Oct

2010

T-Mobile issues a statement regarding the G2′s anti-rooting system

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged G2, HTC, Root, rooting, T-Mobile

If you haven’t heard the news yet, the G2 comes pre-loaded with an anti-rooting mechanism which essentially resets the phone and restores the stock software when any changes are made to the phone’s OS. T-Mobile has issued the following statement regarding their decision to prevent modifying the stock software: Code-Level Modifications to the G2 As [...]

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Oct

2010

Amazon App Store a Reality claims WSJ

by Jesse Bauer
tagged amazon, Android, Android Market, AndroidMarket, app store, AppStore, Kindle, pad, software, tablet, WSJ

Just when we thought we heard enough about carriers creating their own Android App Stores, WSJ claims to have a document from Amazon which confirms their intent on releasing an Amazon App Store. The document makes a couple of points which developers need to keep a focus on however. Firstly, Amazon will beat any app [...]

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Oct

2010

Android Market travels to several New Countries

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, Android developers, Android Development, Android Market, app, apps, development, market, update

Android worldwide domination is in full effect as Android paid apps are now available in 18 more countries around the world. Android end users in these countries can now pay for apps through the latest Android Market App which is being pushed out as a silent self-update within the next few days. These new countries [...]

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Oct

2010

Android Hacks: Remap Rosie home screen buttons on your HTC Evo

by Dustin Karnes

From the genius minds over at xda-developers comes a new hack: you can now remap the Rosie buttons on your HTC Evo. The Rosie buttons are the the on-screen buttons on the bottom bar of your Evo home screen. One of the main complaints about HTC Sense (HTC’s UI overlay for their devices) has always [...]

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Oct

2010

Qualcomm releasing Augmented Reality SDK beta

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, Android Development, Augmented Reality, Beta, development, qualcomm, sdk

So if you’ve read the latest Daniel Suarez novels involving the “Darknet” and believe that all we need to twist our visual world into another reality is to change the way we view things, literally, then Qualcomm has what you’re looking for. Qualcomm is releasing its hyped Augmented Reality SDK where developers can take a [...]

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Oct

2010

Eric Schmidt says Android could eventually be a $10 billion/year business

by Chris Moor
tagged Android, Eric Schmidt, Google

Well now that we know that Android is the most popular US mobile OS, (activating 200,000+ phones a day) this news doesn’t seem that surprising. Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt recently confirmed to Newsweek that Android is already a profitable entity. Now this doesn’t mean that all of the profits com from Android directly, but with [...]

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Oct

2010

Adobe Air for Android launching October 8

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged Adobe Air, Android, Big TX Android BBQ, October 8

More news from this weekend’s Big TX Android BBQ! We’ve just received confirmation from Adobe that Adobe Air for Android will be available on October 8. We learned a few things from yesterday’s Adobe Air Panel Q & A, including the fact that it runs natively in Android, and not on top of Java. We’re still acquiring more [...]

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Oct

2010

Android 2.2 installed on one-third of all Android phones

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged Android, applications, development

Google has released the current Android distribution figures, which reveal that Froyo is becoming more prominent. As it stands, one-third of all Android phones are running on 2.2, with Android 2.1 still dominating the market with a little over 40%.

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Oct

2010

Amazon axes $99 developer fee for the first year

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged amazon, amazon android app store, developers

The Amazon Android application store saga continues. The online retailer has sent out yet another email to developers, this time announcing that they are waiving the $99 developer fee for the first year. It seems they are trying to bait some developers who may be weary about publishing their applications with Amazon. It is not [...]

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Oct

2010

Adobe AIR Panel Q&A at Big TX Android BBQ

by Dustin Karnes
tagged adobe, air, Android, dev, development, flash

In a Q&A session with Jon Campos, Dallas FLEX User Group Manager and Adobe Community Professional, we got some pretty good info on up and coming features from Adobe for the Android platform. If you’re an Android developer, programmer, coder, or just a code geek, be sure to check out our rundown after the break, [...]

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