There's more than one way to write Android apps, and if you're working on something intense, you know using the NDK and native code is the way to go. If you're a part-time developer or anyone not part of a big mobile development house, you also know that some of the native development and debugging [...]
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! You’re probably still digesting turkey and scouring the web to find some Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. We’ve already spotted a few that may interest you, including a handful of app deals, so check those out first and prepare for the season. But in the mean time, here are some Android [...]
Happy Thanksgiving Android and Me readers. We hope you all are taking some time with family eating lots of good food, playing games, and watching a little football. While giving thanks for all the good things in your life, be sure to be mindful of those Android apps that you enjoy or that make your [...]
before after Mozilla has decided to change the tools used to build the Firefox for Android client front end, and changes are in store. In it's current iteration, Firefox uses XUL (a cross-platform toolkit used to design widgets and user interface elements), but will be switching to native Android [...]
Androinica.com browses the Google Play Store and tries to find a few quality apps that you may be interested in downloading. Each week, we look for quality games, productivity tools, social apps, and other gems to help make your Android phone eve more powerful that it is already. For the 99th edition, we’re taking a [...]
Amazon has announced that they will be opening their appstore to the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain this summer, with a "global" expansion planned to follow. There's no firm date as of yet, but they have changed the developer agreement and are already accepting submissions for apps to be distributed in the listed countries, [...]
Android is activating more than 900,000 devices each day according to Android head Andy Rubin. That’s a lot of phones and tablets, and a lot of people looking for solid apps to put on those devices. Each week, Androinica.com does a recap of new and updated apps released into the Google Play Store. If you [...]
We're a day late but worth the wait! Welcome to the latest iteration of our Android Apps of the Week, where we showcase apps that we find interesting. Have an app you think we should take a look at? Feel free to e-mail us and we'll give it a gander. And now, ladies and gentlemen, [...]
Facebook announced today that it is launching App Center, a new app discovery tool that highlights “social apps” – in other words, apps that use Facebook. The App Center, launching tonight for people in the United States and in the next few weeks elsewhere, is an app store within an app store. Facebook isn’t actually [...]
Google TV hasn’t fulfilled its promise thanks to resistance from content providers and a lack of big-name developers, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use Android as the backbone of your home entertainment options. Pocket TV, a Kickstarter project that has already been successfully funded, is a small micro-computer that plugs into an HDMI port [...]
