Android News

We can’t always write about the greener pastures of Android, right? Facebook’s Joe Hewitt – one of the developers responsible for iOS’s Facebook app – switched over to the Android team and his findings were undesirable, to say the least: he called his experiences with the Android platform “horrendous”. It wasn’t just the development tools [...]

Kevin Packingham, product development lead at Sprint, is planning to part ways with the carrier come Monday for an unidentified Kansas City company, says an article in the Wall Street Journal. You are probably intimately familiar with some of Packingham’s work, as he headed up development on Sprint’s first 4G phone, the HTC EVO, as [...]

Oh noes! Sprint’s lost another high-level executive recently. This time, Wall Street Journal’s reporting that Sprint’s Senior VP Kevin Packingham has left the company to run a different company headquartered in the Kansas City area. No word on what that other company is, but if you’re a customer of Sprint that liked how their phone [...]

Cyanogen and company’s ambitious (and appreciated) efforts to bring Froyo to as many handsets as possible continues with their latest string of releases this morning (or late last night depending on who you are). The custom-cooked FroYo ROM based off of AOSP 2.2 has been in release candidate status for a while now, but it’s [...]

Google is opening up Android development even more with a new policy for the Native Development Kit (NDK) seeing contributed code added directly to the public source tree rather then the private tree it was once relegated to. The hope is that a more transparent contribution process will prevent OEMs from releasing devices with unfinished [...]

As seems to be the case more often than not, if you want OS updates for your Android handset, you may be better served turning to the development community if you are the risky type that likes tinkering around with your phone. This time a band of ROM-smiths over at ModMyMobile have built up an [...]

Fennec probably isn’t due out for Android for a long while, but that doesn’t mean the folks at Mozilla are just sitting on their hands doing nothing. They’ve released the latest nightly build of Firefox’s mobile offspring yesterday, but their biggest change has to be that multitouch is now functional. The developer who updated us [...]

I can remember a time when emulators for the likes of Playstation and N64 were unrealistic even for a desktop machine, but thanks to rapid advancements in technology and guys like ZodTTD, having a Playstation in your pocket no longer means purchasing a PSP. In fact, Zod has already created iPhone-friendly emulators for SNES, Genesis, [...]

The official Samsung South Africa Twitter account just let the proverbial cat out of the bag, and then quickly shoved it back in. A picture was posted showing what looks to be a Samsung Galaxy-esque tablet. It gets a 7-inch TFT (not AMOLED) screen, 3.5 mm audio jack, front facing camera, and phone capabilities. And [...]

In ramping up for the upcoming MOTODEV Summit, which will consist of a series of events throughout Latin America, Randy Ksar of the MOTODEV team recently sat down for a chat with one of the founders of the Google Technology User Group (GTUG) Mexico City and AndroidTitlan.org, Jose Angel. The full podcast is posted over [...]