Tag: ANDROID2.2

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 will land in the Android Market today, bringing with it modest performance improvements for Android 2.2 and 2.3, and hardware acceleration for 3.0. Flash 10.2 is also the first version of Flash to work on the Motorola Xoom tablet. Engadget says that they "saw a slight but noticeable boost in framerate when playing a YouTube trailer at 480p" on their Droid 2, and that ...

Android fragmentation is once again being talked about (was it ever not?), only this time it's because Google has released a new compatibility pack which helps developers combat fragmentation-related issues. The new static library allows access to the Honeycomb Fragments API -- which lets developers produce resolution independent apps -- on any device running Android 1.6 or better, from ...

During Samsung's keynote at CES yesterday, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar has revealed for the first time that Hulu is actively working on bringing its Hulu Plus subscription service to Android. There was no mention of a specific release time frame, the only detail given was that the application will become available in the "coming months". An new announcement will be made when a release date is set. ...

Not even 2 weeks after the official unveiling of the Nexus S, Gingerbread's source code is now available to the public. Jean-Baptiste Quero, an engineer at Google's Android Open-Source Project (AOSP), posted the announcement early this afternoon on a Google Groups message board, making Android devs the world over a very happy group of people. Quero had warned that it would take several hours ...

The official Gmail app for Android has received its second update since it has been decoupled from the underlying operating system back in September. Today's update brings the app up to version 2.3.2, and with it comes improved support for Priority Inbox. There's now a dedicated Priority Inbox view (as seen in the screenshot to the right), which includes all the important messages in your ...

The Android Market has seemingly received a 'silent' update overnight. 'Silent' in this case means that you don't have to do any updating of your own, as its being pushed by Google from their end. The update brings a new 'Similar' tab that becomes available while you're viewing any app's information. And, as you'd expect, if you tap on this new tab it will show you a list of apps that Google's ...

The Android apps for Yahoo's two most important services -- Messenger and Mail, have received updates. Both apps now support contact sync between Yahoo Contacts and your smartphone's address book. Yahoo Messenger for Android finally has built-in support for video calls, a feature that Yahoo has announced a while back but that until now has only made its way into Yahoo's iOS apps. There are ...

Yes, that headline is no mistake! You can indeed install the latest version of Froyo, Android 2.2.1, on a jailbroken iPhone 2 or 3G, and you can do it all without a computer. Redmond Pie has put together a nice step-by-step guide to getting Android on your iPhone with Bootlace 2.1, but in short: it's as simple as installing Bootlace 2.1 from Cydia, running it, and firing up iDroid. The rest is ...

Fragmentation is one of the biggest problems, or advantages depending on how you look at it, facing Android today. With phones, tablets, and smartbooks, all running differing versions of Google's mobile OS, getting an app to run well on them all is certainly a challenge. All is not lost, however, as the latest Android Market analytics from big G show devices running Android 2.1, Eclair, ...

YouTube, like all Google apps for Android, used to be integrated into the operating system, and as a consequence, updates to it would only come when new versions of the OS were released. But Google is working to change this situation -- it started with Gmail, and now it has decoupled YouTube from the OS as well, making it a standalone app available in the Android Market. Hopefully this opens the ...

One of the most impressive features of Android 2.2 Froyo shown off at Google I/O was its 'push' functionality. If you missed the keynote, it's worth watching -- but in short: you can push things from your desktop computer to your phone. Reading some news, but have to head off to work? Just click a button and it pops up on your phone. The same goes for apps: browse the Android Market on your ...

It's a great weekend for owners of Google's Nexus One phone. Android 2.2 Froyo has started rolling out to Nexus One phones, bringing snappier performance, wifi tethering and Flash support along with it. So far, the blog buzz on Froyo is coming from bloggers with review units -- where's my review N1, Google? -- like our counterparts at Engadget. Although you might not have received an over-the-air ...

Today's Google I/O keynote focused on the Android platform. Any doubts about where Google is investing most of its developer resources have now been dispelled. The first half of the keynote was dedicated to the Android Marketplace and smartphone platform, and boy are we in for some exciting changes when Android 2.2 (Froyo) becomes available later this month. This post focuses on how version 2.2 ...

Take that, Apple! Google publicly announced today that the upcoming Android 2.2, aka Froyo, will fully support Flash. In a dig at Apple, Google's Andy Rubin told the New York Times that Android's commitment to openness means "not being militant about things consumers are actually enjoying." Rubin also knocked Apple for using private APIs that it won't let outside developers access. "We use the ...