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  • Funf Is a Sensing and Data Processing Mobile Framework

    Funf is an open source framework for collecting and analyzing mobile data. It has been used by MIT to see how political opinions change during an election campaign, how users interact with each other, or how illnesses spread through population.

    Abel Avram
    on Jan 14, 2012

  • Mono for Android 4.0 Comes with Incremental Build and Deployment

    Mono for Android 4.0 comes with a VS plug-in, incremental build, incremental deployment, installer with all packages needed, Google Maps integration, and support for Java 7. Miguel de Icaza explains how incremental build and deployment works, and how much they help.

    Abel Avram
    on Dec 05, 2011

  • The Status of Android Porting to Other Platforms

    Android is running mostly on ARM-based hardware, but there are attempts to bring it to other platforms. One of them is the well-known x86 platform used by many PCs and laptops, the other is MIPS, used in embedded systems mostly based on Linux, and lately on Android.

    Abel Avram
    on Dec 05, 2011

  • ARM DS 5 CE Includes a Debugger and Analyzer of Android Native Code

    ARM is offering a community edition of their Development Studio 5, containing a debugger and a performance analyzer of Android native code.

    Abel Avram
    on Dec 01, 2011

  • appMobi Open Sources Its Mobile Platform During Black Friday

    appMobi wants to make mobile web applications more attractive by open sourcing several technologies: JavaScript Bridge API –a cross-platform API providing access to the hardware-, mobiUs Web App Browser –a browser that looks and behaves like a native application, and HTML5 Game Acceleration – a Canvas object that improves HTML5 speed for games.

    Abel Avram
    on Nov 23, 2011

  • Google Has Open Sourced Android 4.0

    Google has released the source code for Android Ice Cream Sandwich and a new Native Development Kit.

    Abel Avram
    on Nov 15, 2011

  • Android 4.0 Unifies Tablets and Phones with New Features

    Android 4.0 runs both on tablets and phones, having new features for UI, communication, sharing, media, connectivity, input types and enterprise.

    Abel Avram
    on Oct 20, 2011

  • Automated Testing Solutions for Android

    There are a number of automated testing frameworks or tools for Android applications, including but not limited to Activity Instrumentation, MonkeyRunner, Robotium, or Robolectric. LessPainful is providing automated tested on real devices as a service.

    Abel Avram
    on Sep 30, 2011

  • Tizen, a New Open Source Mobile OS Developed by Intel and Samsung

    Intel is dropping MeeGo and joining forces with Samsung to create Tizen, a new mobile OS based on HTML5 and emerging web technologies.

    Abel Avram
    on Sep 28, 2011

  • Sync Framework Breaks Platform Barriers

    Sync Framework Toolkit builds on the Sync Framework 2.1 and uses OData to sync with any platform or client, including Windows Phone 7, Silverlight, Windows Mobile, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android devices, and any browser using HTML5.

    Roopesh Shenoy Jenni Konrad
    on Sep 22, 2011

  • NASA using Android in Space

    On September 1st, the Official Google Blog reported that two Android-based Nexus phones have been transported to the ISS in the last manned Space Shuttle mission ST-135. Researchers want to investigate how robots can help humans experiment and live in space more efficiently with Android playing an important role.

    Michael Stal
    on Sep 09, 2011

  • Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices Now Include Android

    In addition to updates to the Windows Azure Toolkits for Windows Phone and iOS, Microsoft has introduced a new toolkit for Android, which can be used with applications developed with the Android SDK and Eclipse.

    Jenni Konrad
    on Sep 08, 2011

  • New in RAD Studio XE2: Multiplatform, Native iOS&Android, HD&3D Animation, and Cloud

    Embarcadero is preparing a new release of their RAD Studio XE2 tools which includes Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2, RADPHP XE2, and Prism XE2, at exactly one year after the initial launch of the XE line on August 30, 2010. This release has many new features, the most interesting being support for cross-platform development, Windows 64-bit, Amazon Cloud API, Native Android and iOS, and HD&3D animation.

    Abel Avram
    on Aug 26, 2011

  • What’s Next for Android?

    Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5B, getting 17,000 patents plus another 7,500 in the process of being granted, most of them related to communication. Android gets more litigation protection, but Google is now a hardware manufacturer, unsetting the balance in the Open Handset Alliance, the organization promoting Android. Will Android partners move to other OSes?

    Abel Avram
    on Aug 16, 2011

  • RIM to Offer Android Applications this Summer

    RIM is continuing to flirt with development platforms. With Silverlight forgotten and Flash not really having a market to speak of, the next big target is Java and the Android marketplace.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Aug 06, 2011
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