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Tuesday, March 1st, is National Pancake Day. Jere is back from Montreal, Guru’s studio is rebuilt with new heavy-duty cabling for better quality…
Show Notes
- Platform News
- Global Android Activations visualized from October ’08 to January ’11
- Google has pulled Visual Voicemail from the Android Market claiming violation of the market agreement, “If you want to collect fees after the free trial expires, you must collect all fees for the full version of the Product through the Payment Processor on the Market. In this Agreement, “free” means there are no charges or fees of any kind for use of the Product. All fees received by Developers for Products distributed via the Market must be processed by the Market’s Payment Processor.“
- Android Market adds books.
- Android version of The Daily coming in Spring
- NYC to put QR codes on Building Permits
- Android 2.3.3. supports WebM
- Google removes Facebook contact sync from Gingerbread. “Google claims that the inability to migrate contact data from Facebook’s servers to Google’s creates a “false sense of data portability” and justification for their decision to remove the service.”
- 7 Reasons why you should buy an Android phone instead of an iPhone
- Apps News
- Vignette, popular camera app, is no longer able to update the version most people bought. They are offering a refund of the deprecated version if you buy the new one or you can manually download updates from their site.The mistake was due to the developers accidentally signing their packages with a test key. (Market Link)
- Nook for Android updated, tablet version coming this spring(Market Link)
- Official Twitter client updated.
- Qt for Android is in alpha, called Necessitas Suite.
- Graphic.ly comic book reader now available for Android. (Market Link)
- OpenOffice Document Reader (Market Link) – allows opening of Open/LibreOffice files. No editing support, but this may come later
- Developer’s Corner
- Final Android 3.0 Platform and updated SDK tools
- Best Practices for Honeycomb and Tablets
- “There have been reports of apps not showing up in Android Market on tablets. Usually, this is because your application manifest has something like this: <uses-feature android:name=”android.hardware.telephony” /> Many of the tablet devices aren’t phones, and thus Android Market assumes the app is not compatible”
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