Android SDK Tools Revision 19

Posted on 01/05/2012 by Mr. Appz

Few days ago, Google released a new revision of Android SDK tools, this version is only available trough SDK Manager, and not as standalone download as the previous revisions.

The main issue resolved is concerning to some developers that can´t run GPU acceleration on the emulator.

A new revision of Android support package has been released too.

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Google releases a new cloud service, Google Drive

Posted on 24/04/2012 by Mr. Appz

Few minutes ago, Google introduces in our live one new service called Google Drive.

This new service is an updated version of Google Docs, the main features are described below this lines.

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Android SDK Tools Release 18 and updated Emulator

Posted on 09/04/2012 by Mr. Appz

Today, our friends of Android have released a new version of the SDK tools, is only an update of SdkController app to encapsulate both sensor and multitouch emulation functionality. And some issues for Ant fixed.

But today the Android Developers Blog has a new entry, about the simulator that is updated too today, in the new simulator we can test our apps using built-in GPU support (included on Android 4.0.4), and this performance boost is amazing as you can see on the video below:

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Instagram released for Android

Posted on 03/04/2012 by Mr. Appz

The “social network” for cell phones finally arrives to Android devices. Is a very simple app, you take the photo, then you apply some effects to the photo and finally you upload the photo to the network. You can follow people and people can follow you, this is the social touch of this app. Continue reading →

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Android SDK revision 17 released

Posted on 02/04/2012 by Mr. Appz

On March 22nd a new revision of Android SDK was released:

The main improvements are described below to these lines:

  • Emulator now supports accelerated graphics rendering.
  • Added support for multi-touch input on emulator, using a USB tethered Android device.
  • Added viewing of live detailed network usage of an app in DDMS
  • Updated Pro-Guard tool to avoid some issues on the compiling process, and to improve the behaviour of the apps.
  • Added a feature that allows you to run some code only in debug mode
  • Added support for custom views with custom attributes in libraries
  • Updated Lint to check Android application code
  • Added support on Lint for checking library projects

There are a lot of useful updates on this new release of Android SDK Tools, and I hope that I will use them in a short period of time ;)

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News from Android World

Posted on 19/03/2012 by Mr. Appz

In the last month, there are some news on android world:

  • The most important one is the release of Google Play: Google Play is a cloud of services provided by Google as is composed by: Play Store (the former Android Market), and Music, Videos and Books apps now are Play Music, Play Videos and Play Books. The aim of the new system is provide more contents to the older platform. The new app is distributed by OTA to android devices that have Android 2.2 or higher.
  • Another important notice is that Android apps could grow until 4 GB, the limit of 50 MB is outdated and now games and other apps could grow in order to make better the user experience. You must develop the main apk with a limit os space of 50 MB like now, but you can add two expansion files of 2 GB each.

I hope that these two news are important for you.

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Waiting for ICS on my Galaxy S II

Posted on 19/03/2012 by Mr. Appz

I know that people that has ICS on their cell phones, now have problems with LED flash light using Colour Light Lite.

I´m waiting for the update on my devices in order to develop a new version that fixes this issue. So I think that in a month I will update Colour Light Lite again.

Now I´m working on other kind of apps, and I hope that I will release a new one in a few weeks.

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