Posts Tagged ‘android applications’

Android Applications – Redefining the Mobile Gaming World One App at a Time

Well, the future is here and nothing supports that fact more than the Google Android mobile phone.  With the evolution of the cell phone, we see handheld devices becoming nothing more than tiny computers with the ability to do anything from take pictures to playing games on the Internet.  Game development has become a huge factor in the life of an Android phone.

The Android software development kit (SDK) makes it easy for game developers to enhance the gaming features on an Android phone.  Since this is such an easy program to work with we see game applications blossom at an unbelievable rate.

With the support of Google and the help of Android SDK, you can personalize your mobile device however you see fit.  This innovative software comes to us from the fine people at Google and Open Handset also leaving the Android as an open source program.  One of the main reasons the Android platform is so capable of developing innovative applications is due to the Java support that exists with the Android. (more…)

Android applications you must have while traveling

Android is an operating system or an OS, that is owned by Google, a consumer favorite, and used to operate phones.  It’s every other phone service’s answer to Apple’s operating system and the ever popular iPhone.  Google has an agreement with Verizon to enable new Verizon phones to run on this network but Verizon is not the only phone company to use this operating system.  Sprint also uses Android in conjunction with its Now Network and T-moblie as well as AT&T have phones out that are using this system, too.  Kyocera is coming out with a phone on the Adroid operating system next year.

As with many other operating systems, whether on phones or on computers, one of the must-haves for the system is the ability to play games.  Since Android is the answer to the iPhone, the ability to use applications, or apps, is very important. Apps can be anything from something very useful in a person’s every day life – like the ability to turn the phone into a giant alarm clock to something that is played with just for fun – like the Android application Mahjong Solitare, which is in 3-D and is a calming puzzle game that is a classic computer game.  Due to the great difference in types; there is a very large selection of applications.  Listed below are some of the best according to users of the Android operating system. (more…)

Google Announces Apps For Android

Google have recently launched an open source collection of sample Android Applications under the name ‘Apps For Android’.

The aim for Apps For Android is to share some sample applications that will help to demonstrate the different aspects and possibilities of the Android platform.

The first available application included is called Wikinotes, “a wiki note pad that uses intents to navigate to wiki words and other rich content stored in the notes.”

WikiNotes for Android was written to demonstrate a number of core concepts in Android, including:

* Multiple Activities in an Application (View, Edit, Search, etc.)
* Default intent filters for View/Edit/Search based on MIME types
* Life cycle of Activities
* Message passing via Bundles in Intents
* Use of Linkify to add Intent-firing links to text data
* Using Intents within an application
* Using Intents to use an Activity within another application
* Writing a custom ContentProvider that implements search by note title
* Registration of ReST-like URIs to match titles, and do contents searches
* SQLite implementations for insert, retrieve, update, delete and search
* UI layout and creation for multiple activities
* Menus and keyboard shortcuts

Source: TalkAndroid.com

Android Application

Artificial Life, a mobile entertainment and game company announced that they will be making Games and Applications for Android. The company looks pretty interesting so hopefully some cool applications will come out of this.

You can check their site out here:
artificial-life.com

Google Announce AndroidGlobalTime

Over on the official Android blog, Google have announced a new open source application that will be part of their apps-for-android project.

AndroidGlobalTime, developed by a Google engineer is a simple 3D world clock. The application serves as a solid illustrative example of how to properly use the OpenGL API’s in Android apps.

Apps for Android is basically a sample collection of open source applications, that will allow them to demonstrate the many aspects and possibilities of the Android platform.

The first of these apps to be announced was Wikinotes.