filed in Android, Android Device, Mobile Gadgets on Nov.16, 2009
According to Flurry the Motorola Droid had the best start of any Android device (in the US) so far. According to the numbers an estimated 250.000 device have been sold in the first week.
The numbers are smaller in camparison to the iPhone 3GS which had already a large installed customer base. While the iPone sold [...]
filed in Android, HowTo on Nov.15, 2009
While browsing for something completely different over at the Eclipse sites we found the following very nice and comprehensive tutorial for Eclipse and Android beginners. It leads you through all the steps involved from installing the SDK and plugin to starting a new Android project inside of Eclipse, defining the UI and filling in some [...]
filed in Android, Android Details, Technology on Nov.15, 2009
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 [...]
filed in Android, Android Applications, Mobile Gadgets on Oct.28, 2009
It should not have been a big surprise that Google is going into the navigation market based its already sucessful Google Maps and Streetview solutions. Part of the Android 2.0 announcement have been that the new navigation app (Google Maps Navigation) will be available on Google-blessed Android 2.0 devices. This means that only Google-branded phones [...]