Android Authority

News and information about Android applications.

Today mocoNews put up a story that cites “multiple sources” as informing it of T-Mobile USA’s plans for an open application store for all of its platforms, including Android. The new application store would replace the carrier’s currently closed deck that its customers are restricted to.
Supposedly the plan is to do something similar to [...]

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A couple of videos have shown up on YouTube that claim to show Android running on a Nokia N95 smartphone, a device that normally runs the Symbian OS with Nokia’s S60 user interface.
Android has been sucessfully ported to Nokia’s Linux based N810 Internet Tablet, as well as a number of HTC smartphones that run Windows [...]

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Google recently posted a new sample application for its developer community to take a look at. The new app, 3D World Clock, is intended to provide new developers with some insight as to how to work with the Google Android SDK’s OpenGL 3G graphics library.
The code for the application has been added to the [...]

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Jason Chen over at the official Android Developers Blog has posted a list of 46 of the 50 first round winners of the Android Developers Challenge. Why 46, you ask? Well, 4 of the winners wanted to continue their work in secret. I suppose they are hoping to get the jump on [...]

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A new Android app called AutoHTN is being developed that will let users control thermostats, lights, outlets, blinds, and other home accessories/equipment directly from their Android handhelds. The open source OS has allowed home automation to be taken mainstream by the Home Theater Network company and will allow users an affordable option to regulate [...]

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It appears that Quickoffice, the Microsoft Office document editing suite, has already been ported to the Android smartphone platform, and that the company is merely waiting for Android phones to start shipping before it releases the product formally.
The Quickoffice folks paid PC Magazine a visit and showed them the application running on the Android SDK’s [...]

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The guys over at TalkAndroid.com have posted a nice feature on 6 upcoming games that are being developed for the Google Android smartphone platform. Some of them are pretty basic, like the Atari Tempest clone SpaceBugs, but others are much more complicated and attempt to blur the line between online and reality by building [...]

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Enkin on Google Android

We’ve just seen a really cool video demo (included below) of a new app that has been developed as part of the Android Developer Challenge. Basically the system, known as Enkin, is a mapping system. It displays maps like Google Maps does with a satellite view, but also has two [...]

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Today Opera announced that it has developed a version of the Opera Mini web browser for the Google Android platform. This early preview version of Mini for Android can be downloaded from the Opera Labs website.
Opera is asking for feedback from the Android developer community so that it can prepare for making a true [...]

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