Archive for the ‘Platforms: AndroidOS’ Category

Samsung Starts UCS Rollout on Galaxy S II

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Samsung has started rolling out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to owners of the popular Galaxy S II smartphone. Samsung will phase-out the update over the next few days.

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Mika Mobile Ends Android Development

March 12th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Developer Mika Mobile has put a new article online on their blog in which the developer explains why it will seize to develop Android games. The main reason, the money, the second, annoyance with the market.

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Playstation Suite SDK in Open Beta Next Month

March 9th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Next month, developers can start making use of the open beta SDK for the Playstation Suite service. Sony has performing closed beta testing before, but stuck to mostly Japanese, US and UK developers.

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Google Said to Force Wallet Usage toward Developers

March 9th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

According to Reuters, Google has started to put pressure on Android developers to start using Google’s Wallet service for in-app payments. If they won’t switch, Google Play might become a no-go area to them.

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Bye bye Android Market, Hi Google Play

March 7th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last night, Google introduced Google Play. Google Play is set to replace the good old Android Market. Google hopes this move to the new identity will improve the discovery of non-app related content.

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Android Market now Supports 4GB Apps

March 6th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google has made a major change to the filesize restrictions on Android Market. From now on, Google will allow apps that are 4GB in size. That’s four times the amount of space Google provides on the standard Nexus One.

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Asus First with Android 5.0!?

March 5th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Asus is likely the first vendor to start producing tablets based on the Android 5.0 platform. With the Transformer Prime, Asus was one of the first to launch a tablet based on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).

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Google set to Launch Assistant to Battle Siri

March 5th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Some love it, others hate it. Apple’s personal assistant Siri. Following the Ziggy app on Windows Phone, Google is also preparing their Assistant to launch on the Android platform.

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Tapjoy Helps Tagplay Hop Onto Android

March 2nd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Tagplay has an amazing success with their iOS release of Funpark & Friends. To extend the reach of the game, Tagplay teamed up with Tapjoy to get the game out on the Android platform.

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MWC: Google Activates 850.000 Androids a Day

February 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

During the Mobile World Congress, Google’s Andy Rubin gave some insights as to how the Android platform is performing. Currently, Google is activating 850,000 new Android phones a day.

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