http://www.androidnotes.com Google Android News, Tutorials, and Projects Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:02:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Opera fans will be happy to hear that Opera has ported their Opera Mini browser to Android.  Opera Mini is a fantastic mobile browser, with speedy rendering, and I look forward to benchmarking as browser options are released (Firefox Mobile?). Opera has posted about their experiences in porting the browser on ... http://www.androidnotes.com/2008/04/14/opera-mini-for-google-android/ A short tutorial has been released by Pocket Journey, an Android project in development which describes itself as an “online travel community supporting micro-publishing of high quality location-aware content.”.   The tutorial itself explains how to draw transparent panels on top of Android panels, in this case, MapView.  It includes code ... http://www.androidnotes.com/2008/03/19/tutorial-transparent-panels/ A small update to the SDK was released today. The new version is m5-rc15 which includes a bug fix "1012640: Incorrect handling of BMP images.". To download, visit the SDK homepage. http://www.androidnotes.com/2008/03/04/small-sdk-update-m5-rc15/ Google released an update to the Android SDK today which includes a significant change to the user interface, as well as the ability to geo-code addresses into co-ordinates to significantly enhance mapping.  Other updates include the inclusion of more media codecs (OGG Vorbis, MIDI, XMF, iMelody, RTTL/RTX) and updated Eclipse ... http://www.androidnotes.com/2008/02/14/android-sdk-m5-rc14-released-new-ui/ New UI pics displayed at Mobile World Congress by NEC are of the new Android UI which were spoken about by Google's Dan Morrill at the Google Android Workshop in Munich, Germany at the end of January. The new UI will be included in the next SDK update. Reuters and ... http://www.androidnotes.com/2008/02/12/sightings-of-androids-new-ui/ The first real Google Android prototypes were all on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today.  ARM, Marvell, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, NEC and ST Microelectronics were all displaying various prototypes, trying to offer a glimpse of what will come when the first phones are released in late 2008. Google ... http://www.androidnotes.com/2008/02/11/android-at-mobile-world-congress-in-barcelona/ Reuters is reporting that British handheld chip manufacturer ARM will be demonstrating a prototype of a phone running Android this Monday. Many news sources have reported that they have been contacted by ARM to participate in the private demo. It is not clear whether the ARM demo will ... http://www.androidnotes.com/2008/02/08/arm-to-demo-android-the-monday/ USAToday reports that A La Mobile has released a suite of applications for Android which feature a web browser, phone dialer, mapping utility, camera, calender, contact manager, games, calculator and notes. Their plan is to pitch their prototype application suite to handset manufacturers for inclusion in the first round ... http://www.androidnotes.com/2008/01/14/first-android-mobile-suite-from-a-la-mobile/ PCMag is reporting on the first Android handheld being displayed at CES this year. The Winstron GW4 features a familiar slab style smart phone design and currently runs a version of MontaVista Linux 2.6, and Winstron claims that the GW4 will be running Android by March. Consumers may ... http://www.androidnotes.com/2008/01/09/winstron-gw4-with-android-shown-at-ces/ db4objects announced today that their db4o Database software developed for Java and .Net has been fully tested on the new Open Handset Alliance backed Google Android platform. db40 describes developers need for their software on the Android platform Although Java programmers are delighted with Android’s full object oriented platform they are frustrated ... http://www.androidnotes.com/2007/12/06/db4objects-releases-android-compatible-db4o-database-product/