Android Applications Archive

Applications news, interviews and updates for the Android platform. Including winners and submissions for the Google Android developer challenge.

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 users to centralize all of their voicemail boxes and to visualize all of their voicemail messages direct from the handsets screen.
The service will also enable users to listen to their [...]

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 give users the ability to two-way sync their contacts, calendar and tasks.
The software works by synchronizing your PC Outlook data with your Google account and then wirelessly with your Android [...]

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 improving their applications and getting ready for the second round.
Today Google have announced the winners of the second round of the challenge. With 10 winning applications receiving $275,000 and another [...]

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 Android platform along with their thoughts on the Android Developer Challenge and the future of the mobile OS.
Click here to read the full interview with the team behind CallACab!
Previous interviews [...]

Our series of interviews with Android Developer Challenge top 50 finalists continues, this time we posed our questions to the creators of Commandro - a GPS based social networking device for the Android platform.
Click here to read the full interview with the team behind Commandro!
Previous interviews include, Eco2go, BreadCrumbz.

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 media attention since winning it’s place in the next round of the Android developer challenge, and recently took time out to answer a few of our questions.
Click here to read [...]

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 creator of BreadCrumbz to find out a little more about the application, Android and the Developer Challenge.

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 Google engineer is a simple 3D world clock. The application serves as a solid illustrative example of how to properly use the OpenGL API’s in Android apps.
Apps for Android is [...]

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 first round of judging.
A full list detailing the judges used and their respective companies can also now be viewed from the site, along with a slide deck of the Android [...]

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 of the public list, but im sure we’ll find out about them shortly. We’ve taken the liberty of matching up the domains/websites to go along with this list, if [...]