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, and advertise something in just a few minutes. So if you’ve always had that crazy idea for creating a useful app, now’s the time to do it! You don’t need any programming skill to learn how to do this anymore.

As of this writing, Andromo is on its beta stage. However, it has been built with a strong background ready for anyone who uses it. Over 14,000 people have already created a free account and created thousands of apps; it’s a clear sign that many are enjoying Andromo. In fact, there have already been several Andromo-created apps that have been added to the Android Market including Tablet Market, how to make up/ apply make up, Leadership Qualities!, Skyrim Elder Scrolls Tips FREE, Body Building Guide, and many more.

If you want to create your own app without going to school for it, you can always use Andromo as a practice arena. What’s more is that you can actually make money with the app you created! Check out other features of Andromo by clicking here.

Sign up for Andromo for free by clicking this link.

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Google Android

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 with this release of the updated SDK.

[Source: Android Police]

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Android NDK 3

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 eventually executes) along with support for OpenGL ES 2.0 features.

Applications targeting Android 2.0 (API level 5) or higher can now directly access OpenGL ES 2.0 features. This brings the ability to control graphics rendering through vertex and fragment shader programs, using the GLSL shading language.

You might be wondering how the standard Android SDK (software development kit) and the NDK (native development kit) work together? The NDK is an ‘add-on’ for Android SDK which effectively allows you to compile code in a native language removing the requirement for the Java virtual machine. This is perfect for creating some serious gaming potential on Android, and we look forward to seeing what developers can come up with!

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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 soon so we’ll keep you posted.

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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 your search query.  For many tasks, the web browser never even gets launched, since the results can often be acted upon directly by tapping on them.  You can see how it works in the Google provided video, which is available after the jump.

Other parts of the system we updated as well, of course.  The camera, camcorder, and gallery have gotten user interface updates, and the camera launches 39% faster than before and reduces the shot to shot time by 28%.  There’s new VPN support for the platform, too.  Google also says that there is a new battery usage tool that allows users to monitor application power use, and deal with power-hungry apps accordingly.  This sounds to me like an improved version of the app that comes in the “Spare Parts” application that’s available already.

The Android Market also gets a face lift, which we spied a while ago.

Google notes that we can expect to see Donut devices in October and that apps written for older versions of Android will work on Donut devices.

You can read more on the Android Developers Blog here and here.

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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.

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According to Linux Devices, the Xphone-SDK runs Android on a PXA-310 SoC clocked to 624MHz making it very similar to the DSTL1. Similarly, it seems to come with the same 3-inch Sharp touchscreen and tri-band GPRS/EDGE capability. The Xphone design provides a 3 MP camera, WiFi and Bluetooth although GPS and accelerometers are missing. Specifications for the Xphone-SDK are listed after the jump.

• Processor — Marvell PXA-310 624Mhz
• Memory — 128MB SDRAM; 256MB internal ROM
• Flash — MicroSD card slot for up to 16GB external
• Cellular — 900/1800/1900MHz GPRS/EDGE
• Display — 3-inch TFT WQVGA (240 x 400)
• WiFi — 802.11b/g
• Bluetooth — Bluetooth 2.0
• Camera — 3Mpix camera (no flash)
• Video playback — H.264, streaming, 3GPP, MPEG4, Codec 3GP
• Audio playback — G-streamer based engine supports major codec media files, including MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, MIDI
• Image support — JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF
• Web and messaging — HTTP, WAP Push, xHTML, SMS, MMS
• Other features — Data kits for USB/JTAG connectivity
• Battery — 1000mAh
• Operating system — Android (Linux/Java)

Apparently Yuhua’s Xphone-SDK is available to OEMs now and if you want to pick up more information you can visit their (non-English) website here.

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