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Oct

1

2010

Despite Google’s insistence, Touchdown developer feels Android 2.2 is great for tablets

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by Tyler Cunningham
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It’s no big secret that Google isn’t thrilled that Android 2.2 is being used on tablets. However, NitroDesk, the makers of the Touchdown Exchange client, doesn’t agree with Google’s thinking. The company recently made a post on their website proclaiming their fondness of the Android 2.2 SDK and its usefulness for developing for tablets. “Despite [...]

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Oct

1

2010

More countries, more sellers, more buyers

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by Mikka Burrell
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According to Android developers, 20 more countries have been added to the list of developers that can sell paid apps on Android Market. Additionally, over the next 2 weeks, users in 18 more countries will be able to purchase paid apps from Android Market. Today’s additions included Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, [...]

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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

24

2010

New Payment Options May Be Available For Android Market Soon

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by Chris Moor
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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 to any other app market (57%). This is most likely because only 9 out of the 43 countries that use Android devices can distribute paid apps, and only 13 can [...]

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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

19

2010

Android Development 101- Part 2: Graphical Elements

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by Chris Moor
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In case you missed Android 101 – Hello World, 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. Continuing from where they left off in the “Hello World” course, they now start getting into the Graphical User Interface, [...]

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Jul

16

2010

Android Development 101: Hello World

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by Michael Murphy
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Hackaday.com is in the beginning stages of an Android Development 101 course.  The current segment is the creation of the “Hello World” application.  For those who are not familiar, Hello World is typically the first program that any programmer creates, simply being an easy program that just displays a hello message. If you have any [...]

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