Android News

Chances are, if you’ve downloaded your share of applications from the Android Market you’ve run into at least one situation where the the app will ask (sometimes require) the user to give it a 5 star rating in the Market before continuing. By clicking “yes,” a user will then be taken to the application in [...]

Much is made about information security, particularly for end-users who tend to sign into their accounts on public computers. Google’s giving their users a seemingly genius option for secure login, though. They’ve employed the use of QR codes to make it more safe for those of you who worry about key-loggers or inadequate network security [...]

We’ve been dying to see more Android in schools – whether it be for application development courses or devices used as companion tools for learning. We’ve seen middle schools and high schools adopt Android to teach budding programmers, and now the New Jersey Institute of Technology is offering public courses for anyone who wants to [...]

Search engine giant Google had introduced a new program called App Inventor in July 2010 which would allow anyone to create basic Android application for personal usage. Though the program created huge excitement, the major disappointment was that the tool was available in private beta version. But with Google announcing on its official Google Research [...]

Trillian, the popular multi-protocal IM client, released an Android version today in the form of an open beta. Some of the IM protocols include, but are not limited to, AIM, Gtalk, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, and IRC. You are required to register for a Trillian account to use the app, but all of your [...] [...]

If you’re still searching for the perfect singular entity that can handle all your messaging needs, take a look at Trillian for Android which has just reached public beta. Directly from Trillian’s site: Trillian for Android is ready for public beta testing! Learn more about this exciting new release of Trillian and grab your early [...]

If you call yourself a Twitter-file and don’t see the official Twitter app or any of the other numerous third party solutions as adequate to meet your fiendish social networking needs, there is a good chance you have been waiting eagerly for the release of TweetDeck. And it looks like your wait could be over [...]

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 [...]

Another day, another upgrade from Google. The latest service treated to new features is Google Maps on Android 1.6 or higher, which has added upcoming schedules at transit stations, more integration with Latitude, and live feedback from the Places page. You can download the update from the Market, but here

While Flash 10.1 for Android phones was announced at today’s keynote, it was slightly glossed over during the Froyo presentation (in a small round table discussion at after the Google TV presentation, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen delved into slightly more detail), but in any case, Adobe is announcing today the release of the public beta [...]