Archive for the ‘Platforms: AndroidOS’ Category

Android 2.0 SDK Released

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google’s Android team has officially announced the arrival of the Android 2.0 SDK called Eclair. The new SDK will bring developers loads of new API’s to play around with.

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Google Expands Analytics on iPhone and Android

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Google is in the process of updating it's Google Analytics platform. One of the updates will allow app and mobile game developers to track user engagement inside the apps and games.

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Paid Android Apps for Japan

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

One of the bigger gaming markets has opened up for commercial Android developers as Google has started to process payments for the Japanese Android Market.

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Odroid Developer Edition Sold Out

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Following our report on the availability of developer editions for the Odroid handheld games console, the company now reported that all units have sold out.

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Quarter of Android Purchases get Refunded

October 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It seems a very unlucky android developer experienced a refund rate of about 25% on its mobile game while providing a LITE version. This was reported by French site Pockett.net.

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ADV: 10% Discount on Android Training

October 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Next week, Holland 9 will organize a few training sessions for developers that are interested in learning more about Google's Android platform. Register via MGB and you will get a 10% discount.

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Easy Gestures in Android 1.6

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

With the release of the new Android 1.6 SDK, the team has introduced a new API that will help developers to support gestures without putting too much time in writing the actual code.

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Odroid on Preorder in Korea

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Korean developers can now sign up for reordering the developer edition of the new Odroid console. The Odroid console is a handheld Android gaming machine that seems to combine a PSP and iPhone.

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Cyanogen Keeps Working on Alternative Android

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last week, Android developer Cyanogen received a cease and desist letter from Google because it was violating the rules as it was distributing closed source applications in it's own Android versions.

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Android SDK 1.6 Released

September 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google's Android team has released version 1.6 of their Android SDK (Also known as Donut). The new SDK offers support for more screen sizes and CDMA based mobile phones.