Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
In the past few months I've noticed an increased number of posts questioning practicesaround deleting and "virtually" deleting data from databases. Since someof the concerns around this practice have to do with the impact of soft deletes onscalability of a database-based application, I thought it would be a good topic formy (Read More)
Android and Me:
Several of your favorite Android sites are joining forces to present the Android Events Calendar. We plan to list all the latest Android-related podcasts, trade shows, developer conferences, meetups, product launches, and noteable application release dates.http://androidandme.com/calendarWe chose to use Google Calendar so a (Read More)
Phones Review:
Now here is something very interesting to ask our readers “Could Google Chrome OS and Android come together for mobile phones?” well apparently Google has confessed according to The Register that Chrome OS and Android projects are most likely to come together one day.Google will continue to play around with its operating sy (Read More)
Engadget:
Guess what, prospective Milestone owners, the Droid's one major advantage over its Euro cousin has just been coded out of existence by those proactive, un-American XDA Developers. The free Google Maps Navigation service, whose US announcement was so shocking as to decimate the stock prices of satnav purveyors Garmin and Tom (Read More)
Gizmodo:
"Android and Chrome will likely converge over time," says Google's Sergey Brin, echoing the cryptic sentiment first mentioned by a reluctant Eric Schmidt back in July. Today, it's exactly as confusing as it was four months ago. Google, asked how on earth this slow-motion, oddly-planned scenario would play out, gives mixed r (Read More)
Engadget:
The CrunchPad may or may not have stumbled, but competitors seem to be swooping in for the kill regardless. The latest is Camangi with its WebStation, a 7-inch, Android 1.5-powered tablet said to be shipping in just a few weeks. Detailed specs have still not been made official, but the glass touchscreen is 800 x 480, WiFi 8 (Read More)
Gizmodo:
"Android and Chrome will likely converge over time," says Google's Sergey Brin, echoing the cryptic sentiment first mentioned by a reluctant Eric Schmidt back in July. Today, it's exactly as confusing as it was four months ago. Google, asked how on earth this slow-motion, oddly-planned scenario would play out, gives mixed r (Read More)
Android Phone Fans:
Google Navigation is awesome – there is no doubt about it – and having your mobile phone double as your GPS Navigation device is amazing on a number of different levels. But if you could have an in-car navigation system that was based on Android and embedded in your dashboard, would you be interested? Archermind is hopin (Read More)
Android and Me:
What is Google’s answer to the ever increasing Android fragmentation? They choose to develop web applications that run in a mobile browser instead of trying to build native apps for every platform. Google first hinted at this strategy during this year’s Google I/O and they have stayed true to their word. Sure we have seen s (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google just announced the launch of its Google Maps Navigation app for Android 1.6 and higher. Until now, Google's turn-by-turn navigation app was only available on Android 2.0 phones like Motorola's Droid. Now users of older Android handsets like the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and G1 can get free turn-by-turn navigation courtesy (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Google Maps Navigation, even if it's not perfect, was one of the juiciest features of Android 2.0. Today, Google's finally set it free: It's now available for any handset with Android 1.6 Donut, including the G1 and MyTouch 3G. The download is live in the App Market—just download the newest version of Maps, and it's hidden (Read More)
Android and Me:
Android fragmentation is real and it is not going away. Ask any developer and they will tell you about the difficulties of supporting multiple versions of Android and their different screen sizes.So what exactly does Android fragmentation look like?Android visitors to androidandme.comThe above data was generated by Google A (Read More)
Android Phone Fans:
One advantage the iPhone OS has over Android is the capability of in-app purchases. Want to buy weapons, credits, add-ons, extensions or anything WITHIN your game or application that goes above and beyond the initial free or paid application? Too bad… until now. While this feature isn’t SUPPOSED to be enabled within Andr (Read More)
jkOnTheRun:
Android is the hot phone platform, with market share growing at a rapid pace, and handsets with the OS being touted across the web. I have been impressed with how far Android has come in a relatively short time, and how well it has penetrated the market. Windows Mobile has seen recent updates, an all-too-infrequent occurren (Read More)
Android Phone Fans:
Over the past year, Amazon has had some REALLY good offers on Android Phones, starting when they were offering a $98 T-Mobile G1 when the carrier themselves were still selling it for $179.99. I was pretty excited to see what Amazon would have in terms of Black Friday Android offerings and when I heard it would be Black W (Read More)