If you’re a budding Android application developer, especially one who owns a Samsung Galaxy Note, you might want to direct your attention to the mega contest Samsung is running to promote development for S Pen-integrated applications. There is a whopping $205,000 smack-a-roos waiting for the winners, so we’re definitely not talking about chump change here. [...]

Looks like CM9 is getting a little bit closer to being fully out in the wild. Earlier today, the CyanogenMod team tweeted that they needed our help. The help they were looking for, were some donations so they could purchase some stable Xeon-class servers with large amounts of RAM and fast disks. I guess virtual private [...]

Remember how just a few days ago we posted about Black Ice, a heavily themed and customized ROM for the Galaxy Nexus? For those of you interested in more about the developer, read on. We got to spend some time with him and we’re glad to have been able to interview him! I understand that [...]

As a developer you are probably already active in the Android Developers Blog, Google Groups, various IRC channels and plastered across XDA, Rootzwiki and many other places. With Google not being shy or afraid of the developer community, that has easily helped you and us get moving forward with apps, games and custom ROM’s. Not [...]

CyanogenMod has just passed a huge milestone in their existance. It is no contest when considering them as the most popular Custom ROM team in the Android open source project scene, and oh boy do they have the stats to prove it. CyanogenMod is available on over sixty different devices, with the majority of ROMS installed being of [...]

As a general consumer of applications nothing is more frustrating than finding an awesome app that won’t work on my device. It happens on occasion and can not only frustrate me but the developer. If it was a free app that could have led me to purchase their pro app, it is money out of [...]

Google I/O, the namesake search giant’s annual two-day developer conference, historically held in May at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, has been scheduled to return for its fifth iteration on April 24 and 25, 2012. Last year’s event reportedly sold out in minutes after ticket sales opened, and with Android assuming honors of the top utilized handset OS [...]

or a long time there has been one consistent choice as far as custom ROM selections go, and that’s been CyanogenMOD (CM).  It’s been around since the dawn of Android and joins the list in the Android hall of fame. No matter what happens to CM, it will always be a favorite of the community [...]

Android OS fragmentation is always a major complaint. I personally feel it is due to carriers and manufacturers and not Google. Others will place the blame directly on Google. No matter who you feel is the culprit behind your device not having the latest and greatest, it is still an issue. The up and coming [...]

We’ve all heard about the amazing bounty laid down for the person who can get Android running on the HP TouchPad. It sounds like some people are getting a lot closer.  rhcp011235 and other members of the team working on the port of Android to HP’s TouchPad have now been successful in booting into Android’s recovery mode and ClockworkMOD recovery. [...]

  Ok, so I was perusing through the market looking for something exciting and interesting to let you guys know about. Then I came across a trending game called SuperNinjaCatGo by NanjaAndroid. The screen shots looked pretty decent, the ratings looked good and the graphics looked nice. The game is a simple side scroll run [...]

We saw the leaked build that was worked on an then released to the masses. It was nice to see the screen shots, but with Netflix not working, video playback still failing and no market apps available just yet, I couldn’t bring my self to update. The update was said to be rolling out to [...]

Today marked a significant milestone for me as far as community release goes. I had a new vision and started to implement parts of that new vision in the form of a new landing page.  The landing page gives a high lever overview of the state of the release system and how the uses are subscribing and [...]

We all love to customize and mod our phones and make them look like other devices, or simple tailor them to our own needs.  It’s even better when a renowned developer from the community shares the work they’ve done to their own devices so we can all experience the goodness. Eugene373 has been working on the Sony Ericsson [...]

The Android Developer Relations group at Google are holding a series of Android Developer Labs throughout 2011, problem is they have already started.  Starting today, Google’s experts are trying to teach people how to reach the full potential of their applications and take advantage of the Tablet boom. Here’s what they had to say on the developer blog: [...]