Android. Blogger releases Android smartphone app | Wireless. The Google-owned Blogger network has released a free app designed to enable people who have built their blogs on the Blogger platform to easily update them from their Android smartphones. Unveiled this week, the program lets people bang out copy, and take photos with their phones, from directly inside the app--and then either publish their words and images straightaway or save a draft for later. Posts and drafts can be viewed directly in the app or, by way of a quickly accessible menu, in a browser. Users can also select their location and include that information with their post, switch between different accounts and blogs, and select photos from their gallery for uploading. Blogger said it's working on bringing the app to non-Android gadgets as well, but for now the program is available only for Android devices, through the Android Market, which is newly accessible directly on the Web.
First Impressions Using Android Honeycomb, Google’s iPad Rival. This morning Google held an event to showcase Android Honeycomb, the new version of the mobile OS that is focused on tablets. There wasn’t much news around the OS — we’ve seen it previewed in a few demos — but the team did show off some of Honeycomb’s slickest features, like widgets and an improved 3D rendering engine. But what about actually using the tablet OS? For all the whiz-bang previews we’ve seen, very few people have actually written about what it’s like to use these tablets. Unfortunately today’s event wasn’t the ideal place to do a full hands-on, either — there were dozens of reporters and only four tablets (most people got to play with one for maybe five minutes).
Here are some of the features and apps that stood out — be sure to check out the video below for some of these in action. The Action Bar If you’re in the tablet’s browser (which is based on Google Chrome) then this is where you’ll find your open tabs. Browser Kicks the pants off of the iPad’s browser. Gmail Performance. 37-43 Android Source Files Copied Line for Line From Java; Oracle Licks Their Lips | Android Phone Fans.
Reader - Android. Sigalon's Android Soup. A First Look at Android 3.0 Honeycomb, or Android for Tablets. The pad format suffers from lack of hardware more than lack of software. My wife has an iPad and I have a rooted Pandigital Novel running Android. The Novel is almost fast enough to get out of its own way, but at least it has given me a chance to compare interfaces, hardware, and pad apps between the two platforms. Maybe there are 200,000 apps for Android, but as of today, the hands-on quality really suffers compared to iPad. Apple has nothing to worry about for awhile. In my opinion the coolest apps use the high tech hardware.
These include orientation/acceleration features, GPS, camera, microphone or a combination of these abilities. The iPad wifi is not perfect either. Top 10 Android Apps for the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Tablets are all the rage at the CES this week, and while some feel Android is not ready for tablets yet my experience with a Samsung Galaxy Tab conflicts with that POV. I grabbed a Galaxy Tab when it first appeared on the market and it has become a powerful tool for me due to an assortment of good apps. The Android Market is growing every day as new apps appear, and it can be difficult to find the good ones.
Here is a list of the top 10 Android apps I use daily on my Galaxy Tab. We all use our gadgets uniquely so these apps may not make your list, but they work well for me. Note that these are not specific to the larger screen of the Tab, they work fine on Android phones. All of these apps are available in the Android Market on the device. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. gReader Pro. 7. 8. 9. 10. Google previews tablet-optimized Android 3.0 | Tablets | iOS Central | Macworld. Network World - Google Wednesday released a preview of the software development kit for Android 3.0, which has been designed specifically for mobile devices with larger screens, particularly tablets. The Android SDK also will support new administrative policies aimed at managing and securing enterprise tablet deployments, such as encrypted storage and password expiration.
HISTORY LESSON: The Google Android timeline The announcement came in a blog post by Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead. "We’ll be releasing a final SDK in the weeks ahead that you can use to build and publish applications for Android 3.0," Ducrohet writes. Google has been showing off the latest builds of the 3.0 release, dubbed Honeycomb, for a couple of months.
An initial screening was offered in May 2010 at the Google I/O conference. Android 3.0 will feature a new "holographic" user interface theme, with a range of new features. A lot of work has been done to support advanced and more powerful graphics.