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Oct

2

2010

Adobe AIR Panel Q&A at Big TX Android BBQ

by Dustin Karnes
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In a Q&A session with Jon Campos, Dallas FLEX User Group Manager and Adobe Community Professional, we got some pretty good info on up and coming features from Adobe for the Android platform. If you’re an Android developer, programmer, coder, or just a code geek, be sure to check out our rundown after the break, [...]

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Sep

29

2010

LauncherPro to undergo some major changes

by Dustin Karnes
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LauncherPro, one of the most popular third party home screen replacements for Android, is about to go through some major changes. The developer has written up a blog post addressing these changes, and they all look pretty good to us. The problem with LauncherPro now, according to the developer, is that the code is “a [...]

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Aug

11

2010

Android Development 101 – Part 6: Getting ready for Market

by Chris Moor
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Well we’re now on part six of the Android Development series but in case you haven’t been following along, here’s what you’ve missed: Android Development 101 – Hello World Android Development 101 – Part 2: Graphical Elements Android Development 101 – Part 3: Introduction to Databases Android Development 101 – Part 4: Advanced DB/GUI Code [...]

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Aug

6

2010

Google Interview: Future of Android

by Dustin Karnes
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Over at LifeHacker Australia, one of their own did a short interview with Yu-Kuan Lin, Android Product Manager. Yu-Kuan was asked about things like upcoming projects, fragmentation, battery life, upcoming devices, and more. Here are some highlights from the interview: Upcoming Priorities What we’re really focusing on is how do we take the user experience [...]

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Aug

5

2010

Android Development 101 – Part 5:DroidDraw & Information Tracker

by Chris Moor
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Well we’re now on part four of the Android Development series but in case you haven’t been following along, here’s what you’ve missed: Android Development 101 – Hello World Android Development 101 – Part 2: Graphical Elements Android Development 101 – Part 3: Introduction to Databases Android Development 101 – Part 4: Advanced DB/GUI Code [...]

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Aug

3

2010

Android Development 101- Part 4: Advanced DB/GUI Code and DDMS

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Well we’re now on part four of the Android Development series but in case you haven’t been following along, here’s what you’ve missed: Android Development 101: Hello World Android Development 101- Part 2: Graphical Elements Android Development 101- Part 3: Introduction to Databases Caught up? Good. Now that you’re up to speed on what’s been [...]

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Jul

20

2010

Android Developers Blog highlights multithreading

by Dustin Karnes
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Over at the Android Developer’s Blog, there’s a new post up that highlights the utilization of multithreading for Android devices to improve performance. While this is certainly not a casual read for those who don’t understand programming and development, it’s definitely worth a look. The article takes an in-depth look at how to utilize multithreading [...]

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Jul

13

2010

PHP for Android, install it and start testing!

by Chris Moor
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Yes you read that correctly, PHP is coming (well it’s here) for Android. Irontec is the company behind the project and their aim is to make PHP development in Android not only possible but also feasible providing tools and documentation. You’ll need a few things before you can dive into this, One being ASE or the Android [...]

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Jul

2

2010

Open source 3D driver for Snapdragon released by Qualcomm.

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In a move to provide developers the ability to create rich applications, Qualcomm has released an open source driver for their Snapdragon processors. Specifically this driver is for the GPU core of the processor which controls the 2D and 3D applications. The kernel level code give the developers more control buy opening the code that [...]

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