Android Development

Hi,You probably know the android-x86 project.
With the ICS release, the VirtualBox has disappeared. So, I proposed to work on the VirtualBox support for android-x86, thanks to the work I’ve done to support VBox […]

Canonical’s newly announced ‘Ubuntu for Android‘ technology has made a lot of people very excited. 

But words and pictures can only relay so much about how the device, which is still a prototype, works.

Can […]

The phone industry is hurtling towards a destiny positively brimming with sugarplum quad cores. Starting with NVIDIA Tegra 3, all and sundry are looking to a quartet of cores as the final step in the evolutionary […]

“We learned on January 31 that Barnes & Noble had suffered a major setback in a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against the company by Microsoft. That day, an administrative law judge at the International Trade […]

Chrome on Galaxy Nexus matches iPhone 4S in GPU render test (http://bit.ly/x2SOL1) at 60 fps. Android Browser did 9 fps. #webperf

News via Guypod

From Mark Brown blog:

Earlier today I gave a talk at Android Builders Summit about TinyHAL, a generic audio HAL for Android aimed providing a better basis for system integrators to work from. More details on […]

But the most explosive section is where Barnes & Noble describes what Microsoft said to them when they approached Barnes & Noble with a demand that they pay for a patent license:

“And what they basically told us […]

“Apple Inc has asked a federal court in California to block Samsung Electronics Co Ltd from selling its new Galaxy Nexus smartphones, alleging patent violations. In a suit filed last week in San Jose, Apple said […]

Download the bin for your platform 32 or 64 binary

Open Terminal

cd ~/Downloads

Uncompress it
If you are using the 32 bit version

sh jdk-6u30-linux-i586.bin

or on 64 bit version

sh […]

Following a number of delays, an Android version of the popular open source VLC Media Player has entered private beta testing. The VideoLAN project developers say that they “will select a few people to test some […]

Wow LibreOffice port project to Android was announced , what does it means is that slowly we will have alamost a full Linux Desktop distro app stack on android (Chrome , Firefox , VLC , Necessitas -include here […]

Install jdk [DONE]
Install sdk [DONE]

Dowload fastboot

wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/replicant/images/replicant-2.3/preview/0002/tools/fastboot
chmod +x fastboot

or you can use the one from sdk in from […]

I got myself a second-hand Samsung Galaxy S at last, and started hacking on it!
The very first thing I wanted to try was porting the OpenGL wikibook C++ samples, that we wrote with OpenGL ES 2 in mind.
I started […]

My hope was for 90% of users (2.2,2.3) but only 4.0 gets the Cream of the speed Chrome is now available in Beta from Android Market, in select countries and languages for phones and tablets with Android 4.0, Ice […]

I am happy to announce that the basic infra-structure for a LCL-Android widgetset is done

and this includes:

* An example LCL-Android application is located inside the Lazarus sources in […]

Kivy 1.0.7. was just released.
kivy is the most awesome framework (for any language) for creating stunning user interfaces with support for a wide variety of input modalities like multi-touch, […]