Everyone has their opinion about Android - and they’re entitled to it - but it seems the majority of folks still have their reservations concerning Android’s potential to succeed and flourish.
Take for example Paul Kapustka from GigaOM with his recent article titled, “Android: Much Coolness, But 3 Big Problems“. We don’t mean to pick on [...]
At first, folks were complaining that Android would take a backseat at Google I/O. But now, after Day 1, there is already an abundance of new “stuff” to share with you.
Enjoy wasting the rest of your day watching these videos over and over and over:
User Interface and Basic Nav
Google Street View with a built in [...]
Google I/O sure as heck didn’t disappoint. Some lengthy Q&A about Android dropped some really, really interesting tidbits. The excitement regarding Android continues to build and these videos illustrate that the Android concept is finally maturing into a solid product. The excitement!
Scroll down for a condensed transcript of the Q&A session:
Q. Do you have [...]
Google I/O is Google’s largest event for Developer’s and it begins today (May 28-29, 2008). Described by Google as “Two days of in-depth, technical sessions on how to build the next generation of web applications with Google and open technologies,” they list AJAX/Java, Maps & Geo, Social Applications, APIs & Tools and Mobile as the [...]
Eric Chu - Google’s Mobile Platform Program Manager and head honcho for the Android Developers Challenge - spent some time with us to discuss Android, shedding some interesting light along the way.
First on the menu was the composition of the ADCs Top 50 Apps. The undeniable majority of apps, if you had to categorize them, [...]
If you’ve read anything about Palm in the last year, chances are it’s been bad. For example, in September of 2007 they canceled the Palm Foleo, a device they previously and proudly trumpeted as the revolutionary future of mobile computing. Then they delayed the launch of their “new” OS from 2008 to 2009, laid off [...]
Cell Phones have easily surpassed Bubble Gum as the accessory posing the biggest nuisance for educators across the world. But will Android and the open source mobile movement change that?
An MIT professor says yes: “Its portability, context sensitivity, connectivity, and ubiquity… would make it ideal for learning games from elementary school all the way through [...]
The folks at Google’s Android Developer Blog have just announced a new, free application called AndroidGlobalTime.
It may not be the most exciting android application we’ve seen, but it’s not supposed to be. This specific app is intended to illustrate (to developers) the use of “OpenGL ES APIs” in Android applications.
We’ve been hearing some developer noise [...]
To say people are curious regarding what will be the first Android enabled handset - which many speculate will be the HTC Dream - would be the understatement of the year. Put perhaps a more pressing question for Android enthusiasts is who will be the first Service Provider to carry an Android phone?
Well, the pool [...]
The news has been coming slowly but surely…
This evening Google released a list of the judges (featured below) and a 46-page document ( one page for each application) overviewing the winning applications (see it here). Kind of interesting that Google employees represented 20% of the judges… weren’t sure if they’d have a very active roll [...]