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Oct

21

2011

Taste Ice Cream Sandwich With New Theme From SDK For CM7 Theme Chooser [Courtesy of XDA]

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by Justin Routhier
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Thanks to XDA developer Sonnysekhon, you don’t need to get your hands on a Galaxy Nexus to enjoy your first little taste of Ice Cream Sandwich. A new theme built right from the SDK is now available for download if you’ve got a custom ROM running the Theme Chooser app. Although still in its infant [...]

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Aug

8

2011

Run Java games and apps on your Android Device (JBED)

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by David Laborde
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According to XDA member and developer mohammadN, JBED will let you run any Java/J2ME/MDIP games or applications natively with Jbed Android Java Emulator. Using a signed flash-able package for easy installation, this can be flashed on ClockWorkMod recovery version 2, 3, or 4. This was tested on an HTC Wildfire but should be compatible with [...]

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Aug

6

2011

Better Android Apps Has Google Market Account Suspended

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by Andrew Greenfield
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In what might be a misunderstanding, a small group of developers under the name of Better Android Apps has had their developing account suspended from the Market. The group has sent Google the following email. “Dear Google, Our developer account was suspended today, we have no ideas why. Can you please take a look and [...]

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Aug

2

2011

Android Developer Labs 2011 Is Now Open For Submissions

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by Andrew Greenfield
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The folks over at the Android Developers blog has just announced the dates for the Android Developer Labs 2011. The goal this year is optimizing Android apps for tablets, specifically making high quality tablet apps that are great in the look and user experience categories. More details on how to register you ask? Sure! The [...]

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Jul

30

2011

From The Dev That Brought You LauncherPro: The Skinnable UberMusic Player

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by Andrew Greenfield
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We here at TA are very much in love with customizing our phone. An easy way for root users and non root users alike is using an alternative home launcher. There are so many to choose from, but my personal favorite alternative is LauncherPro. The developer is easy to talk to, he listens to suggestions, [...]

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Jun

28

2011

Motorola Offers MOTOREADY App Testing Program For The Xoom

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by Joe Sirianni
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Motorola is taking development on the Xoom pretty serious these days and to ensure a great experience for the consumer they’re launching the MOTOREADY App Testing Program.  The service assists in finding applications that are best optimized for the popular Motorola Xoom tablet. We’ve had a behind-the-scenes version of the MOTOREADY program for years.  This [...]

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May

10

2011

Dev Community Ports Honeycomb to New Devices – Hero CDMA, and Advent Vega

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by Michael Murphy
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If you’re a regular TalkAndroid reader, you are probably aware that Google isn’t rolling Honeycomb out to very many devices yet, and hasn’t yet released the source code. As expected, though, that will only slow the dev community down for so long. The development group over at xda-developers has been working frantically since the first [...]

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May

5

2011

AppsBar For Android Helps Anyone Become A Developer, For Free!

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by Joe Sirianni
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Over the past year we’ve seen a number of app building services come to fruition, allowing somewhat, your average Joe to build their own app.  Services like Google’s App Inventor and PhoneGap have aided wannabe developers in creating great applications with a limited amount of programming knowledge.  As I always say, choice is good and [...]

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Apr

27

2011

TapJoy’s Policy Changes Encourage Appia to Introduce “Pay Per Download” Ad Structure

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by Michael Murphy
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TapJoy — an advertising company that works with mobile developers to place ads in their apps — has been making some policy changes lately. No longer can apps allow the downloading of other apps within the TapJoy network in lieu of making in-app purchases, which is something that TapJoy has promoted as being one of [...]

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