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Securing Android applications with the License Verification Library

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

A while back, we brought you a story about the Android Market licensing server, and the ways in which it can help developers protect their

Android Market licensing service bypassed, Google remains optimistic

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

The Android Developers blog featured a post today regarding the current state of the new Android Market licensing server, which aims to cut down on the

Is Google enabling piracy on Android?

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Swedish tech blog Royal Pingdom has posted an article about piracy in the Android community that Google should take note of. In the article, they

Tumblr app released on the Android Market

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Tumblr, the popular micro-blogging site, released an Android application to the Market over the weekend.  The app gives you all the features you know and

Fake TweetDeck app pops up in the Market

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

TweetDeck has had one hell of a week dealing with unofficial versions of their highly anticipated Android beta application.  Yesterday, the company became aware of

LauncherPro Plus adds SMS widget

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

Users of the popular home replacement app LauncherPro Plus were treated to an SMS widget today, which came in the form of a Market  update.

CPS2 emulator removed from the Android Market

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

The Capcom PlayStation 2 emulator has been pulled from the Android Market for copyright infringement.  The emulator was only available on the Market for a

BioLock brings iris and facial-recognition security to Android

Monday, August 9th, 2010

I bet you thought retina scans were something only done in the movies  Blue Planet Apps, makers of the new BioLock Android app, will soon

5 things still wrong with Android

Monday, August 9th, 2010

The Android OS is a lot like people (or anything else for that matter) in the sense that it is by no means perfect.  There

Instantly Open URL’s From Your Phone in Chrome

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Have you ever been checking out a really cool website on your phone and then realized some cool feature would just be way better on

Adobe Reader for Android Hits a Million Downloads

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

On their blog earlier today, Adobe announced that their Adobe Reader app has reached the coveted 1 million downloads mark on the Android Market. Along

Licensing service for Android apps should cut down piracy

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Think you’re pretty slick by just finding the stand-alone APK’s for apps that you should’ve paid for? Obviously the developers of those apps are sick

Android apps soon to be charged to your carrier bill

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Ever been frustrated because you wanted an app, but didn’t have the money in your account to pay for it right then and there? Well,

New Payment Options May Be Available For Android Market Soon

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Here are some facts for you up and coming Android Devs: As of right now, the Android Market has the most free apps available compared

SwiftKey Beta Exceeds 100,000 Downloads in First Week

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Earlier, we posted our thoughts on the SwiftKey keyboard, finding it to be excellent in almost every way. Apparently, we aren’t the only ones enamored,

LauncherPro: Now with widgets and a price

Monday, July 19th, 2010

There’s a lot of options when it comes to launchers for your Android device, but the most popular options seem to be ADW and LauncherPro.

Remember The Milk for Android updated, now smarter

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Image Courtesy of Remember The Milk Perhaps you’ve heard of the popular Android app, “Remember The Milk”. This is a task management app that has multi-device

How to enable and use the Android Market in an Android emulator

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

It’s no secret that developers can install an Android emulator on their pc for testing and general Android debauchery. The only real issue? Not being

Palm Graffiti comes to Android

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Hey, remember Graffiti on Palm devices? I have fond memories of trying to scribble out an understandable sentence, only to be greeted with “Skjir89ijsd(VV”… but

Opera Mini 5.1 for Android now official

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Not too terribly long ago, Opera was all over the tech world news. Since then, however, it seems to have slipped back under the radar…

Android App Market Expected to Hit 100,000 This Month

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

According to AndroLib’s reporting, the Android app market has just crossed the 90,000 mark, and at the current rate of growth is expected to cross

Appbrain Adds Ability to Remote Install Apps

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Appbrain has been a popular market substitute for a long time. It allows browsing the market from the computer or via an alternate app

Study Finds Over Half of Android Apps Are Free

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

A new study has found that fifty seven percent of  apps  currently available on the Google Android Market are free, while forty three percent are

HTC reports profits of $268 million over last 3 months

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

If you’re and Android user, I’m sure you have heard of HTC and you might even be using one of their phones as well. With

Review: Aldiko eReader

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

As many of the book-reading Android faithful may know, Amazon is releasing a free Kindle app for the Android platform. While there’s no mention of

MobiTV Coming Soon to Android

Friday, June 25th, 2010

So, along with the Slingplayer Mobile app, there’s apparently some more tasty media happenings in store for the Android. Well known mobile television provider MobiTVhas

A fifth of Android apps malware? Not quite…

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Recently, CNET reported on a study that was done by security-firm SMobile Systems involving Android apps, purporting that a full 20% of Android apps have access to

Google Music Service

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

It looks like Google are going to enter the online music game, with the roll out of a music download service, linked into its search

Google Ignoring App Developers?

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Say it ain’t so! With all the praise Google has been receiving for its Android operating system, the last thing they need is a bunch

Android 1.6 Donut To Bring New Android Market Features

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Google’s Eric Chu has announced several upgrades to the Android Market that will feature in Android 1.6. In a post of the official Android Developers

Android Market Upgrades Coming Soon

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Screenshots showing a new interface for the Android Market have surfaced online this week. The images have been taken by an anonymous user with access

Android Market Gets Some Updates

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

The Android Market Support Team have today sent out an email to Android developers informing them of a number of updates to the Android Market. The

UK Android Market Getting Paid Apps Tomorrow

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

T-Mobile UK have today announced that the UK version of the Android Market will receive access to paid applications from tomorrow. “From tomorrow, UK customers will

Are Android Market Paid Apps Launching This Week?

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article on the future strategy of Microsoft’s cellphone development in which they revealed in the closing paragraph that

Android Market Paid App Updates Scheduled For 2009 Q1

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

In an email circulated to registered members of the Android Market, details of future Android Market updates are revealed along with their deployment schedule which

Pac-Man Most Downloaded Android Market App

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Analysts Medialets have compiled a list of the top 10 most popular downloads from the Android Market for November 2008. Topping the charts with over 250,000

Kogan Unveil ‘Agora’ – The Second Google Phone

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Australian based Kogan Technologies are set to launch the world’s second handset powered by the Google Android operating system. The new ‘Agora’ handset will be available

Android Market – First Weekend Download Analysis

Friday, October 31st, 2008

While Google are keeping the exact download statistics private, mobile advertising network Medialets have been doing some data analysis of their own and have publicised