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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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Dec

4

2010

NookColor SDK released, Android developers can now port their apps

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by Tyler Cunningham
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Barnes and Noble has announced that the NookColor SDK is now available for developers to download and begin the process of porting their apps for the device. Some people are already questioning why this SDK only supports the NC, and not the other line of Nook devices. You may remember that the  NC has already [...]

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Oct

13

2010

Rumor: Android Gingerbread SDK May Drop Next Week

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by Jesse Bauer
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Rumor mills are spinning, as we have seen several postings about the possible drop of Android Gingerbread SDK next week! The word on the street is that this version of Android OS will be the most radical change to the OS we’ve seen. Majority of speculation has also been that Gingerbread will be version 3.0, [...]

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Oct

5

2010

Qualcomm releasing Augmented Reality SDK beta

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by Jesse Bauer
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So if you’ve read the latest Daniel Suarez novels involving the “Darknet” and believe that all we need to twist our visual world into another reality is to change the way we view things, literally, then Qualcomm has what you’re looking for. Qualcomm is releasing its hyped Augmented Reality SDK where developers can take a [...]

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Aug

9

2010

Tablet makers waiting for Android to support higher resolutions

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by Tyler Cunningham
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Many of you might be wondering why Android tablets haven’t been flooding the market like some had predicted.  The reason for this particular case of cold feet is Android’s inability to scale well on screens bigger than 5 inches.  Android 2.2 (Froyo) currently supports screen resolutions of up to 854×480 pixels, but this is expected [...]

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Aug

3

2010

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

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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 Caught up? Good. Now that you’re up to speed on what’s been [...]

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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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Jun

24

2010

Control your Android phone with your PC, unofficially of course

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by Dustin Karnes
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What Gadget geek hasn’t said to themselves, “boy, I wish I could control my phone via my PC”, or, “man, I wish I could record my Android device doing this or that”? Well, thanks to the folks over at xda-developers, it’s now a (relatively simple) reality. I just tested this method out on my  HTC [...]

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