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Android Market Acting Up for Developers [RESOLVED]
There is something happening on Android Market right now and it is a pretty big deal to developers. As owner of three apps (DroidIn, DroidIn-Lite and Hire*A*Droid) I’ve recently noticed that: Overall and current download numbers are considerably down. Number of reviews is about 1/3 …
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Google Pushes Source Code for Android 2.0 – Developers Push it to G1 Within Hours
Android 2.0 SDK has been available for a few weeks now, but the source code has been held hostage. The word around the campfire is that Google hasn’t been too forthcoming with it. Most handset manufacturers have been stuck messing with Android 1.6 instead. No …
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Duarlander Promises Consistent Android Experiences
The issue of Android fragmentation is a legitimate one but has a much greater effect on developers than consumers. We, as consumers, want your app to work on our phone, period. Your job as a developer is to insure that it does just that. And …
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Developers Challenge Trims to Top 200
With the first round of the ADC 2 completed, it’s time to see who has made the cut. After getting underway back in May, the list has been trimmed to 20 semi-finalists from 10 categories. Over the next weeks (months), Android users will be able …
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Time Travel – Android Style
Time travel has fascinated mankind for thousands of years. Worm holes, space craft, and even ridiculously modded DeLoreans have served as fodder for our quest to control our relationship to the relentless plodding of time. Fortunately, for (all of) mankind, a little personal electronics company …
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Android Starting to Appeal to Business Users
Think back to this about this time last year when the G1 was announced and Android 1.0 features were shown off. One of the first questions asked from the crowd was whether or not Android (or the G1) was going to have Exchange support. The …
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Google Giving out Eclairs Today – Android 2.0 SDK Drops
The official Android Developers blog has announced that the Android 2.0 SDK is now available to developers. The move comes not one moment too soon as the Droid handset is announced tomorrow and presumably hits the street next week. What good is a cutting edge …
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Adding CVS Support to MOTODEV Studio [TIPS & TOOLS]
MOTODEV studio for Android is a wonderful piece of machinery. Unfortunately, as of version 1.0.1, it comes with a number of core Eclipse plugins missing, most notably – no support for CVS. Luckily this can be easily helped.
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HTC Hands Keys to Hero Kingdom Over to Developers
Up until now, developers looking to create a great Hero/Sense ROM have had a difficult time. With no open-source kernel to work with, anyone wanting to mod or customize a Hero build has has to work with limited resources. That will no longer be the …
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Developers Can Now Target By Carrier in Android Market
Up until recently, developers using the Android Market had the ability to target distribution of their apps by specific countries. A recent email sent to developers indicates that they now have the freedom to select a particular wireless provider if they feel so inclined. First, …
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Android Market Monkey Business?
Developers have derided the Android Market virtually since its inception last year. More recently, in SDK 1.6, Google responded to some of the developers’ concerns in a number of ways. Most notably, increased categorization for apps, and the new ability for app publishers to post …
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First Round of ADC 2 Draws to a Close Ahead of Expectations
The Android Developers Blog is reporting that due to an overwhelming response to round one of the Android Developers Challenge 2, they are ending it effective today. The news comes earlier than Google predicted it would as they figured it would take at least two …
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FixIt!: the Market
The competition to dominate the smart-phone market worldwide is played between Nokia/Symbian, RIM/Blackberry, Apple/iPhone, Microsoft/Windows Mobile and at the bottom of the table: Android (but it should better soon). As we all know, there is a good bunch of Android devices coming up in Q4 …
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