Android Development

Necessitas alpha 3 update 4 #android #qt

Popa Adrian Marius — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:03:26 +0000

This release brings the followings fixes: Qt Framework: - As I already said, thanks to Marijn Kruisselbrink java part is fixed ! - Fix Black screen thanks goes to Chris Browet - I fixed software keyboard forces caps on Qt Creator: - it will automatically update your java files ! - fix signing packages. SDK: [...]

Watch Ubuntu for Android in Action

Popa Adrian Marius — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:15:25 +0000

Canonical’s newly announced ‘Ubuntu for Android‘ technology has made a lot of people very excited. But words and pictures can only relay so much about how the device, which is still a prototype, works. Can you run Android apps on thedesktop? How flawless is the Ubuntu experience? How do I connect to the mobiles 3G via [...]

Android-x86 with VirtualBox support – new build available android-x86-vm-20120130 with Ethernet enabled

Popa Adrian Marius — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:39:45 +0000

Hi,You probably know the android-x86 project. With the ICS release, the VirtualBox has disappeared. So, I proposed to work on the VirtualBox support for android-x86, thanks to the work I’ve done to support VBox on AOSP. I’ve done the following work to support VirtualBox : As planned, much less work to do than AOSP support : [...]

In Oracle vs Google case : Oracle has told the court it wishes to withdraw its last claim of the ’476 patent

Popa Adrian Marius — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:29:13 +0000

Remember when the Oracle v Google case was supposed to be about billions in damages? Well – it’s down to somewhere between 60-150 millions now. And at that rate it should be zero in a few weeks. FUD, much? Read groklaw article for more. Oracle has told the court it wishes to withdraw its last claim [...]

My dual core can beat up your quad core, and other CPU mysteries

Popa Adrian Marius — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:01:36 +0000

The phone industry is hurtling towards a destiny positively brimming with sugarplum quad cores. Starting with NVIDIA Tegra 3, all and sundry are looking to a quartet of cores as the final step in the evolutionary ladder for this era of hardware. As with a great many things in this crazy market, however, the end of [...]

Judge rules that targeting Android for destruction is legally okay

Popa Adrian Marius — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:35:59 +0000

“We learned on January 31 that Barnes & Noble had suffered a major setback in a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against the company by Microsoft. That day, an administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission had tossed out the company’s key defense, that Microsoft was engaging in ‘patent misuse’ as part of a larger scheme [...]

Chrome on Galaxy Nexus matches iPhone 4S in GPU render test

Popa Adrian Marius — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:46:01 +0000

Chrome on Galaxy Nexus matches iPhone 4S in GPU render test (http://bit.ly/x2SOL1) at 60 fps. Android Browser did 9 fps. #webperf News via Guypod

TinyHAL, a generic audio HAL for Android aimed providing a better basis for system integrators to work from.

Popa Adrian Marius — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:02:16 +0000

From Mark Brown blog: Earlier today I gave a talk at Android Builders Summit about TinyHAL, a generic audio HAL for Android aimed providing a better basis for system integrators to work from. More details on TinyHAL and slides from the talk can be found over at the Wolfson Open Source web site.

Microsoft misusing the patent system with it’s Mafia tactics called “Android licensing program”

Popa Adrian Marius — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:57:17 +0000

But the most explosive section is where Barnes & Noble describes what Microsoft said to them when they approached Barnes & Noble with a demand that they pay for a patent license: “And what they basically told us was, it doesn’t matter if you have defenses, whether you don’t infringe, whether our patents are invalid, [...]

Apple Launches New Legal Attack On Samsung

Popa Adrian Marius — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:46:59 +0000

“Apple Inc has asked a federal court in California to block Samsung Electronics Co Ltd from selling its new Galaxy Nexus smartphones, alleging patent violations. In a suit filed last week in San Jose, Apple said the Galaxy Nexus infringes on patents underlying features customers expect from its products. Those include the ability to unlock [...]