Android

Smart Telecommunications, a wireless mobile network provider in the Philippines, is spearheading the country’s effort to push Android development. Together with HTC, Smart has just opened up the registration for the SMART Mobile Developer Conference that will be held on September 11, 2009 at Science Discovery Park in Mall of Asia from 9am to 5pm.

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You can now view, edit and create Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and as a bonus view Adobe PDF files on your Android-powered smartphone. This has all been made possible by a company called DataViz whose Documents To Go software has been made available for the Android platform.

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Creative Labs has announced a new computer called “Zii Egg”. What’s exciting about the new platform is that it uses a new type of computer inside the device that has the ability to “shapeshift” into a function that you need. Creative has dubbed it the “StemCell” computer analogous to the basic building block discovered in medical science.

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Google has decided that the first Android Developer Challenge (ADC) isn’t enough so now they have announced the second Android Developer Challenge! The announcement comes with the recent release of Android 1.5, as well as the availability of devices. News around the Net indicate that there will be as many as 20 Android devices in the market before the end of 2009

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I’ve just read an announcement that the Android SDK 1.5 will be released around the end of the month. In the mean time developers can get access to a pre-release version to enable them to start using the Android SDK 1.5 during development. It looks like a bunch of Cupcake mods will be made available in SDK 1.5 of Android. Some of the new features in Android SDK 1.5 include soft keyboards, home screen widgets, live folders, and speech recognition.

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Gameloft is really pouring it on to maintain it’s position as the current leading game publisher and developer. They have just announced 20 mobile games for the Android open mobile platform. The mobile games will be available via the Android Market.

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MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA, SPAIN – FEBRUARY 16, 2009 – NVIDIA today announced that it has worked closely with Google and the Open Handset Alliance to unleash Android, a complete, open mobile phone software stack, with the Tegra™ series of ‘computer-on-a-chip’ processors. By supporting Android, manufacturers and operators can now easily use a Tegra processor to build mobile phones with advanced user experiences that leverage web and Internet content and provide services such as mobile mash-ups and location-based applications.

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The Android development team has just made available version 1.1 release 1 of the Android SDK. This is inline with the recent updates to Android devices providing new features and functionality. API changes are quite minor. Several items have been fixed, some new features for the Map and dialer have been added, plus several API changes. You can check out the release notes.

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Opera Mini for the Android open mobile platform finally gets released. Opera offers web browsers in different platforms that include desktop PCs and other mobile phones. Now have an alternative web browser on your Android cell phone. You can download the Opera Mini 4.2 web browser for Android based mobile phones from the Opera download site.

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Eversince Google released the Android open mobile platform SDK, they have a plugin for Eclipse that enables developers to create Android applications under Eclipse. But that didn’t stop some guys to create an equivalent Android SDK plugin for Netbeans. The project has been continued since then.

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