Tweet One goal of Google’s latest Android version 4.0 or “Ice Cream Sandwich” clearly was to give the users a more consistent using experience. A step to do that, was to merge the visual interfaces of Honeycomb with “pre-Honeycomb” to provide the same experience, no matter whether on tablets or handsets. However, that was only [...]
Tweet Some days ago, several popular tech-pages reported a “ground-breaking” alteration by Google according their requirements for OEMs. All began with this android-dev blogpost, called “Holo Everywhere”. It is basically an introduction for developers on how to use the Holo Theme. A big problem of developers usually is that in nearly all cases you aren’t able [...]
Tweet Good news to all those hobby-developers for the HTC Desire S: HTCdev.com just made the Desire S’ kernel-sourcecode available for the community. Furthermore, the HTC Desire’s Gingerbread-Upgrade code has been published. Happy coding! Follow @HTCDev on Twitter! Tweet
Tweet It’s widely known that HTC usually needs “some” time to upgrade their devices to the latest Android version. Gingerbread for the HTC Desire showed this to us in a very cruel way. The reason for that issue is that HTC’s custom software (mostly HTC Sense) needs much time to get adapted to the new [...]
Tweet Google just released one more useful tool for developers, called: ”Sources for Android SDK” , for the Android Source Developement Kit. Rupert Rawnsley The Android SDK Manager (which is a download manager for Android developers) just added Sources for Android SDK to the latest release. This allows you to easily step through the source code when [...]
