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UPDATE: The Android Team’s Dan Morrill has posted an explanation for the removal of the Galaxy Nexus and other CDMA devices from the official developer support page. This has nothing to do with Google Wallet (we never thought it did) and everything to do with the way the Android code is compiled for CDMA devices. In [...]

  Greetings, everyone! You seem to have stumbled into the Android Overload. This is the place where we pool all the stories that come across our desk from throughout the day — the ones that didn’t get the star treatment on our front page. That doesn’t mean they’re unimportant, not at all. There’s always a [...]

This is the moment many brand new Kindle Fire owners have been waiting for. The day a developer would successfully port Android 4.0 to the affordable little tablet. I don’t have many details regarding the developer, G1011999‘s work (will update the post once I dig around a bit), we can see Ice Cream Sandwich is [...]

The cease and desist order issued to Android dev Trevor Eckhart has been withdrawn by Carrier IQ less than a week after news first broke of potential legal action. Eckhart has been digging deep into the software found on HTC handsets to determine the full extent of information collected by the service. Carrier IQ first [...]

Besides rolling around in a pool filled with their $ 70 million in Angry Birds revenue, just what does Rovio “the world’s fastest growing global consumer brand ever,” plan to do with all that cash? Well, the Finnish group may be looking to get into the indie publishing business. In an interview with Develop, Rovio [...]

Can this be likened to workplace stress? Unwarranted verbal abuse due to psychological instability? Or do these market commenters really deserve it? Up to everyone to decide for themselves, I suppose, but one thing is absolutely true – this is freaking hilarious and I’m sure other developers know exactly how he feels. [Market via Reddit] [...]

Ever since the release of the tablet-centric Android Honeycomb, the platform has been taking flack for a lack of proper apps designed with the larger form factor in mind. With a newly announced series of developer sessions, the Android Team hopes to improve the body of software available for tablets and, in doing so, dispense [...]

You folks have been waiting for this one for quite some time. Due to the Motorola DROID X’s bootloader being locked, it’s quite difficult to get truly-custom ROMs up and running on it. Notice I use the word “difficult” and not “impossible”. Developer CVPS has somehow found a way to get CyanogenMod running on the [...]

I hope you weren’t planning on buying N64oid anytime soon because you may have just lost your change for a while. Yongzh – the developer – has decided to unpublish the application from the Android market. The reason cited seems to be market commenters’ issues that are simply out of his control for the time [...]

It seems like forever since it was first talked about, but it was just announced through the Android Developers Blog that In-app Billing will launch next week. The feature is already up and running for testing in the Android Market developer console. Apps designed to take advantage of In-app Billing can be uploaded now, product [...]