Just this morning Google began showing off it’s beta Navigation product, which I highlighted a little in the Motorola / Verizon Wireless Droid announcement. It is an excellent announcement and will be available for all Android devices running Android 2.0. Of course, it’s in Beta format, which is typical of Google, so we’ll see how [...]
Firefox for Android – Yeah, it’s coming.
In a not so surprising announcement, Mozilla said they will be releasing Firefox for Android. It’ll surely come in the form of Fennec, their current mobile browser. The first reports from Mozilla indicated they wouldn’t pursue android, but after the recent rush of products to the market and the momentum buildup over the last few [...]
Gestures on Android 1.6
Google’s Android Developers Blog has released some details on it’s gestures framework that’s included with Android 1.6. It looks like a great way for developers to add custom gesture interaction with their applications, such as back, forward, add, remove, delete etc. It will help reduce the amount of time app makers have to spend on [...]
MOTODEV Studio for Android
While this isn’t breaking news, it’s still worth writing about. Motorola is set to be focused on Android, heck they’ve even made the statement that they are going full speed towards Android. And recently, they’ve stated they won’t even support WinMo 6.5. Most interesting indeed. However, back to the subject at hand, the MOTODEV Studio [...]
Android and the Market
There is an interesting article over at ZDNet with five reasons why Android will beat out the iPhone, WinMo and Blackberry as well as WebOS. It’s a good read and basically the five reasons are as follows: Android is powered by Google Android is improving quickly Android is open Android will run on different phones [...]
More Details on 1.6 Text-To-Speech
Today Google expanded on some more details for the upcoming Text-To-Speech API found in Donut, a.k.a. v1.6. The Android Developers Blog explains the languages and resources for the TTS API, indicating there are five languages currently supported; English, French, Germany, Italian and Spanish. There are even two versions of English, US and UK. It seems [...]
Layar going 3D
Layar, the Android app developer who makes an app of the same name, has shown that they are moving towards 3D and should be there in November. Layar provides an augmented realty application supporting different layers of data, such as maps of restaurants, subway maps etc. It works with the phone’s GPS, compass and accelerometers [...]
