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Dec

14

2010

Strict Mode in Android 2.3 Gingerbread helps developers make better, leaner apps

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by Dustin Karnes
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In the slew of new things to be included in Android 2.3 Gingerbread, here’s one that the devs will love. It’s a new feature called “StrictMode”, and is designed to monitor an app as it works and watch for calls, commands, or other app functions that could end up slowing things down on your device. [...]

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Dec

8

2010

Zombie art found in Gingerbread SDK – What this means for us

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by Jesse Bauer
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Deep within the SDK of our new favorite OS, Android 2.3, is something most didn’t expect to see…Zombies! Yes, Zombies! We see them everywhere, aimlessly walking about, mumbling brief sentence fragments to the likes of “brains…” and “uuuuughghghghghghg….” So one might ask, “Why are there Zombies in my Gingerbread?” One may say that Zombies have [...]

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Nov

6

2010

Rumor: Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” SDK being released November 11?

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by Tyler Cunningham
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Well, it’s that time of the month again. A little under a month ago, we brought you a rumor that the Gingerbread SDK was dropping around the middle of October. Well, IntoMobile is jumping into the fray with a rumor that the Android 2.3 SDK is actually going to be released on November 11th. It [...]

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Oct

25

2010

Google providing Android SDK for developers to bring interstitial ads to your phone

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by Tyler Cunningham
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Due to popular demand from advertisers and publishers, Google has announced that they are introducing interactive video and interstitial (ads displayed before or after content is viewed) ad units on the Android platform. Google states that this will give advertisers the chance to reach a much larger audience, and for publishers to maximize their earning [...]

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Oct

21

2010

Gingerbread Blinking Power Off Video

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by Jesse Bauer
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There’s been some circulation from people who have gotten their hands on the Android 3.0 SDK, although we still haven’t been shown any real changes to the OS…until now. Here’s a video showing the Power Off visual display within what is thought to be Android 3.0. [Many thanks to the tipster who sent this in!]

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Oct

15

2010

Android developers: improve performance using Traceview

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by Steve Ginter
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The Android Developers Blog has a nice breakdown on a tool called Traceview that Android developers can use to improve performance on their applications.   I could go into detail but Tim Bray does a good job on the blog of breaking it down. He explains how to use the logged data to find out what [...]

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Jul

26

2010

Google Becoming More Open with Access in the Development Process

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by Chris Moor
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In a move to be more open with developers, Google is taking steps to provide once closed contributed source code to the public. Before the policy change any publicly contributed source code went into the private tree for only Google engineers’ eyes. Now with the new change publicly contributed source code goes into the public [...]

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Jul

21

2010

Android Development 101- Part 3: Introduction to Databases

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by Chris Moor
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In case you missed part 1 and part 2, Hackaday is in the process of an Android Development “course” if you will that is walking you through the process of developing for the Android platform. They have now posted the third part in this series which introduces you to using databases, specifically SQLite databases with [...]

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Jul

17

2010

How to install the official Droid Incredible boot animation

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by Chris Moor
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What is it with people an boot animations? We only see them for a few seconds, maybe only once per day or not even at all. We even showed you the Samsung Captivate boot animation a few days ago. But as well all know, with the Android community, it’s all about customizing. Recently a rogue [...]

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