Android News Archive

Latest Google Android news and rumors for the mobile platform.

Google have released some of the submission details to their recently expired Android Developer Challenge. In a blog posting on the official Google Android blog, Google revealed that as the April 14th deadline loomed they were receiving submissions at a rate of over 170 applications an hour.
I’m thrilled to share the news that developers from [...]

Speaking at LugRadio Live in San Francisco, Robert Love a Google Developer and Linux kernel contributor spoke at length about the Android platform and what impact it will have on the mobile community. Love noted that the traditional closed nature of the existing mobile platforms failed to nurture any kind of creativity and that Android’s [...]

Today marks the deadline for the Google Android Developer Challenge 1. The developer challenge opened back in January, in an effort to encourage developers to get onboard with the new Android platform. Google’s challenge offered applicants the chance to win $10 million in awards for submitting great mobile apps built on the Android platform.
The [...]

Earlier this week we reported a successful Android installation on a Nokia N810, now it’s the HTC TyTN II’s turn to get the Android treatment. A team of developers have successfully managed to get Android installed and running on the HTC device.
The XDA-Developers have managed to install Android inside of Windows Mobile so as not [...]

Opera Software have today announced the release of their Opera Mini browser for the Android platform. A technical preview release has been made available at labs.opera.com allowing the android development community to test this new build and give their feedback to Opera to help with the upcoming beta.
“Today we’re glad to deliver our mass-market mobile [...]

In a recent chat with Businessweek.com, AT&T’s CEO of Mobility Ralph de la Vega reiterated his warming towards the Android platform but still remains dubious about the Open Handset Alliance:
“As for the Open Handset Alliance, it’s not clear to me if that’s something that will continue to run or whether can just get the [...]

First it was the Sharp Zaurus and the Armadillo 500, now it’s the turn of the Nokia N810. Yup, Google Android has been successfully installed on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet and it works too.

The Wiki page at elinux.org details the install guide on getting the Nokia device up and running with Android. The guide [...]

AT&T who were initially absent from the long list of mobile technology companies that supported Android in the beginning have now thrown their hat into the ring.
AT&T have announced their plans to offer phones running the Google Android platform - after being assured by Google that the company won’t be locked into only offering Google [...]

Google’s Official Android developer blog is celebrating the five month anniversary of the announcement of Android. Android was announced back on November 5th 2007, and since that date has received great acceptance amoungst the open source developer community.
Here’s some of Google Android’s highlights from the past 5 months:

The Android Software Development Kit (SDK) was released [...]

Oops, it seems that during a recent conference call about Google’s plans for the “white spaces” spectrum, Richard Whitt, Google’s Washington telecom and media counsel may have inadvertantly blurted out that Android phones could be out as soon as summer or fall of this year.
Since the Android announcement last November, Google have said that Android [...]