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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby AGENT RORO » May 11th, 2011, 7:42 am

ryan99tt wrote:
AGENT RORO wrote:Anyone knows if there are any HTC agents in Trinidad?

doubt it have any in trindad...sry dude...

Just Checking, will stick to original plan then.

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Postby Swisha » May 11th, 2011, 1:19 pm

Angry Birds gets a web version, coming to Chrome Web Store

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Yet another platform has been conquered by the affronted fowl: the web! Angry Birds' web client is built in WebGL, so presumably browsers other than Google's Chrome should be able to run it as well, and even if you can't handle WebGL, there's Canvas support too. 60fps are promised on most modern PCs, and we've spotted SD and HD labels, suggesting there'll be a choice of quality to match your computer's performance. Offline gaming will also be available.

Chrome will get some exclusive content, such as "Chrome bombs" and other cutesy bits. Rovio just noted it's "really, really happy about the 5 percent," referring to Google's pricing model of charging a flat fee of 5 percent to developers on in-app purchases in the Chrome Web Store. Yes, the Mighty Eagle will be a purchasable option for the impatient among you. The game will be available in the Store immediately after Google's I/O 2011 keynote, so look out for it shortly.

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby stretch » May 11th, 2011, 3:48 pm

forgive me for asking if its a stupid question.
buying a htc desire which comes with android 2.1, is it possible o upgrade the OS?

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby zcarz » May 11th, 2011, 4:37 pm

yep, u can get up to 2.3

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby Swisha » May 11th, 2011, 4:59 pm

Google announces new ways to discover apps on Android Market, more tools for developers

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Android Market may have a lot going for it, but most would surely agree that it could use some improvement when it comes to discovering apps that you aren't specifically looking for. Thankfully, it seems Google has indeed been aware of those concerns, and it's now announced five new features that should go so some way towards improving things. Those include some newly revamped top app charts that promise to be "fresher" and country specific, a brand new Editors' Choice section that highlights apps chosen by Google, a new Top Developers feature that places a special icon next to the name of developers that make the grade (currently more than 150), improved related apps on individual app pages and, last but not least, a new trending apps section that shows the apps growing fastest in terms of daily installs. What's more, while all of those features are currently exclusive to the web-based version, Google says they're also "coming soon" to the Android Market on both phones and tablets.

In other Android Market news, Google has also announced that it will be adding support for larger apps -- up to 4GB -- in June, and it will be giving developers the ability to exclude specific devices to avoid compatibility problems, or make multiple versions of an app available under a single Market listing, complete with aggregated ratings and stats. All that, plus personalized recommendations based on your apps (details on it are still a bit light), and paid app support for an additional 99 countries (coming within the next week or so).


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Postby stretch » May 11th, 2011, 5:37 pm

thnx zcarz

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby Captainzaak » May 11th, 2011, 6:35 pm

mitch wrote:Google announces new ways to discover apps on Android Market, more tools for developers

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Android Market may have a lot going for it, but most would surely agree that it could use some improvement when it comes to discovering apps that you aren't specifically looking for. Thankfully, it seems Google has indeed been aware of those concerns, and it's now announced five new features that should go so some way towards improving things. Those include some newly revamped top app charts that promise to be "fresher" and country specific, a brand new Editors' Choice section that highlights apps chosen by Google, a new Top Developers feature that places a special icon next to the name of developers that make the grade (currently more than 150), improved related apps on individual app pages and, last but not least, a new trending apps section that shows the apps growing fastest in terms of daily installs. What's more, while all of those features are currently exclusive to the web-based version, Google says they're also "coming soon" to the Android Market on both phones and tablets.

In other Android Market news, Google has also announced that it will be adding support for larger apps -- up to 4GB -- in June, and it will be giving developers the ability to exclude specific devices to avoid compatibility problems, or make multiple versions of an app available under a single Market listing, complete with aggregated ratings and stats. All that, plus personalized recommendations based on your apps (details on it are still a bit light), and paid app support for an additional 99 countries (coming within the next week or so).


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Damn i was now coming to post this :lol:

Love the new interface, very rich.

Update:

Android @ Home Will Turn Your House Into a Giant, Automated Smartbox

Adrian Covert — Ever dreamed of turning lights on and off with your Android smartphone? Want to push music around the house like iPhone fanboys can with AirPlay? Google is bringing that to you with Android @ Home and Google Tungsten, their latest creations.

Android @ Home will consist of a series of open source libraries which developers will be able to use to create home automation apps on the Android platform. Any device plugged into an Android @ Home receiver will work with Android's automation API's. Imagine carrying your tablet or phone around the house, and if you forgot to shut off a light or appliance, you can do it remotely by tapping a button on your screen. Or, imagine your house turning into a giant, Android-powered media streamer. It's going to use an as-of-yet undefined wireless protocol (we'd guess Bluetooth-related, since it's low-power and will be "open"), which means, yep, you'll need all-new gear for it to work.

Google Tungsten combines the Android @ Home framework with the Google Music cloud, resulting in system of audio streamers in the hope that function much like Sonos or Airplay-enabled devices. In the demo at Google IO, they showed off a little glowing box connected to speakers. Using your Android device, they pushed music to the device from Google Music, and theoretically could do the same for as many connected audio zones as you need.

Standalone devices that used to do this in the past seemed too gimmicky and pieced together to have a place in our daily lives. But because Android @ Home works these ideas into a device that we use all the time, it makes the idea of a smarthome alluring. [Google IO]


There is a demo video they did at Google I/O, but am, i dunno how to embed it :oops:
You can access it here tho

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby Swisha » May 11th, 2011, 8:36 pm

mitch wrote:In other Android Market news, Google has also announced that it will be adding support for larger apps -- up to 4GB -- in June

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this is great news! hopefully we start seeing some of the better games and apps that are still only available for iOS users...

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby achillies » May 11th, 2011, 8:56 pm

mitch wrote:Angry Birds gets a web version, coming to Chrome Web Store

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Yet another platform has been conquered by the affronted fowl: the web! Angry Birds' web client is built in WebGL, so presumably browsers other than Google's Chrome should be able to run it as well, and even if you can't handle WebGL, there's Canvas support too. 60fps are promised on most modern PCs, and we've spotted SD and HD labels, suggesting there'll be a choice of quality to match your computer's performance. Offline gaming will also be available.

Chrome will get some exclusive content, such as "Chrome bombs" and other cutesy bits. Rovio just noted it's "really, really happy about the 5 percent," referring to Google's pricing model of charging a flat fee of 5 percent to developers on in-app purchases in the Chrome Web Store. Yes, the Mighty Eagle will be a purchasable option for the impatient among you. The game will be available in the Store immediately after Google's I/O 2011 keynote, so look out for it shortly.

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby Swisha » May 12th, 2011, 12:08 pm

finally we get access to the full Market!


Also the amount of countries, supporting paid apps has been increased by 99 new ones. This means that those countries will have the full access to the Android Market experience (and most of all, paid apps), without the need to employ hacks and mods. Here's the full list.

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby 2NR Smurf » May 12th, 2011, 5:04 pm

Great! Now if i could figure out why my market keeps crashing when i try to browse 'just in' apps ... :(

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Postby Swisha » May 12th, 2011, 5:17 pm

2NR Smurf wrote:Great! Now if i could figure out why my market keeps crashing when i try to browse 'just in' apps ... :(


damn jus checked on my N1 and getting the same problem :|

uninstalling updates for the Market in Application Manager then relaunching the Market fixes the issue the first time. but as soon as u exit the Market, the problem comes back after that.

a Google search shows that this has been an issue for a while, surprised it hasnt been fixed as yet...

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby 2NR Smurf » May 12th, 2011, 6:04 pm

figured it wasnt just me when i saw it happening on a friends X10 minipro

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby Captainzaak » May 12th, 2011, 6:24 pm

Happens on my Desire HD as well. Try this:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=973611

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby Swisha » May 12th, 2011, 7:28 pm

Netflix releases Android app for select HTC phones, Samsung Nexus S

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Well, it looks like the LG Revolution won't be the first Android phone to get Netflix after all. The app has just hit the Android Market and is currently available for the HTC Incredible, Nexus One, Evo 4G, and G2, plus the Samsung Nexus S. As you might expect, there's not a lot of surprises in terms of functionality -- you can resume watching where you left off on your TV or computer, and the app will allow you to manage your instant queue in addition to letting you simply browse movies. On its official blog, Netflix explains that while the app is currently limited to phones with "requisite playback support," it anticipates that many of the "technical challenges will be resolved in the coming months," and that it will will be able to "provide a Netflix application that will work on a large majority of Android phones." That's some curious wording, to be sure, and a notable change from earlier talk that suggested only certain Qualcomm processors would support the necessary DRM for Netflix. Also not supported at the moment: Canada. If none of that precludes you, however, you can hit up the Android Market link below to try it out for yourself.


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Postby zcrugby » May 12th, 2011, 7:45 pm

ok so switchin from an iphone 4 to a motorola atrix.. what should i know? lol.. the iphone 4 cudve pretty much do everything... but wanted to give android a test.. what can i look forward to?

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby outlaw101 » May 13th, 2011, 1:48 am

yea the just in apps problem happens on my mytouch 4g as well...

download paid apps from www.bestandroiddownloads.com
just loginw ith your fb account

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby stev » May 13th, 2011, 2:29 am

outlaw101 wrote:yea the just in apps problem happens on my mytouch 4g as well...

download paid apps from http://www.bestandroiddownloads.com
just loginw ith your fb account



applanet.net

servers up and workin. jus downloaded ah whole set ah crap :|

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Postby Captainzaak » May 13th, 2011, 7:56 am

stev wrote:
outlaw101 wrote:yea the just in apps problem happens on my mytouch 4g as well...

download paid apps from http://www.bestandroiddownloads.com
just loginw ith your fb account



applanet.net

servers up and workin. jus downloaded ah whole set ah crap :|



oh this one looks interesting, downloads suck on EDGE tho, sigh.
Gotta wait till i reach home to explore this one.

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Postby Swisha » May 13th, 2011, 7:39 pm

Screw MTV. YouTube 100 Makes Music Videos Relevant Again.

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YouTube 100 sheepishly materialized this week. The feature itself is minor, a space in their music section listing the 100 most popular music vids. But for the future of the music video, the implications are HUGE. In the best possible way.

YouTube 100 not only lists the Top 100 vids, but lets you play them back to back automatically. (Roku and AppleTV need to get this on their boxes). YouTube 100 returns us to an era when finding and watching music videos isn't an arbitrary, single-serve experience. It makes watching vids less about personal discovery and more about the shared experience. And it's as populist as the MTV of yore: our clicks determine what hits the top of the list. It will make music videos relevant again, which they haven't been for quite some time.

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Postby Swisha » May 13th, 2011, 11:03 pm

Awesome apps update:


LazyDroid Controls Your Android Phone from Your Web Browser

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Android: If you're sitting at your computer, there's no reason to be hunched over your phone editing contacts and sending text messages. LazyDroid puts your Android phone's functions right in your web browser, so you don't even need to pick it up.

We've featured a few ways to use your phone from your desktop, but few have been as seamless as LazyDroid. If your phone and computer are on the same Wi-Fi network, you can open up your web browser and send text messages, browse your phone's filesystem, edit contacts, view your GPS location, and even receive calls.

Just install the LazyDroid server on your phone and start it up. It'll give you an IP address from which you can access your phone. Just type that address into your web browser of choice, and you'll get a Windows-like desktop with icons for SMS, Contacts, your Filesystem, your Camera, and other stuff. Just double-click on something to access that feature on your phone, without even picking it up off your desk. If your phone rings, you'll get a notification on the LazyDroid desktop—which you can use to answer your call and then talk through your phone with a Bluetooth headset. You can even check your phone's GPS location. If you're sick of using your phone's tiny keyboard, this is the app to get for remote control. Nothing we've tried yet has worked as smoothly as this.

LazyDroid is a free download for Android devices. If you want to use it via USB instead of Wi-Fi, you can download a Windows client for that too.

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby 2NR Smurf » May 14th, 2011, 3:17 pm

Looks like they fixed the marketplace. Seeing top paid apps now and no more force closes...

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby Swisha » May 14th, 2011, 3:48 pm

hmmm still only seeing free apps and still getting force closes here

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby outlaw101 » May 14th, 2011, 5:43 pm

alot of apps on applanet not working doh guys..just a heads up but its really good concept

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Postby achillies » May 14th, 2011, 7:31 pm

outlaw101 wrote:alot of apps on applanet not working doh guys..just a heads up but its really good concept


It has been giving some issue lately, the guys that run the server are aware of it

It usually works really well though, i have been using it for several months, things might get better when they release version 3.0

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Postby 2NR Smurf » May 14th, 2011, 10:06 pm

mitch wrote:hmmm still only seeing free apps and still getting force closes here


odd. At first i thought MarketEnabler was causing the force closes, till i discovered it was so many other people suffering the same problem.
Now everything on the market place works just fine. Just bought WidgetLocker too :o 8-)

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Re: The *Official* GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

Postby Swisha » May 14th, 2011, 10:35 pm

^oh u using MarketEnabler that's y u have access to the paid apps?

the official full Market access to the 99 additional countries wont happen till June...

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Postby 2NR Smurf » May 15th, 2011, 6:41 am

mitch wrote:^oh u using MarketEnabler that's y u have access to the paid apps?

the official full Market access to the 99 additional countries wont happen till June...


No i get access to Top Paid apps without running market enabler. I was just suspecting it to be the cause of my force closes before.
My friends X10 mini pro also has access to top paid apps and they dont even have market enabler installed.

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Postby achillies » May 15th, 2011, 10:38 am

mitch wrote:^oh u using MarketEnabler that's y u have access to the paid apps?

the official full Market access to the 99 additional countries wont happen till June...


I suspected something like that, cause i still wasn't able to see all apps, i use market access, its like market enabler, but i get all the features for free

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