Applications news, interviews and updates for the Android platform. Including winners and submissions for the Google Android developer challenge.
Google Labs Release Gesture Search App For Android
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Google have released a new Google Labs application that enables Android users to search their phones by drawing letters on their screens.
The new app known
Google Maps Navigation For Android Causes GPS Stocks To Plunge
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Shares in GPS manufacturers Garmin and TomTom fell today following the announcement from Google that upcoming Android handsets will include free navigation software.
The new Google
Pandora Android App Now Available
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Pandora have today announced that their popular mobile app Pandora Radio is now available to download from the Android Market.
The Pandora Android app supports the
Official Facebook Android App Now Available
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
The official Facebook Android application is now available to download from the Android Market.
We haven't had a chance to have a good play with the
Spotify For Android Now Available On The Android Market
Monday, September 7th, 2009
Spotify have today announced the launch of the official Spotify for Android Application. The long awaited Android App was first unveiled back in May, and
Rhapsody For Android App Coming Soon
Monday, August 24th, 2009
Real Networks have today revealed that an Android app for their Rhapsody Music service is currently in development and will be available soon.
Rhapsody is a
Google’s Andy Rubin Speaks Out On Android VoIP Claims
Monday, August 24th, 2009
Andy Rubin, Google's VP of Mobile Platforms has responded publicly to inaccurate claims published in an article by USA Today.
The published article made several claims
Droidify Spotify App Removed From The Android Market
Monday, August 24th, 2009
Unofficial Spotify Android app, Droidify, appears to have been removed from the Android Market.
Created by a third-party developer, the Droidify application made use of Spotify's
Google Labs Release Listen For Android App
Monday, August 24th, 2009
Google Labs have released a new Android application called Listen. The Listen app allows Android users to quickly and easily find podcasts and other web
Facebook To Release Official Android App As Early As This Week?
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Whilst there are a number of unofficial Facebook apps available on the Android Market, Android users will be pleased to hear that Facebook is expected
CoPilot Live For Android Now Available
Monday, June 29th, 2009
CoPilot have today officially launched the first full turn-by-turn satellite navigation app for the Android platform.
Available to download from the Android Market, CoPilot Live features
Adobe Flash Player 10 For Android Due In October
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
During a recent earnings call, Adobe CEO Shantanu Naraye revealed to investors that a beta version of Flash Player 10 for mobiles will be released
Layar Augmented Reality Browser Video
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Engadget have been lucky enough to get some hands-on time with SPRXmobile's augmented reality browser for Android, and they seem impressed.
The software looks rock-solid and
Layar – Mobile Augmented Reality Browser App
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
SPRXmobile have today announced the first "mobile augmented reality browser" available for Android. The application known as "Layar" is a free app that aims to
Android eReader App Coming “Mid To Late Summer”
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Scott Pendergrast from Fictionwise has revealed that an Android version of eReader will be ready in "mid to late summer".
The Android eReader app won't be
HP Developing “Friendlee” An Intelligent Mobile Social Network
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Hewlett Packard are currently developing a mobile-based social network that will be able to intelligently recommend and prioritize contacts based on caller usage patterns.
The Friendlee
ShopSavvy Missing From The Android Market?
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
It appears that a number of Android users are having trouble finding the popular Shop Savvy application in the Android Market.
The application has long been
Google Release Places Directory App For Android
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Released as a Google Labs Product, the Places Directory app enables users to find and browse nearby places and services such as restaurants, movie theatres,
Spotify For Android Mobile Client Revealed
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
The popular free music streaming service Spotify have unveiled a mobile client during the Google I/O conference that is taking place this week.
Demonstrated on a
Canonical Developers Aim To Get Android Apps Running On Ubuntu
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Canonical are currently working on a prototype Android execution environment that will enable Android apps to run on an Ubuntu system. The Canonical developers unveiled
Google Product Search Now Includes Android Barcode Scanner
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Google have today announced that their recently updated Google Product Search for Android now includes barcode scanning support.
As the Android web browser doesn't support barcode
eBuddy Android Application Now Available
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
eBuddy, the popular instant messaging utility is now available to download free from the Android Market.
The application allows users to easily communicate across a wide
Star Droid Star Gazing App From Google
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Google are planning to release a star gazing application for the Android platform in the next few weeks. Star Droid will allow users to use
PhoneFusion To Bring Visual Voicemail To The G1
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
PhoneFusion have today announced their upcoming Fusion Voicemail Plus application that will bring visual voicemail to the G1 handset.
This free Android application will allow G1
CompanionLink Releases Outlook Syncing App For Android
Monday, November 10th, 2008
CompanionLink Software have today released an application that offers two-way synchronization for Microsoft Outlook and the T-Mobile G1 .
The CompanionLink Software for Android will
Android Developer Challenge Winners Announced
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Back in May Google announced the first round winners of the Android Developer Challenge, since that date the winning teams have been working hard on
Interview With ADC Finalists CallACab
Monday, June 30th, 2008
We recently caught up with the creators of the ADC winning application, CallACab. The team discussed the challenges and advantages of developing application for the
Interview With ADC Winners Commandro
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Our series of interviews with Android Developer Challenge top 50 finalists continues, this time we posed our questions to the creators of Commandro - a
Interview With ADC Winner Eco2go
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Next up in our series of interviews with the winners of the ADC comes the Eco2go Android application. The application has received a lot of
Interview With BreadCrumbz
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
In the first of what will be a series of interviews with the top 50 Android Developer Challenge finalists, we got in contact with the
Google Announce AndroidGlobalTime For The Apps For Android Project
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Over on the official Android blog, Google have announced a new open source application that will be part of their apps-for-android project.
AndroidGlobalTime, developed by a
Maps And Location Based Applications Hold The ADC Majority
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Google's Official Google Android developer blog has revealed yet more information on the Android Developer Challenge as they begin to bring to a close the
Google Reveal The Top 50 Android Applications (46 Public)
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Here's a rundown of the top 46 Android developer challenge winners who made the final 50. If you're wondering 4 of the entries opted out
Tune Wiki Unveil Android Prototype
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The hugely popular Tune Wiki has announced has a media player version for the android platform. Key features will include an easy-to-use iPhone style interface
AutoHTN Brings Home Automation To Android
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Here at Talk Android we've covered many of the leading Android applications currently in development ranging from simple 2-D video games to more complex mobile
7 Android Applications That Will Make Your Friends More Annoying
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Here's 7 of the best/scariest mobile social networking applications currently in development for the Android platform.
A Look At A Handful Of The Android Developer Challenge Entries
Monday, April 14th, 2008
To mark the closing day of the Android Developer Challenge we thought we'd cover some of the contest entries that have been emailed into us
Webtide Reveal Android Jetty Webserver
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Webtide's open source Jetty webserver has now been ported over to the Google Android platform. The i-Jetty technology now enables mobile users support for AJAX
Android Developer Blog Release ‘Linkify’ Tech Article
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
The official Android developer blog have released the first in a series of technical articles about the recently unveiled WikiNotes for Android application pack.
This first
6 Of The Coolest Android Applications
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Ever since the release of Android SDK developers have been in a frenzy dreaming up and developing all kinds of applications for the Android platform.
Ranging
Android Forums- Custom Backgrounds
- Android port available for Freescale i.mx233
- Windows 7
- Android Formatted Text Display
- I'm a Droid, and Android 2.2 is my idea. (call Log suggestion)
- Opening and Closing a File from Applcation in the default editor.
- Why are my programs running all the time?????
- Quadit - one of the most addictive games and for free !
- Make phone ring from my PC?
- Buying your apps/games (also hiring)
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