Category: Android Apps

Twitter's Official App For Android Is Out

Twitter’s Official App For Android Is Out

Android may currently may not be at-par with iPhone Apps but, it is surely covering ground. There has been many Twitter Apps around but have not delivered much when it came to a feature-packed App.
Twitter itself has made it easy with itself officials interacting with the officials at Google and finally, coming up with Twitter’s [...]

Fennec for Android 2.0+ Goes Live - Public

Fennec for Android 2.0+ Goes Live – Public

Looks like the long waited Firefox Mobile browser Fennec has finally landed.The guys (Michael Wu, Brad Lassey, Alex Pakhotin ) from Vladimir Vukicevic have officially released Fennec to the public but it’s “pre-alpha” stage. This means there are still some bugs with this build and they want us to give them a feedback.
We should [...]

WARNING!

WARNING!

First let me start this post of by saying I am 100% behind Android and hope it succeeds. With that out of the way, let’s begin. Android won’t succeed if it keeps going down the same route that it is going. Why? Its becoming a flooded market. It seems like [...]

How to get your Flash 10.1 public beta invite for Android

How to get your Flash 10.1 public beta invite for Android

Shantanu Narayen (President & CEO) of Adobe confirmed today that Google will be brining Flash 10.1 in the second half of 2010, So that’s good news for all Android users right? Now the question is if the G1, MyTouch and other earlier Android devices are going to get flash too. Rumors are stating that the [...]

Twitter Will Launch It's Official Android App

Twitter Will Launch It’s Official Android App

Today at Twitter’s Chirp conference, Evan Williams, Twitter’s CEO made the announcement that Twitter will also have it’s own official twitter App for Android at the company’s first ever developer conference called Chirp. Would Tweetie developers be involved in its development we don’t know yet. But they better come up with some good by [...]

Missing Sync Brings Wireless Sync To Our Android Devices

Missing Sync Brings Wireless Sync To Our Android Devices

Missing Sync comes with an update to its implementation of synchronization between the PC and Android devices, It’s now possible to synchronize via wireless, without having to be constantly connecting the USB cable to the phone. Which we thing is a great feature.
Let us explain to you a little bit about “Missing Sync”. Missing Sync [...]

Famous XDA Forums Hits The Android Market YAY!

Famous XDA Forums Hits The Android Market YAY!

The very good site XDA-Developers known for its prowess for fiddling with our dear smartphones (Android and Windows Mobile) has just released their official App on the Android Market. This application will allow you to view the forum, read messages, open new topics, check MP and even subscribe to your favorite son of discussion.

Are you [...]

LogMeIn for Android Might drop as beta soon!

LogMeIn for Android Might drop as beta soon!

LogMeIn is a software that allows you to control Windows and Mac computers remotelyor from any device that has a web browser. The company also offers a specific client for the iPhone and now Android is also working on an application similar in graphics and treated .
LogMeIn Ignition for Android is still in beta [...]

Android fragmentation to be solved on the next Android-OS update

Android fragmentation to be solved on the next Android-OS update

Google continues to gobble up large chunks of smartphone market share, but offering four different versions of the same operating system will eventually stunt that growth by derailing customer purchase plans. After all, why buy a new device with an earlier version of Android — say, version 1.6 — if the better hardware and software [...]

Skype Mobile For Verizon On Android Goes Live

Skype Mobile For Verizon On Android Goes Live

Skype mobile for Verizon BlackBerrys and Android devices has officially gone live today, bringing free calling globally between Verizon smartphone users and other Skype users everywhere. Verizon customers will be able to make voice calls over the companies EVDO 3G network at no cost to other Skype clients, while also making SkypeOut calls on an [...]

New Android Keyboard "ThickButtons" In The Market

New Android Keyboard “ThickButtons” In The Market

We all know that the stock Android keyboard on small screens like the G1 & The MyTouch won’t do it. The screens are small and the buttons are even smaller, So it’s a little bit harder to use the on-screen keyboard. Well, now there is new Android keyboard called “ThickButtons” it basically makes the letter [...]

Tim Bray Says No to the "iPhone Disney-fied walled garden"

Tim Bray Says No to the “iPhone Disney-fied walled garden”

Tim Bray, XML co-creator said on Monday that he has now joined Google to work on Android as a Developer Advocate. With his new position, he brings some verbal also as Tim said that “It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure [...]

3 UK to Offer 6 New Android Phones In the Next 3 Months

3 UK to Offer 6 New Android Phones In the Next 3 Months

Look out for at least 6 new Android devices from the UK network 3. Currently selling only 1 Android unit which is the HTC Hero. David Kerrigan, chief of internet services said they will be heavily focusing on Android this year and will work in conjunction with Samsung and Sony Ericsson to name only two.
What [...]

Opera Mini 5 Beta 2 Hits The Streets Of Android

Opera Mini 5 Beta 2 Hits The Streets Of Android

Good news fellas Opera has just released their Opera Mini 5 Beta 2 in the Android Market and it should be compatible with Android 1.6+. This new version is blazing fast compare to Version 4 and other older releases. So how are we getting faster loads and stuff like that? We’ll Opera uses their servers [...]

TAT Home not Coming to the Android Market as We Had Hoped

TAT Home not Coming to the Android Market as We Had Hoped

The video shown below caused a little stir in the Android world when it comes to home screen replacements. Now I don’t like to bring bad news, however the guys over at IntoMobile posted that’s it not likely to happen anytime soon. The developers named “TAT Home” (The Astonishing Tribe) have tweeted that it will [...]

Android Runs Wild In Free Application Land

Android Runs Wild In Free Application Land

Another great Distimo report recently released at MWC10 shows us that our beloved OS Android has the highest percentage of FREE applications available. Is this down to the OS being free also? or is this just the good developers that we have working on Android to bring us their latest goodies? I guess it could [...]

Sky News App Now Available In the Android Market

Sky News App Now Available In the Android Market

B SkyB Ltd released an Android app for us all to get our news blips from, the only problem is, I cannot seem to find it in the Android market and I think it’s down to me being stuck on Android 1.5. Anyway the application itself allows you to keep track of breaking news, headline [...]

Google Earth For Android 2.1 Now Available

Google Earth For Android 2.1 Now Available

Google Earth is now available on Android Market, But wait! Google Earth is currently only available to users who are using Android OS 2.1. Yup you heard that right! 1.5 & 1.6 won’t be able see it on the Android Market. Not sure if rooted users running 2.1 are able to download the app. But [...]

Firefox Fennec Browser For Android Spotted Running On A Nexus One

Firefox Fennec Browser For Android Spotted Running On A Nexus One

Fennec Browser for Android was spotted running on a Nexus One over at the Bercelona Mobile World Congress we and today we got a shot for you. As you can see in the picture above the Nexus One is running a Pre-release of the Fennec Browser on Android OS 2.1. This comes right after Firefox [...]

Quick Preview Of SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 For Android - Video

Quick Preview Of SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 For Android – Video

The folks over at AndroidCentral.com got their hands on SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 running on a Nexus One (Not really a hands on more, but more like a demo). SPB Shell basically replaces your phone’s default user interface with a customizable “shell.” What’s new in version 5.0 is is that they added support for Android [...]

Phonescoop Gets Its Very Own Nexus One With Adobe Flash 10.1

Phonescoop Gets Its Very Own Nexus One With Adobe Flash 10.1

The folks over at PhoneScoop got their hands on a Nexus One with what looks to be a fully working Adobe Flash on a Nexus One. Here at leakdroid we have been keeping an eye on Flash lite ever since that video uploaded to youtube of a Nexus One running Flash lite 3.1. The [...]

Verizon Wireless Gives Skype VOIP Kisses Over It's 3G Network

Verizon Wireless Gives Skype VOIP Kisses Over It’s 3G Network

Remember back then when Verizon Wireless didn’t even let you download your own Ringtones, Wallpapers and stuff like for free by a Third-party? Pretty much you had to download their content from the “GET IT” application which it wasn’t free you had to pay $99 cents for every download, But then all that changed when [...]

Home Sweet Tat Home.  A Fresh New Home Replacement.

Home Sweet Tat Home. A Fresh New Home Replacement.

This is going to be awesome. I am a huge home replacement fan and being a new Nexus One owner I am not going to root the N1 right now. I stumbled across this new home replacement coming soon to Android phones and I couldn’t be more excited.
Tat Home is [...]

'Buzzoid', the first Google Buzz Android app from the Netherlands

‘Buzzoid’, the first Google Buzz Android app from the Netherlands

I have been wondering when the first Google Buzz Android app would appear, and I admit I thought it would be from Google themselves, but it seems they have their hands full right now shoring up privacy practices with Buzz. So then I thought, “who will bring us a Android app to get us Buzzing [...]

Nexus One Rocking Flash Lite Round 2 - Video

Nexus One Rocking Flash Lite Round 2 – Video

Another video of the Nexus One Running Flash Lite has been released into the wild. This time we know it’s running Flash Lite 3.1 for sure. How do we know that? We’ll, I was able to get in touch with the guy who uploaded the video to youtube and I got some information from him. [...]

Google Maps 4.0 Brings Buzz Support

Google Maps 4.0 Brings Buzz Support

Google Maps 4.0 has been released in the Android Market which brings Buzz support and other goodies. Google Maps 4.0 with Buzz is available on any Android handset running Android 1.6 and higher. So start buzzing around your city, but be careful every buzz has your GPS location and I’m sure you want don’t strangers [...]

Nexus One Rocking Flash Lite - updated

Nexus One Rocking Flash Lite – updated

Nexus One owners get ready cause Flashlite might be near you. Apparently someone was able to port Flashlite to it’s Nexus One. I’m guessing this is a Rooted user who pushed old Flashlite files found in the Hero Leaks, but that’s just my guess.
Here is the video of the Nexus One using Flashlite on Youtube

We’ll [...]

Motorola Droid Gets Pinch-to-Zoom (Maps)

Motorola Droid Gets Pinch-to-Zoom (Maps)

Jealous of the Nexus One Pinch-to-Zoom feature on the Google Maps? Well today is your lucky day Google has updated it’s Google Maps and it brings Pinch-to-Zoom to all Motorola Droid owners. If you haven’t got the app update notification head over to market and find your Maps app, It should have an update ready [...]

Wordpress for Android goes live

Wordpress for Android goes live

Wordpress for Android is now official. Android users who have a blog either with wordpress.com or self host wordpress can now use this helpful little app on the go. The Wordpress application is available in the Android Market for free wooohoooo.

The features found in this application are:
Configure and manage multiple blogs
Comment moderation including the [...]

Firefox Available for Android in Febuary?

Firefox Available for Android in Febuary?

The middle of last year brought news that Firefox was working on a browser application for Android, half a year later that news surface’s again with a proposed release date of Febuary. Tipped to give us their first Beta release, which is music to my ears. I know there are quite a few Android enthusiast’s [...]

Seesmic Gets Review

Seesmic Gets Review

Throw a stone at the Android market and you can’t miss a twitter application. The popularity of the Social Networking/micro-blog site Twitter has brought about several Twitter applications for users of Android. Over the past few months I’ve been hearing all sorts of grumbles about the most popular Twitter client application. Many of you have [...]

Europe See's Higher Price for Android App's Than in the US

Europe See’s Higher Price for Android App’s Than in the US

So we are getting conned here in the UK, nothing unusal there as thats why it’s called Rip-Off Britain. Analytics firm Distimo have just released their December report on Android applications and this time they focus on location and price’s. It’ seems if your in Europe though, then your getting conned even further with application [...]