If you’ve always wanted to create your own Android app but never had the ability to go to school for it, Andromo proves you don’t have to anymore. Putting itself as ‘the App Maker for Everyone,’ Andromo is a fully web-based system that enables anyone to create pro-quality apps. Apart from being a useful tool for non-programmers, it is free to use the system. By saying that the app is for everyone, Andromo means anyone: business owners, students, musicians, schools, entrepreneurs, artists, clubs, and many more. People can use Andromo as a way to create an app that can communicate, promote, …
Android Police are supporting a rumor that is quite exciting. Apparently the Gingerbread SDK will be released soon, and with it a host of information about what this latest release of Android is going to do. The application inferface will reveal a lot of the new functionality afforded by this iteration of the OS, and furthermore we should have access to a new emulator showing us what the basic Gingerbroad version of Android will look like. It still is not 100% clear as to whether this will be Android 2.5 or 3.0, so again, another minor point could be resolved …
At Google I/O this year, Google released a pre-release version of its Androi 2.2 software developer kit (SDK). Now that the official Nexus One Froyo update is out, Google has released the complete, ready for prime time version of its SDK. All developers are encouraged to update to the latest version now.
Google has released the software developer kit for Android 2.2, the smartphone OS that is perhaps better known as Froyo (“frozen yogurt”). No Android 2.2 devices have been announced yet, but there are a number of Google Nexus Ones out there with Froyo pre-loaded. Google hasn’t indicated when a public Nexus One update will be available, but HTC has said that any 2010 Android devices it has announced and released should be eventually upgradeable to Froyo. [via Mobile Burn]
Over at the Android developers blog there is a new announcement detailing an upgrade to the Native Development Kit for Android. This is big news for Android developers and the third release of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) is now available for download from the Android developer site. According to the official developers blog, ‘It can be used to target devices running Android 1.5 and higher. In addition to a few bug fixes and improvements, this release includes’ a new compiler to help generate more streamline machine code for your application (machine code is the stuff the operating system …
One week after the launch of the Nexus One, Google has released the Android 2.1 SDK to developers. The SDK is considered a minor update to Android and will roll out to existing handsets starting in January. Unlike previous SDKs which were released before a phone was launched, the Android 2.1 SDK was released after the Nexus One so there are no big surprises. All the new bells and whistles that are seen in the Nexus One are included in the SDK which provides new APIs for animated wallpapers, adds geolocation support to the webkit browser, creates a new SignalStrength …
The Google Software-Development-Kit (SDK) has just been updated to the latest version 2.0.1 and the knock on effect of this includes the roll out of Android 2.0.1 to Android 2.0 phones. As you will probably know, the Motorola Droid is the only Android 2.0 phone at the moment. The update does not bring anything massive in terms of new functionality or jazzy features, however, it does fix a few minor bugs and some other Droid specific issues that Google were aware of. For example, the Droid’s camera autofocus is improved along with voice reception. The roll out should happen pretty …
Earlier this evening Google released the SDK for Android 1.6, what most people like to call the Donut release. Core low level features that Donut brings to the platform include support for CDMA devices and differing screen resolutions – including QVGA (as on the HTC Tattoo) and high-res WVGA displays. From a user perspective, the new gesture support, text to speech engine, and slick new Quick Search Box are probably of more interest. The Quick Search Box, in particular, is quite cool in my opinion. Results from the web start popping up on the screen even as you type in …
Yesterday Google released an early look at the Android OS 1.5 software developer kit, which includes developer support for all of the new Cupcake features that we are going to see in devices like the HTC Magic from Vodafone. The new SDK also gives developers the ability to write programs for both the 1.1 release and the new 1.5 release, and going forward will continue to support multiple versions of the platform. Developers can download the Android 1.5 SDK here.
Yuhua, previously known as Yuhuatel, are a Chinese mobile ODM (original design maker) that have recently demonstrated a hardware reference design for use with the Android OS. The company already offer a few phones that run Java and Linux, such as the CPhone. Indeed, the General Mobile DSTL1 was based on a design by Yuhua. Their current customers include Alcatel-TCL and Wigimo, the latter of which is owned by Race Telecom who specialise in mobile solutions for children and parents. According to Linux Devices, the Xphone-SDK runs Android on a PXA-310 SoC clocked to 624MHz making it very similar to …
Dan Morrill at the Android Developers Blog has announced that the 1.1 firmware release of the Android SDK is now available. The new 1.1 firmware, which is seen in T-Mobile’s RC33 update, is compatible with all existing devices, but also includes new API functionality for future applications. The SDK comes complete with a 1.1 version of the Android Emulator. It is available from the Android Developer website.
The guys at NullWire have put together a nice and neat way to get the Cupcake branch of Android running on your personal copy of the Android Emulator. But before you can do that, you need to download and install the Android SDK. [Step 1] Download the SDK from here and install it. Once you have it installed, which is pretty painless, you can then [Step 2] download the Cupcake image files ZIP for the emulator. Make a note of where you install the SDK (ie. “C:\android-sdk\”).
Jeffrey Sharkey was bored. Jeffrey Sharkey is also a developer that needed a change of scenery. As such, he decided to peel the skin off of T-Mobile’s flash based G1 emulator and apply it to the Android smartphone emulator that comes as part of the SDK. The result? An updated look to the emulator that even lets you look at the apps running in landscape mode with the keyboard exposed. Pretty cool. [via AndroidGuys]
Yesterday Dan Morrill over at the Android Developer Blog announced the availability of the first release of the Android 1.0 SDK. This means that any applications developed using the new SDK’s APIs should remain usable on Android phones for quite some time with no fear of SDK feature creep breaking a developer’s code. You can download the latest SDK from Google here.
It seems that Google has posted a timeline that outlines past and future milestones for the Android smartphone operating system. There is nothing too earth shattering in the document, but they do mention that a pre-release of the 1.0 SDK will be available next month (September) with the real SDK to follow later in the year. The posting also reiterates the fact that the first devices will be available in Q4 of this year.
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