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]

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]

One of the major reasons why Java became so popular is the vast amount of existing code such as libraries, examples and open source applications, that is available to Java developers. When you develop in Java, chances are most of the "chore" code that your application needs has already been written, and good chances are that the code that you need is open source and has a flexible license. Thus, a... [More]