#android (25 links)
- Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation organicmaps.app
- Android Fragmentation Report July 2013 - OpenSignal opensignal.com
- Genymotion genymotion.com
<blockquote>The fastest Android emulator for app testing and presentation.</blockquote>
- Any.DO | Make Things Happen any.do
- OpenSignalMaps - Android Fragmentation Visualized opensignalmaps.com
Wah!
- Switch android x86 screen resolution - Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com
- Using the Android-x86 Port as your Emulator - AndroidDevNotes androiddevnotes.com
- Android browser's about:debug, what do those settings do? - Android - Stack Exchange android.stackexchange.com
- mobile web - Disable pinch/zoom in Android 2.1 browser on HTC devices - Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com
"I have contacted HTC about this issue and they have informed me that they don't have support for the viewport meta tag at all and there is no other way to disable zoom." Thanks, HTC!
- the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support theunderstatement.com
The Android landscape looks a bit screwed.
rmurphey: great summary of web vs native mobile apps and where @phonegap fits in http://t.co/vhaTVWu /via @touramobile
- Mobile Emulators and Simulators - The ultimate guide to mobile developers | Mobile Web Programming mobilexweb.com
Be nice if everyone could agree on a standard for doing device emulation, wouldn't it.
- QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession quirksmode.org
"The iPhone has become an obsession. If we don’t pay attention, we’ll have a mobile web that only works on the iPhone. And then we’ll have the real mobile web that wasn’t made by us and doesn’t give a shit about web standards and best practices." Overstating things somewhat but still a useful reminder.
- QuirksBlog: There is no WebKit on Mobile quirksmode.org
"All 10 mobile WebKits I’ve identified so far are subtly or wildly different." Bugger.
- PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework phonegap.com
An open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript. If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you.
- Parallel Kingdom - GPS MMORPG for your cell phone parallelkingdom.com
An online role playing game that places the virtual world on top of the real world using the GPS inside your phone. Attack, chat and interact with your friends and anyone else around you.
- YouTube - Wikitude AR Travel Guide uk.youtube.com
Search landmarks in your surroundings and view them on a map, list, and on an Augmented Reality (AR) camera view: What you see is an annotated landscape, mountain names, landmark descriptions, and interesting stories.
- Google's Android Gets Game - Forbes.com forbes.com
"The [service] attracting the most buzz is "WiFi Army," a first-person shooter game currently in beta. Like a mash-up of laser tag and the parlor game Assassin, participants meet on the street (using Google Maps) and "shoot" each other with their phone cameras."
- PC Pro: News: Google: mobile browsers are dead pcpro.co.uk
"Google claims that every phone manufacturer will offer full web browsers within a year, hailing the end of mobile-specific browsers." Aside from browsers on the billions of handsets that've been sold worldwide to date.
Screenshots from the Android SDK.
- Android Developers Blog: Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK android-developers.blogspot.com
The beta SDK that we're releasing today is the first big step on the SDK's road to compatibility with 1.0. Since this is a beta release, applications developed with it may not quite be compatible with devices running the final Android 1.0. However, the APIs are now pretty stable and we don't expect any major changes.