If you’ve heard some unpleasant rumors about Google controlling device manufacturers and making Android less open, don’t swallow them just yet. Google’s Andy Rubin told the company’s side of things yesterday, referring to the other tales as FUD. Rubin wrote in a post on the Android Developers Blog, “As always, device makers are free to
Novell announced today the availability of Mono for Android, a tool for developing Microsoft .NET apps for the Android platform using Microsoft Visual Studio. Novell is enabling Microsoft .NET and C# developers using Visual Studio and other environments to use a common code base to create applications for mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets,
PapayaMobile has announced that Android’s In -App billing is now available on its social gaming network. PapayaMobile will also integrate Android’s In-App billing into its Social SDK and Game Engine products, offering Android developers access to monetization tools. Papaya says the key reason why developers are currently finding iPhone to be a better monetization platform
Android developers, let’s hear a cheer. Late yesterday, Google announced the launch of in-app billing on the Android Market, meaning users can make purchases from within apps from now on. If you’re not familiar with the concept, in-app billing has a lot of promise. For users, it means less hassle in terms of having to
It’s often the case that, when Google offers something, all competing products can be dismissed. A product or service that has Google’s backing has the support of lots of geniuses and tons of cash, after all. But Urban Airship has announced something called Embedded Push for Android, and it’s worth investigating. An official statement on
Kyocera is calling all Android developers who would like to think outside the box. Today, the company announced a new Android Developer Program designed to get people making apps for its dual-touchscreen smartphone, the Kyocera Echo. As you might expect, this move coincided with the release of a software development kit, along with a dev
The availability of feedback is important in many areas of life. Consider how it might be unnerving to drive a car without any gauges, for example, or how your 401(k) would do if you weren’t able to perform research. So developers should be pleased to hear about the addition of Application Statistics to the Android
Mobile social gaming platform Scoreloop is launching “Go Android,” a partnership program designed to help iOS developers bring their games to Android. This new initiative from Scoreloop offers eligible developers the ability to reach a new audience without the time and resourcing hassle that comes along with porting. “We’re providing real value for developers, not
Many people would agree that iOS developers who have ignored Android so far have missed a big opportunity. The upside, however, is that they remain eligible to benefit from a new $100 million fund (called Fund9) established by OpenFeint and The9. OpenFeint and The9 want top developers to port their games to Android, and the
Black Duck Software has introduced Android Fast Start, a bundled software service aimed at helping Android developers automate and simplify the managing of Android projects. Android is a complex open source project made up of more than 165 components, 80,000 files, and 2 GB of code under 19 different licenses. The code base evolves rapidly,
