Tag: FROYO

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 ...

Facebook just pushed out a much-needed update to its mobile users with version 1.5 of its Android app. This particular update's an important one because it adds two major pieces that were formerly missing: Chat and push notifications. Unfortunately, the push notifications only work on devices running Froyo or newer, and for everyone else there is still a painful lack of notifications for ...

Yesterday, Google released an updated version of the Android YouTube app, a major update that continues the unbundling of the app from the Android OS. YouTube 2.1 has been re-written from the ground up to mirror the desktop experience more closely. New to the Android platform is in-page playback, allowing you to read the video description, scope out related videos, or rate videos without having to ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the ramifications for end-users out of the way, I can now focus on the interesting bits -- the technology behind Froyo (Android 2.2) that makes it so damn exciting. First, the underlying operating system (or virtual machine) now features a just-in-time (JIT) compiler. Claims of 2- to 5-times faster performance over Android 2.1 were touted but the actual demonstration showed a gain of about ...

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 ...

More news coming out of Google I/O suggests that the Google/Apple rivalry is about to get even hotter, with Google entering the music arena. The big announcement today was Android 2.2, aka Froyo, but it might have slipped by you that Google is also adding music to the Android store. Google has also purchased music-syncing service Simplify Media, which syncs your media across multiple devices and ...

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 ...