Android News

There’s no question that mobile apps are a booming business and a new website called Apptopia wants to help developers captilize on this by selling their apps. And we’re not talking about selling an app to users — we’re talking about selling complete ownership of an app, handing over the reigns to a big company [...]

Android Developers blog has introduced the (beta) launch of a new series of classes for Android developers looking to build better apps. They’re calling it “Android Training” and the goal is to help bring higher quality apps to the Android Market by giving developers the training they need on designing higher quality apps when it [...]

I know we’ve all thought to ourselves: what would we do in a situation where we can’t dial 911? Whether it be because your assailant would hear you or because you don’t have enough time to get the phone out and dial, it’s a valid question. How about an app that not only alerts the [...]

It has just been made know that Google recently bought 1,023 patents from IBM in a move that will no doubt help the internet search giant defend the Android OS from rivals like Apple and Microsoft (boo — hiss). The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s show that Google acquired these patents back in August 17th [...]

Every day we peruse the Android Market looking for the best, worst, interesting, and most unique apps in an effort to sift out a few gems. We call it Apps of the Day. We can’t guarantee that every app featured below is a real winner, but each is worth at least a quick look. It’s [...]

Another day, another story. These things can pile up on you but that’s why we, at Phandroid, created the Android Overload. This is the place where you can continue to get your Android fix on all the stories that didn’t quite make it onto our homepage. While I can’t guarantee you’ll want to read up [...]

Good evening, ladies and gents. I have an interesting Android Overload for you today. This is the place for the stories that, for one reason or another, couldn’t make the front page of our site but didn’t deserve to fade away into the abyss of the net. I found a few good Google related stories [...]

To say there’s an app for just about everything might be a bit of an overstatement. But have you ever wanted an app to help you find more apps? I think Android is at somewhere around 100,00o apps in their Market and its may not always be easy finding the “good apps” or even apps [...]

T-Mobile has just announced the release their very first Android app for all users (regardless of your carrier) onto the Market. More For Me pulls together the best daily deals from sites like Living Social into one streamlined app custom tailored to your interests and demographic. These Groupon style apps seem to be all the [...]

The folks behind PDANET have released version 3.0 of their application, and although they didn’t include a changelog on the Android market listing they did tweet what the update brought – the ability to hide your unauthorized tether usage from your carrier. It’s a proactive move from them in light of recent carrier movements to [...]