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Apr

[Book Giveaway] Win One Of Ten Copies Of Introduction To Android App Development For The Kindle Fire

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Development, Kindle Fire

By all accounts, the Amazon Kindle Fire is the best-selling Android tablet of all time.Between Amazon's quality-not-quantity approach to their App Store and one-tablet-to-rule-them-all line-up, and you've got a recipe for quality control more akin to Apple than Google. But that also means developing for the Fire and the App Store is a slightly different experience from start to finish - so if you're planning an app specifically for the Fire... well, you're in luck.

Introduction to Android App Development for the Kindle Fire

Written by Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder, the mini-eBook spans 104 pages and costs $15.99.

Get Started Fast with Android App Development for Amazon’s Best-Selling Kindle Fire!

Nov

Tim Bray Reveals Android Market Now Has Support For Developer "Draft Uploads," Recaps Previous Improvements

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Android OS, Apps/Games, Development, News

Last night on the Android Developers blog, Tim Bray recapped a few improvements that have come to the Android Market since Froyo landed. Most of them (five out of the six) are old news by now, but the sixth is one we haven't heard about before:

Sixth, Market now has a “draft upload” feature; this removes a lot of the tension and strain from the app-update process. Get your screenshots and feature graphics and text and APK all squared away with as much editing as you need to, then update them all with one click.

Hardly a major improvement, but it illustrates the fact that they're still working on the market - particularly from the developers' side of things.

Nov

Google Adds Change Log Field To Android Marketplace App Pages

Posted by Brian O'Toole in Applications, Apps/Games, News

Good news, developers: Google is finally giving you the opportunity to formally submit a description of changes to your app in its latest version. Many devs were doing this in the description field already, but were constrained by the character limit in place. This new option frees up some space in the description for ... well, further description, and is sure to please some application developers out there. No sign of the ability to respond to user comments, though, sorry.

Source: Android Market Help via DroidReign

Aug

Rockbox For Android Now Semi-Functional

Posted by Brian O'Toole in Applications, News

Last Updated: August 1st, 2012

The popular, open-source media player firmware Rockbox has recently been made available for Android. Rather than run as an operating system, Rockbox operates as a standalone application that you can install as usual with an APK. Development is still on-going, but Rockbox dev kugel has a few pre-compiled APKs hosted for you to try out if you’re interested.

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These builds are unofficial and are purely for demonstrative purposes, but they seem to work pretty nicely. Currently the navigation/control interaction method is touchscreen only, and screen rotation is not supported - Rockbox will only run in Portrait orientation.

Jun

Developers: Pre-Order Unity3D Pro Game Engine For Android – Get A Free Nexus One

Posted by Andrew Huff in Apps/Games, Development, Games, News

Unity3D recently announced that pre-sales are going on for their Android version of their great 3D engine. Game developers who are still on the border as to whether or not they want to make the jump to Android or, if you already are developing for Android making the jump to Unity 3D, have a little more incentive now. Unity3D will give the first 500 Unity Pro for Android pre-sale orders a free Nexus One.

Free Nexus One

Yes you heard that correctly. The first 500 pre-sale orders for Unity Pro for Android will receive a free Nexus One phone.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – June 24, 2010 – Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for highly interactive 3D content on the web, iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, Android™, Wii™, Xbox 360 and PlayStation®3, today announced that Unity Pro for Android is available for pre-order now at https://store.unity3d.com/shop/.