Finding the Android Dev Phone 1 ROM Images

For some reason the ROM Images for the Android Dev Phone 1 have the links missing from the main ADP-1 download site. When you go to http://developer.htc.com/adp.html You’re greeted with a table of ROM images and file names but the links have been removed:

(You can click on the image to see the full-size [...]

Bloo – the Facebook app for Android. Now on the Android Market

If you use and Android device like the T-Mobile G1 and you haven’t heard of Bloo yet, you will. This is probably the slickest application for Facebook on *any* platform. Excellent photo album and photo upload support, a slick user interface a small memory footprint, and it’s obviously clean, tight code judging from [...]

Android – Matching minSdkVersion to API version

In my last post I mentioned the android:minSdkVersion attribute to <uses-sdk> tag. As of SDK 1.5 the attribute values used correspond to the following API releases:

minSdkVersion
API Version

1
1.0

2
1.1

3
1.5

You can read more about all of this at http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.5.html

aTrackDog Revisited

A few weeks ago I wrote about a posting on the Android Community about aTrackDog being flawed and deceiving. I’ve since had a change of heart. Their website is very clear about how their tool works, and in answer to the “deceiving” claims they now include a Terms of Use screen upon first [...]

aTrackDog flawed and deceiving

I did some playing with this app. It’s definitely one to avoid unless you like sending your application usage data to people you don’t know for their own gains.
aTrackDog flawed and deceiving: “The new applications aTrackDog is designed to help users make sure that their applications are up to date. This application in theory [...]

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