Just read a tweet from @DevDroid linking to a post by TalkAndroid entitled “Adobe Flash Player 10 For Android Due In October”. I haven’t listened to the entire talk from Adobe but here’s the quote from their slideshow: Flash Player 10 for smartphone-class devices to be made available in beta at MAX conference in October […]
Getting Android Apps without the Android Market
A “smartphone” without applications isn’t a SMART phone, its just a phone. I know I’ve complained about the lack of the Android Market in South Africa. Apparently the guy at Google in South Africa who’s responsible for the Android Market has said that it’s coming soon. (I didn’t get a response to my email to […]
Overview of Open Market
Open Market is SUPER easy to use. Start the app, pick a category, view details on an app, read comments, rate it, and download the app. A few clicks and it’s all done. The screenshots below are just a quick overview of how it looks Splash Screen Store List Application Details Terms & Conditions / […]
Leaf’s Open Market – My Wishlist
I know I’m supposed to blog about my application but I’ve had some fun with the Leaf Open Market. I know it’s getting some bad press from some quarters but its not been too bad to me. They’re facing a hard battle to get some of the developers to support them, but they have a […]
How to take Android Screenshots
For those of you wondering how I made the super awesome screenshots in the previous post. It’s really easy. Apparently there’s a $3 app that does something similar, but you can do it all for free if you have Java on your machine and have downloaded the Android SDK. I got the steps to do […]
HTC Magic’s keyboard
I have the plain HTC Magic (i.e. not the “with Google” version), and have been learning how to type with it. My first complaint was that the keyboard in portrait mode, the standard QWERTY keyboard became a little small to work with. Especially if you have slightly wider fingers or not too accurate hand-eye-coordination. So […]
HTC Magic – Part 1 – Unboxing and initial impressions
I’m going to do this in a few parts: Unboxing and initial impressions My first app for the HTC Magic Any updates to the impressions after my Vodacom sim card starts working Review after a week On Friday morning I finally got the call that the phone had arrived at Vodashop Rivonia, unfortunately my HTC […]