The android-x86 project got updated recently to support Android 4.0 ICS! If you want to see the latest version of android running smooth on your computer (we all know how slow the official emulator is), this is definitely a solution worth trying.
I’ve recently discovered a neat way of running Android on my PC, thanks to some cool (and very very smart) developers: http://www.android-x86.org/getsourcecode I discovered the website while I was trying to find a way of running Honeycomb (Android 3.0) , since the emulator is slow as hell even on my quad-core machine. So, follow the [...]
After just a couple of months since it’s launch, Antivirus Free is now in the top 25 applications in the “Tools” category on the Android Market. Thanks to all of those who supported this great free application!
Here’s a very easy and fast way of parsing JSON I’ve been using the past few months: Jackson. It’s not Android-based, so you can use it on server or desktop applications as well, but I found it very useful on mobile because of the large amounts of data that resides in the cloud lately. Enough [...]
One of the things I had to learn the hard way on Android is the correct way of handling Bitmaps. And honestly, I wouldn’t have thought this is the right way if someone at Google wouldn’t have suggested it to me. Every time you create a bitmap, either blank or from a source using BitmapFactory, [...]
Most probably in less than a year we’ll have quad-core tablets. Source: engadget Finally, hopefully, I’ll be able to play some cool strategy games on a tablet. I honestly believe that multi-touch tablets are the perfect gaming devices, so I’m really looking forward to that!
We all know how ugly most of the applications on the Market are. Black screens, gray buttons, white texts, all native stuff which looks good but only in the right combination. Many developers realize that, and try to do their own buttons, which still don’t look too professional, because they simply don’t fit in. And [...]
In spite of what I think of my writing skills and my apps’ descriptions, it looks like someone else thinks it’s good enough to copy them to their apps I’ve recently discovered an application on the Android market, called “Antivirus – Risk Detector” by Easy Filters, which competes with Antivirus Free. It’s nothing like my [...]
I learned one important thing today: When you do layout from code and you use drawables (nine-patches or xml-defined drawables), always using setPadding only after setBackground. I know, this might be a childish thing that Android developers already know about, but it made me bang my head around the walls for 15 minutes today Explanation: [...]
As opposed to Apple’s AppStore, 65% of the apps on the Android Market are free. So, where’s the trick ? Well, most of them show ads, you (the user) view those ads and when something interesting is shown you even click them. And that’s when the developer makes money. Sometimes $0.01 per click, sometimes $3.5 per click (at least that’s my record). Usually, those ads come from Google’s AdMob, Millennial Media or ZestAdz (there are more, but these are the largest three).