While reading through some of the details of the Open Source Project site for Android, I stumbled across an interesting find, at least in my mind. Half of the Core Technical Team at Google working on Android, 5 of the 10, were previously employed with Be Inc., the company behind BeOS. I still remember late [...]
First a netbook and now Liquid!
Acer’s netbook showed up on Amazon yesterday and today they have a press release about their first Android powered smart phone, the Acer Liquid. It’s a snapdragaon powered Donut sporting (Android 1.6) smart phone with a nice Wide VGA screen, presumably 800×480. I guess this would fall into the definition of “Large” screen for an [...]
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 [...]
Intelligent Home Screen
Larve Labs, with the help of Ideas on Purpose, have gone and created yet another customized Android interface. This one seems a bit more simple than the HTC Sense UI, but definitely a stretch from the standard Android interface. They go and setup everything in a split screen, with more important items up top and [...]
