Everyone is familiar with Google Maps. The Maps are available on almost any platform, and whenever you want to look up something on a map, most of the time you will use the one from Google. The Maps are also available for Android, as a control that you can embed in your app and use for various geographic features. Although MapView itself is quite easy to understand and it has a nice API, creating... [More]

If you started your mobile development on a platform like Java ME, you will probably appreciate the heap sizes that Android gives to its apps. In fact, the minimum heap size that the Android compatibility guide requires is 16 Mb, and the more typical size is 24 Mb. This seems to be large enough for a typical app, so you should rarely run into out of memory issues with simple apps. That, however, ... [More]

The MVC (model-view-controller) pattern has been extremely popular in web application frameworks, but even if you never developed for the Web, I am sure that you at least heard this term before. Today we will develop a simple star rating widget that looks like this: This widget works the following way: every time you tap it, the number of stars increases by 1. If there were 5 stars, the rating... [More]

11 Awesome Android Travel Apps To Assist You This Summer Planning to travel this summer? What about using your Android phone to take care of all your travel needs? Here we have a list of Android apps that can be very useful while you travel. We tried to include all the relevant ones here. But if you know some good ones outside our list, feel free to share it with us in the comment ... [More]

  Vuvuzela is the musical instrument from South Africa that became world famous with the FIFA World Cup in 2010. For some people it is really annoying and for others it adds to the spirit of the game. Many apps were developed to deliver such an experience on your phone. At the push of a button, they emit a constant squawk, just like the real horns. One such app&... [More]

Norton would soon be releasing Norton Smartphone Security for Android. It has not published exact release date but will be available via Android market. It joins growing list of security app available on Android platform. Products like WaveSecure, SMobile security shield, Mobile Defense, Mobile Security, and Security suite are already fighting for user attention in this highly visible space. ... [More]

Android is undeniably one of the hottest products available to customers living in this era of technology. From the beginning, smartphone sales under the Android OS have zoomed across the globe. In the US alone, the figures show that in the first quarter of 2010, Android landed in the 2nd place after the giant Blackberry OS. So much is the hoopla surrounding the And... [More]

Android will be able to catch up with the iPhone with the launch of the new DoubleTwist player. At first sight, you may think that Android has borrowed the iPhone’s media player. It sports a desktop application that can synchronize podcasts and iTunes playlists. What that makes this different from the iPhone’s player, is that it supports two-way synchronization for ratings and other ... [More]

You would have already saved money if you have an Android instead of a iPhone! But here is another thing: we are going to tell you how you can save more money using an Android. So we have compiled a list of apps that you need to get your hands on so that they can be away from that fat wallet. WhatGas Petrol Prices Gas prices are as volatile as gas. So here is an app that uses your Android ph... [More]

The Abode has come up with a native reading app for android phones. It is software that lets the Android-phone users to open PDF files as and when needed. With multi touch gestures for zooming, landscape orientation, and a tool that will resize the text on wide documents to fit the phone’s screen, it is a big hit in this short span. What is interesting is that, it works well for large... [More]