Android Development

First off, you need your own ListView Adapter which extends SimpleAdapter. If you don’t know how to create a new class for your own SimpleAdapter, please go and visit this.

public class SpecialAdapter extends […]

From the android-developers blog:

This series started last month, and now registration is open for the European leg: Berlin — September 28 and 29. London — October 3 and 5. Paris — TBD (late October), but register now. Remember, this ADL series isn’t another set of introduction-to-Android sessions, nor any other kind of general overview. It’s…

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Badlogic Games announced a new version of libgdx. Straight from their website:

Hurray, a new libgdx version. Here’s the run-down of the most important changes, additions and fixes since 0.9.1. A metric ton of bug fixes, see the SVN commit log. Quite some improvements on the 3D API end. Still far from being done, you can see the [...]

Android development from the confort of Visual Studio IDE, especially if you want to develop using NDK? Why not. From the project’s website: Introduction vs-android is intended to provide a collection of scripts and utilities to support integrated development of Android NDK C/C++ software under Microsoft Visual Studio. Currently vs-android only…[Read more]

From the Google website:

Google Developer Day will come to eight cities around the world in 2011, bringing you the future in web and mobile technologies. These  one-day events  feature advanced technical content on Google platforms and products from the teams that work on them. Join us for the latest developments in  Android, Chrome, HTML5,…

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A while ago team-touchdroid uploaded a proof that HP TouchPad does dual boot Android and webOS

Now they made yet another important step forward and now HP TouchPad has working multitouch. To be more specific, has 10 point multitouch, as seems like the HP TouchPad supports up to 10 touch points. Video bellow:

Sometimes it’s desirable to use an alternate tool for building your applications, for various reasons. For Android, I’ve found an alternative based on the  scons build system. The extension can be downloaded from  here. From the Readme: Installation The easiest way to use this tool is to clone it into a site_scons/site_tools directory: mkdir -p…[Read more]

Thanks to the hard work of the guys developing cocos2d-x, cross-platform game development got a bit easier. From their site, cocos2d-x is:

“C++ port of cocos2d game engine. Multi-platform, light weight, developer-friendly, free and open source”

By opening possibility to use the same source for building the application on various mobile platforms…[Read more]

Great news for you Skype users out there. Android’s Skype client just gave itself a sizable update, officially bringing video calling to a number of new devices. Actually, the new version more than doubles the last update that supported a list comprised of just the Nexus S, Xperia neo and Xperia pro, and the Desire S. While a hacked version [...]

From Android developers blog , Posted by Tim Bray on 01 August 2011 at 4:43 PM: We in Android Developer Relations have been cooking up a rather special set of Android Developer Labs (ADLs) for the second half of 2011, and we’re ready to start the ball rolling. Here’s the schedule. These are one-day events, so in Seattle and New [...]

Just prior to the iPhone 5′s rumoured autumn release, a of the categorical rivals, the Samsung Galaxy S II seems to be achieving considerable sales, with some-more than 6 million units sole in reduction than 3 months, Digital Versus reports. Just progressing this month, the association had publicized 3 million units sole in only 55 days, plus [...]

After Sharp got the 3D smartphone race running back in Japan last year, LG introduced the Optimus 3D, and HTC pulled together the EVO 3D. Now the remaining major smartphone manufactures may be about to play catch-up, at least according to a report that Samsung may be prepping its own Galaxy 3D in time for a [...]

Android 3.2 Honeycomb, the latest version of Google’s open-source operating system, is now officially released. Motorola has already begun rolling the new OS out on its Xoom tablet. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, Acer’s Iconia Tab 500 and Toshiba’s Thrive are expected to follow shortly. The upgrade marks an improvement on Android 3.1 rather than the…[Read more]

TalkAndroid has a new contest. From their site: “Who doesn’t want some more storage space in their Android device? More room for pics, movies, music… it all sounds wonderful. But who’s got the extra money to spend? That’s where we come in. We want, nay – need to give away a class 16 GB class 4 micro SD card from [...]

Viewdle Inc  just announced the largest Android developer contest to date. Offering a grand prize of $25,000 to the winner of the contest makes this a must for anyone that wants to try their hand at entering. This is all based off the idea that face recognition software that is device based rather then cloud based is a [...]

From HARMAN‘s website: STAMFORD, Conn. – HARMAN International Industries announced today that it supports the Android Open Accessory Protocol, the first major technology partner in the automotive industry to offer the new connectivity standard. With the Android protocol built into HARMAN’s automotive offerings, users can seamlessly control…[Read more]

According to Engadget, Samsung Romania’s twitter account either leaked the next Nexus or just reposted some blog rumors.  “So far rumors of the next Nexus phone have been mostly whispered and unverifiable, but they appeared to get a strong confirmation when confirmation and specs were spotted on the Samsung Romania Twitter account…[Read more]

According to  gsmarena.com,  Gingerbread 2.3.4 update for Galaxy S is about to get a firmware update, bumping it’s android version to 2.3.4. The ROM already surfaced and the patient ones can grab it. The update is a minor one, but finally Google Talk video calls are enabled and there are reports about battery life improvements and seems like the [...]

According to a post from android-developers, Android devices are getting a new setting which will allow users to switch for any application which is not targeted to Android 3.0 the view mode between ‘Stretch  to fill screen’ and ‘Zoom to fill screen’ . “Stretch to fill screen” is normal layout resizing (using your app’s alternative resources for…[Read more]