Android Scene

Personal Assistant Premium

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:19:30 +0000

Personal Assistant Premium. 10 essential life management applications in one great app: Credit card Control, Bank account status, Investment portfolio, Cell Minute Tracker, Frequent flyer miles, Travel Itineraries, Shopping Management, Bill management, Netflix queue, Alerts. Price: Free, $9.99 $7.00 Android App Review: Pros & Cons: Pros Manage many of your personal accounts from within the app and online Receive notifications about activity Monitor [...]

Word Mix

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:14:34 +0000

The object of Word Mix is to correctly guess the 6 letter word to move on to the next level. Similar to Word Warp and Text Twist. Hints are available, but use it sparingly! For more fun try to guess ALL the words in the untimed puzzle game. Click words for definitions. Features: 5000+ levels, [...]

Android Gaming and the Importance of Multi-Touch

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:44:20 +0000

Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google for Android, recently commented on Multi-touch for Android devices at CES 2010. “It’s not an America versus outside America kind of thing. It’s a decision that is a result of the OEM model. I personally don’t like two-handed operations… there is no conspiracy.” Don’t be naive and forget how significant [...]

How to set location on emulator

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:37:14 +0000

You have two options if you would like to set the location on the emulator. For both options, you start with starting the emulator first. Option 1: using DDMS go to your android/tools directory, and launch the DDMS tool select the Emulator Control Tab fill the Location Controls fields with the longitude and latitude values press the Send button Option 2: [...]

Hack: Howto get root on your G1

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:35:08 +0000

Many people were surprised that root was disabled on the production T-mobile G1’s, and everyone knew that we would eventually get root access, but who knew it’d be this easy?!? Some users at XDA-Developers and android-dls.com have discovered a simple hack to enable root access. Here are the steps you can take: 1. Download and install a [...]