Samsung has announced that the press conference with the Google, scheduled for October 11 has been postponed. At this event, presumably, the two giants wanted to present a smartphone based on the new version of the Google Android. Although this is clearly not indicated, probable cause of the transfer of the presentation could be the death of the founder of Apple Steve Jobs. According... [More]

  Japanese operator Softbank introduced new smartphone Sharp AQUOS 104SH. The most interesting about this device  is that, it  will be running the operating system Android Ice Cream Sandwich. However this device will come into the market in the spring of next year. The new model is very productive and different advanced features. Thus, it is based on dual-core processor TI OMAP... [More]

It looks like Google Inc. continues purchasing the intellectual property of third-party manufacturers to protect the OS Android and partner companies. Not long ago, the U.S. Patent Office has published data showing the acquisition by Google of a large share of patents IBM, which includes over a thousand items. According to Bloomberg, last month, Google has owned 1023 patents describing a va... [More]

Some photos of the powerful Android-smartphone HTC Amaze 4G(HTC Ruby) have leaked in the network [More]

People in Google face hard times selling Nexus One and this time they are proud to present Nexus S Which a younger brother of his failed, so to say. Let’s have a closer look at what we are offered. Once it is in your hands you definitely say what “S” stands for. The peculiar thing you will inevitably notice is that is looks too much like Samsung Galaxy S and that is where the ... [More]

Android tablet devices or "pads", are soon to come to the market in massive amounts. Some of them are already available, but most experts will tell you that the best devices, including one from Google, are yet to appear. Regardless of that, as a developer, you have to be a step ahead and test your applications for tablet compatibility right now. How to do that if you don't own a device? I'll try ... [More]

Android 2.2 gets more and more massive. Nexus One owners have been running official Froyo for a while already, EVOs are getting the update these very days and only lazy Droid owners (out of those who care) did not upgrade their devices to 2.2 manually yet. Obviously, the rest of 2.x devices are getting Froyo quite soon as well. As developers, we are more affected by new platform versions than con... [More]

The web browser is perhaps the most important application on any consumer platform these days. Android has a powerful WebKit-based web browser that can be useful not only to end users, but to developers as well. In order for you to be able to integrate the web browser engine into your apps and use it for various purposes, the platform provides the WebView component. The W... [More]

In addition to situations where you want to improve performance of critical parts of your code by rewriting them in C, as it was shown in the previous article, there is another common use case for Android NDK. Often you will find useful pieces of legacy code written in C and you'll want to use them in your apps. In this case, your obvious choice would be to try to use NDK to attach the legacy code... [More]

Contrary to what some inexperienced developers think, NDK is not a silver bullet for any performance problem that you face in your app. Before you make a decision to rewrite a portion of your code in C, you have to think twice. Your effort might not pay off as much as you think, as NDK is not unconditionally faster than Dalvik code. If you already spent some time learning NDK, then you know that ... [More]