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Dec

15

2010

Nexus S kernel released via Android’s Open Source Project

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by Chris Moor
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Get excited Android enthusiasts! They day you all have been waiting for is here. Samsung’s Nexus S is scheduled to be sold by Best Buy in two days, but today presents a special treat and answers a question as old as the Android Community itself. Will we see a root for it? Headline news is [...]

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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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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

27

2010

Licensing service for Android apps should cut down piracy

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by Chris Moor
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Think you’re pretty slick by just finding the stand-alone APK’s for apps that you should’ve paid for? Obviously the developers of those apps are sick of their hardwork being distributed for free, but Google has just implemented a service to help them out. Android’s new licensing service allows the individual app to call Google’s server [...]

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