
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Fancy ListViews, Part One
The classic Android ListView is a plain list of text — solid but uninspiring. This is the first in a series of posts where we will see how to create a ListView with a bit more pizazz. Today, in particular, we will see two techniques …
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He’s Going to be in Trouble
Jean-Baptiste Queru, a member of the Google Android Team, starts out a post in a July 11th posting on Google Groups with “I’m going to get into trouble for this post…†So what was the top topic? The thread dealt with recent accusations of a …
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What is Google Lively and Why Does it Matter?
This week saw yet another Google product hit the virtual streets. This one, Lively, is one of those 20 per cent time projects. You know, the pet projects that Google encourages their employees to work on. So what is it? It’s basically virtual rooms or …
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Have a Mobile Trick You Want to Share? Put it on YouTube
Google Mobile launched a dedicated channel on YouTube last month called Mobile Tricks. It’s for all of you guys and gals out there who have something fun, cool, or funny that you do with your handsets. From the description given, it sounds like you can …
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Inflation is a Good Thing
Before diving into the topic of creating fancy lists in Android, we need to take a short detour into some background material. If you have written activities for Android, you are used to calling setContentView() with the resource ID of some XML layout you specified. …
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34 Weeks of OHA: #24
Company Name: SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. How the OHA site classifies them: Semiconductor Company What the OHA site says about them: SiRF is the leading provider of GPS enabled location platforms for mainstream markets with focus on wireless, automotive, consumer electronic and mobile compute devices. …
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Google’s Conflicts of Interest
As Google gets bigger and bigger, and expanding their reach into different service areas, they are running the risk of conflict of interest. As it has been said before, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO has a seat on the Apple board. He revealed earlier in June, …
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