Android Authority On Air - Episode 28 - Motorola DROID RAZR HD and Kindle Fire HD

If you happened to catch our attempted LIVE show last night, you’re aware that we had all sorts of technical difficulties. Our Hangout On Air on Google+ was lagged. We were getting disconnected, some people even thought all of our fan girls were using up all of our bandwidth. After a few failed attempts we decided to reschedule the show, a day later.

Fast forward to today, we went live, without issue. This week we focused on Motorola and Amazon’s recent announcements. Motorola announced the Droid RAZR HD, Droid RAZR MAXX HD, and the Droid RAZR M. The latest round of RAZR’s are pretty amazing, if we do happen to say so ourselves. Motorola is also giving you a $100 credit to buy a new phone if your 2011 Motorola phone won’t be getting Jelly Bean. Besides phones, this week we also saw Amazon drop 3 new Kindle Fire tablets onto the world. We saw an upgrade to the original Kindle Fire, a new Kindle Fire HD 7 inch, a new Kindle Fire HD 8.9 inch and even one with LTE.

Sprint decided to finally update their Nexus devices. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S 4G have begun receiving Android Jelly Bean 4.1.1 and a few other devices finally got their Android 4.0 ICS updates. uTorrent arrived on Android and last but not least HTC plans to sue Apple with their LTE patents.

The Give Away

We’re giving away a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (International) here in the near future. If you’re interested and want another chance to win, during the show we give away a super secret entry code. Once you get the code, just head on over to the contest page and enter your code into the Rafflecopter.

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Kindle Fire user? $5 in Amazon Coins await you

by Bogdan Bele, 1 week ago

Kindle Fire users have a little reason to be happy, as Amazon announced in a press release (which you can check out below) that it is giving away 500 Amazon Coins to every user. That’s…

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MasterMuffin

“This makes game development every easy” and “Wnen you are happy”

I’m so excited about this that I have to be Nazi :D
- http://www.garysims.co.uk garysims
  
  That stupid spell checker!!!! :-) All fixed…
  
  If you download the SDK please let me know what you think.
  
  Gary
  - Jaime Larios
    
    We would like tutorials!!!! Please :-)
  - MasterMuffin
    
    Just downloaded, looks nice but I’m not going to start studying it today because tomorrow I have more time
  - MasterMuffin
    
    When I delete my comment, why does it show it as if it were commented by “Guest”?? Anyways, I couldn’t resist it (Corona) so I started playing with it. Can you help me a little if you know how to? Here’s my (short) code so far:
    
    local physics = require( “physics” )
    physics.start()
    display.setStatusBar( display.HiddenStatusBar )
    local sky = display.newImage( “a.bmp” )
    local ground = display.newImage( “b.png” )
    ground.x = 640
    ground.y = 750
    physics.addBody( ground, { friction=2,0 } )
    ground.bodyType = “static”
    local crate = display.newImage( “c.png” )
    crate.x = 1200
    crate.y = -1000
    crate.rotation = 10
    physics.addBody( crate, { density=2.0, friction=2,0, bounce=0.3 } )
    
    It’s basically a background (horizontally, resolution 1280×720 and orientation are in another file) with text and a dude standing and then a TNT drops on the right and rolls to the center. After that all has happened, I’d like to add another picture, but I don’t know how (yes I’m a big noob :D). I searched and got to this thing called
    timer.performwithDelay(time in milliseconds, object)
    So how do I make it so that when I add
    local logo = display.newImage( “d.png” )
    I get the timer to delay the coming of “d.png” but nothing else?
    That was a weird explanation, but if you got it and know the answer please reply.
    Thanks :)
    - http://www.garysims.co.uk garysims
      
      Maybe you need something like this:
      
      local function addlogo( event )
      local logo = display.newImage( “d.png” )
      end
      
      timer.performWithDelay( 1000, addlogo)
      
      You could also try test if the crate has any velocity using the body:getLinearVelocity() but you would need to assign it a variable and then you get into the whole scope issue, but that is another story!
      - MasterMuffin
        
        wow thanks, I didn’t have the “end” and “addlogo” >.<
Viktor Hoti

I would like to see some tutorials as they can help a begginer to go further.
me

It looks like this is just a free 30-day trial.
me

It’s just a free trial, you still have to pay if you actually want to publish something.