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They are doing it again! If you’ve been participating last years Google I/O conference in San Francsico you might remember  those loud cheers and hefty smiles after it had been announced that everyone gets a brand new Google I/O Android device. This was not the only reason to cheer during that specific keynote but it [...]

Once in a while the SDK shows some hickups – usually easy to solve. As this one. Today i got this error message “Error generating final archive: Debug certificate expired on …” while building an apk file inside Eclipse to be run in the emulator on a machine which has not been used for a [...]

According to an press inviation the Korean company Inbrics is about to annouce an Android based MID (Mobile Internet Device) as part of a entire media device ecosystem (IPTV, Server, PC etc.) during the upcoming CES 2010 in Las Vegas. There is a short video which shows the general idea. No further information is available [...]

Motorola published some technical data for the upcoming XT800 device as part of the MotoDev event which will be held in Beijing, China January 13th.
It will run on a OMAP 3430 CPU at 550 MHz (the Beagleboard an Steroids), has 256 MByte RAM and 512 MByte Flash ROM (130 MByte available for the user). The [...]

One of the first navigation apps available for Android at all has been AndNav which has been followed/superseeded later on by AndNav2. The app itself is based on the Openstreetmap dataset and is able to provide a turn-by-turn navigation feature including POI support, traffic and weather info, text-to-speech. It is also capable of position tracking. [...]

Usually Google provides the sources of a new Android release when there is the first device out in the market. With the Motorola Droid (Milestone in Germany) out people eagerly waited for the 2.0 sources.
Yesterday Google pushed the Eclair sources into the AOSP repository. For everyone interested get them by using the the familiar repo [...]

Thanks to a wonderful plugin for Wordpress, which drives our site, we are now able to provide optimized content for mobile devices sporting modern browser technology. The plugin is called WPTouch and translates the content into chunks which are more suitable for browsers running on an iPhone or Android. The menu structure is shown in [...]