It is looking like the month of May, 2010 should be providing Google’s Android OS a little kick. Not that it really needed one, considering the rate at which Android apps are being released to the market or the shear number of Android handsets/devices on the market to date. Unofficially, the Android market now boasts [...]
Android Weekend Wrap Up
Let’s see what happened over the weekend in the world of Android. There was some huge buzz about a Google Android party going on, which turned out to be just an annual BBQ party and not the Froyo 2.2 excitement many had speculated. I noticed AndroidCentral even went so far as to remove their original [...]
Future Release of Android OS with Support Apps on SD Card
One area where Android is lacking has been in memory and on board storage of Applications. The first iterations of Android phones came with 256MB of on board memory (HTC Dream / G1) and that was used to store the base operating system as well as the applications users downloaded from the market. Not long [...]
Android 2.2 to support Flash 10.1 Directly
Image by Joi via Flickr More excited news from Android’s Andy Rubin, you know, the engineer in charge of Android OS. Android 2.2 will come with built in support for Flash 10.1 he tells New York Times. He didn’t go into great details on how exactly that will be implemented, but my guess is through [...]
Android – New User Interface Patterns at Google I/O
The Google I/O conference is schedule for May 19th – 20th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. During that time, developers of all things Google from Google Chrome to Android will be gathering for technical sessions, developer sandbox events and general information exchange. Of course, here at the Droids, we’re mostly interested in [...]
After Froyo, Android OS becomes Gingerbread
Google has a history of naming releases of it’s Android OS after yummy treats in alphabetical order. While “A” and “B” were never really know, the order became Cupcake (Android 1.5), Donut (1.6), Eclair(2.0) and the next will be Froyo(unknown). After that it becomes Gingerbread(unknown) and you have to build a little house out of [...]
Froyo – Next Iteration of Android OS
Well, this is an interesting tidbit from Erick Tseng. According to the Google senior product manager of Android, The next version of Android will not be called Flan, but instead will be “Froyo” a.k.a. Frozen Yogurt. I hope they don’t take too long with it or it will be more like Melyo, Melted Yogurt. This [...]
