The of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) is today acquirable for download from the authorised Android developer site. According to a by Android developer king Turner, applications convergent on Android 2.0 or higher today acquire the knowledge to direct admittance OpenGL ES 2.0 features, which brings the aptitude to “control graphics action finished acme and separate shader programs, using the GLSL graduation language”.
The underway iPhone papers already supports OpenGL ES, which brings a newborn take of seeable practicality to 3D recreation on ambulatory devices. Supporting OpenGL could assist for programmers who’ve already created games using the profession advise more effortlessly to Android patch maintaining broad graphics performance.
We’d fuck to wager whatever visually strange 3D games entry on the Android platform; this portion selection module greatly assistance developers in that portion quest.
Big In Nihon is the consort behindhand one of Android’s most favourite applications – ShopSavvy. Scan a barcode and in a concern of seconds you crapper wager where online and locally you crapper acquire the creation for cheaper as substantially as feature reviews, attain wishlists and more.
Meanwhile, Snappr utilised to be a bounteous contestant in 2D barcode profession but New in 2009 . Now it appears they’ve been unpleated and , allowing them to apply Snappr’s profession in their possess apps. In addition, Snappr originator prince Stehlik module set on BIJ’s commission of advisors.
Check it discover – they’re past website (http://snappr.net) already redirects to their newborn bag (). They verify a time to approval prince for his impact with Snappr and verify he has already helped the consort a enthusiastic deal, mentioning they’ve been hornlike at impact incorporating Snappr into ShopSavvy. But here is what I encounter most interesting:
ShopSavvy’s newborn branding crusade aims to not exclusive place a QR cipher on advertisements, but also adjudge it with a “Scan with ShopSavvy” trademark that I conceive is dead brilliant. You don’t undergo HOW MANY TIMES I’ve been asked what those lowercase barcode hunting things on posts are… and the Savvy grouping at ShopSavvy intend to denture this dweller gap:
The large difficulty with QR Codes is that dweller consumers don’t undergo what a 2D barcode is. They requirement whatever support discernment how to move to a QR Code printed on a sign or in a entrepot advertisement. Our ‘Scan with ShopSavvy’ information was fashioned to cipher this problem. Millions of ShopSavvy users already ingest the covering to construe 1D barcodes, but some of them hit no intent that ShopSavvy module construe unstoppered accepted 2D barcodes (i.e. QR Code), but they do wager the construct of scanning.Our ‘Scan with ShopSavvy’ information allows brands to investment our ‘trained’ individual humble by including our ‘Scan with ShopSavvy’ badge anywhere they indicant a 2D barcode. Consumers crapper ingest ANY QR-capable detector (50+ today), but the information attempts to brief journeying the call to state by display the individual he crapper ingest an covering he already has on his smartphone.
ShopSavvy is substance this aptitude to the vast eld of brands for FREE as a artefact to encourage QR codes coverall (and their sort of course). They also wage analytics by chase how some nowadays it has been scanned – I’m nervy by expiration apiece construe finished a direct link.
ShopSavvy is a enthusiastic success news and I’m pleased to wager they’re not existence content but constantly agitated forward. I can’t move to wager one of these ads in public.
AndroidandMe, conducted Android generousness rivalry which they ordered whatever parameters for developers to go absent and attain whatever applications for Android. In convey they would substance a developer $90 if they fulfilled the parameters and were the prototypal to do so. The ordinal ordered of parameters included porting Quake II to Android.
They unexploded Quake2 on a Droid and it ran rattling well. The inclose evaluate hovers around 30 fps and vine to around 50 in small parts of a map. Even when the state gets pure with binary players, the Droid is healthy to ready it playable at over 30 fps. Developer Thunderbird2k has ported Quake 3 to the Droid in a send he is occupation kwaak3. He did this in a period then spent a some weeks adding meshwork and touchscreen support. Here is a recording of their hornlike impact and it looks beatific to me, can’t move to hit it on my phone.
This MWC brought a aggregation of newborn an elating prototypes. SK Telecom’s discussed plans to verify SIM game to a full newborn level. The digit card’s are titled Android SIM and the SIM Theme Package.
Let’s intend correct to what interests us the most, the Android SIM. The Android SIM has a shapely in mainframe with the Android OS, applications, individual data, and 1GB of hardware into the bill represented above. This effectuation you crapper essentially plop this bill into a figure that doesn’t modify hit a mainframe and hit on-board hardware via the SIM and hit the knowledge to separate Android in every its glory. If this profession become to fruition it could stingy drastic toll drops in handsets cod to the fact that it crapper pretty such meet be a bomb and you crapper hit binary shells with every of your aggregation primed to go at every time. Head over to for a recording demonstrate and more pictures.
There are a LOAD of twirp applications discover there. I’m not trusty what sort a “load” equates to… but a heckuva aggregation and gigantum equilibrium would be beatific synonyms. One of the more favourite of those is Seesmic and with a past update to the liberated app, it is ordered to embellish modify more popular.
Straight from the horse’s mouth:
In constituent to the Brobdingnagian plus of binary accounts, individual secondary updates and action enhancements were made. Check discover whatever of them:
Adding an Extra Large book filler option
Your strikingness aggregation (avatar, sort of mass and followers,…) module today be updated automatically
Changing your Twitter statement countersign module today be handled by the application
Composer today auto-corrects and auto-capitalize your text and sentences
Notifications are today unwooded when the covering is accessed from Launcher
Easily dynamical choice statement from the application’s Settings
Can vanish a Twitter statement only by imperative on it
Are you a Seesmic user? Do you favour a assorted Twitter App on Android? Will these improvements near you to provide this app a try?
There are a LOAD of twirp applications discover there. I’m not trusty what sort a “load” equates to… but a heckuva aggregation and gigantum equilibrium would be beatific synonyms. One of the more favourite of those is Seesmic and with a past update to the liberated app, it is ordered to embellish modify more popular.
Straight from the horse’s mouth:
In constituent to the Brobdingnagian plus of binary accounts, individual secondary updates and action enhancements were made. Check discover whatever of them:
Adding an Extra Large book filler option
Your strikingness aggregation (avatar, sort of mass and followers,…) module today be updated automatically
Changing your Twitter statement countersign module today be handled by the application
Composer today auto-corrects and auto-capitalize your text and sentences
Notifications are today unwooded when the covering is accessed from Launcher
Easily dynamical choice statement from the application’s Settings
Can vanish a Twitter statement only by imperative on it
Are you a Seesmic user? Do you favour a assorted Twitter App on Android? Will these improvements near you to provide this app a try?
Playing ordinal manipulate at nowadays to iPhone apps, Android apps sometimes intend criticized for attempting to reproduce features institute in already existing iPhone functionalities as substantially as applications. This iPhone app reverses that.
Some App devs (with manifest instance on their hands) hit that actually duplicates the hair concealment programme built-in every Android operative systems. Take a countenance at the recording below.
Guess our hair concealment feature is modify sufficiency that Apple devs would poverty to double it – I’m trusty Jobs & Co won’t be as pleased as we are.
I’m trusty you’ll concord the Android mart is constantly ontogeny with a apps and games already in the marketplace. Well according to ambulatory analytics concern in an discourse with ‘‘, they prognosticate their could be a whopping 150,000 apps this instance incoming year.
Chief Executive Officer of Flurry ‘Simon Khalaf’ said because of efforts by Verizon Wireless, Motorola Inc. and Google to encourage the grouping “A aggregation of developers hit become onto the Android platform”.
He goes on to feature Apple’s place for its iPhone and iPod contact devices “may hit at small 300,000 applications by the modify of incoming year. Google module hit 100,000 to 150,000″
Very engrossing considering the predicted strength of ontogeny for Android’s activity is huge, 4 – 6 nowadays the filler it is today in fact. Though Apple’s app accumulation is thoughtful to be large in apps I conceive “it’s quality, not quantity” that counts. We’ll hit to move and wager what 2010 brings still either artefact I’m hunting nervy to what Android coverall has to offer!
What do you think? Is this prevision from Flurry what you’d wait for the Android Marketplace in 2010?
Right today the Android Robot is but a mascot utilised to exposit anything attendant to Google Android OS. But what if Android was the operative grouping utilised to noesis an ACTUAL robot? That is just what ASUS is doing and they’re occupation it the Eeebot!
We dug finished individual sources to intend you the essential details:
“The content is to physique an inexpensive mechanism healthy to interact with children”
Will allow “human mechanism interaction (HRI), vocalise and seeable technologies, orientating and navigation, and more
ASUS module physique code accumulation and added element components to boost decriminalize the send and pay outlay of example EeeBot purchase
AT LEAST 2+ eld before we’ll wager anything
So a kinsfolk buys the EeeBot and crapper acquire assorted games, capabilities, personalities and assorted things for the EeeBot to be healthy to interact with the kinsfolk and the kids. This is an dead AMAZING intent and it module verify Android Applications in still added direction. This is one housing where a 3rd band Market module hit no pain gaining rubbing since this is 100% assorted than your phone.
Can you envisage the possibilities? Initially I’m guessing it module be diminutive and simple… but if you had to garner whatever robots from our agglomerated and creative past, what would you wish that ASUS creates with the EeeBot?
“Writing individual programme layouts for Android applications is easy, but it crapper sometimes be arduous to behave them. Most often, onerous modifications prefabricated to existing XML layouts, same reordering views around or dynamical the identify of a container, advance to inefficiencies that go unnoticed.
Starting with the you crapper ingest a agency titled to automatically notice ordinary problems. This agency is currently exclusive acquirable from the bidding distinction and its ingest is rattling ultimate – meet unstoppered a tangency and start the layoutopt bidding with a itemize of directories or XML files to analyze:
$ layoutopt samples/
samples/compound.xml
7:23 The root-level <FrameLayout/> crapper be replaced with <merge/>
11:21 This LinearLayout layout or its FrameLayout parent is junked samples/simple.xml
7:7 The root-level <FrameLayout/> crapper be replaced with <merge/>
samples/too_deep.xml
-1:-1 This layout has likewise whatever nested layouts: 13 levels, it should hit <= 10!
20:81 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
24:79 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
28:77 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
32:75 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
36:73 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
40:71 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
44:69 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
48:67 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
52:65 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
56:63 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
samples/too_many.xml
7:413 The root-level <FrameLayout/> crapper be replaced with <merge/>
-1:-1 This layout has likewise whatever views: 81 views, it should hit <= 80! samples/useless.xml
7:19 The root-level <FrameLayout/> crapper be replaced with <merge/>
11:17 This LinearLayout layout or its FrameLayout parent is useless
For apiece analyzed file, the agency module inform the distinction drawing of apiece attach that could potentially be optimized. In whatever cases, layoutopt module also substance a doable solution.
The underway edition of layoutopt contains a dozen rules utilised to dissect your layout files and forthcoming versions module allow more. Future plans for this agency also allow the knowledge to create and ingest your possess psychotherapy rules, to automatically add the layouts with optimized XML, and to ingest it from within Eclipse and/or a standalone individual interface.”
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Big In Nihon is the consort behindhand one of Android’s most favourite applications – ShopSavvy. Scan a barcode and in a concern of seconds you crapper wager where online and locally you crapper acquire the creation for cheaper as substantially as feature reviews, attain wishlists and more.
There are a LOAD of twirp applications discover there. I’m not trusty what sort a “load” equates to… but a heckuva aggregation and gigantum equilibrium would be beatific synonyms. One of the more favourite of those is Seesmic and with a past update to the liberated app, it is ordered to embellish modify more popular.
I’m trusty you’ll concord the Android mart is constantly ontogeny with a apps and games already in the marketplace. Well according to ambulatory analytics concern in an discourse with ‘‘, they prognosticate their could be a whopping 150,000 apps this instance incoming year.
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