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The Google Android development team announced that development of Android 2.0, codenamed Eclair, is far in development than first thought. In fact it will be released in November making its debut on Motorola’s Droid handset. Not long ago Google pushed out the Android 1.6 aka Donut to handsets offering various improvements to performance along with some nice additional features such as a more visual indicator of processes using your battery, a power widget enabling you to toggle WiFi, GPS,... Read→
Something went rather wrong not long ago to iLuvAndroid where the bandwidth limit was breeched and thus the site was down for a good number of days. Thus far the issue has been resolved and hopefully won’t appear again so again I apologise for the downtime and look to get this place bang up to date! The world of Android has been moving at a rapid pace with news of Android 2.0 aka Eclair making its debut in November with Motorola’s Droid handset. Keep an eye here as I fill you in and... Read→
With Opera Mini making strides in the Mobile Browser Market, people have been asking why there hasn’t been a Mozilla FireFox version available just yet for the dynamic Android platform. However recent news has filtered in as to why exactly development hasn’t been smooth sailing. “Until recently, Android was Java, but they released Android NDK which uses C/C++ and that is what we program in, so we are now looking at developing Firefox for Android,” said Jay Sullivan, vice president... Read→
We have two new guides added to iLuvAndroid.com! A new guide called How To use the Recovery Image, which details the fantastically powerful Recovery Image which has a multitude of options available to you, such as creating a Nandroid Backup, Nandroid Restore, a script to repair your EXT Partition, fix permissions and to manually select which file you want to flash! Perfect if you want to try out different themes. The second guide, How to install Cyanogen’s Legal ROM (4.1.99/4.1.999) helps... Read→
If you are one of the many that enjoy installing and using the variety of applications available on the Android Market, then you would have noticed that managing such a large number of them at a time can be quite slow and cumbersome using the default methods. AppManager Full is designed to make installing, backing up and un-installing applications at a glance a breeze. Interface & Userability App Manager is a joy to use with a very clean and clear interface. All of your applications are listed... Read→
Quite some time ago, the European Union decided that they wanted a more accurate GPS system and one that didn’t rely on US only satellites. After much discussion the Galileo project was born which would consist of European satellites orbiting the world and providing a much more accurate form of GPS of within a few feet. Last week a precursor to the Galileo project was successfully launched, called EGNOS (The European Geostationary Navigation Overly Service). It consists of three satellites,... Read→
The Samsung Behold II has changed for its second iteration by now joining the Android ranks. In the USA, the Behold II will be available on T-Mobile and features a 3.2″ AMOLED touchscreen, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and video recording capabilities, LED Flash, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 and a microSD slot with support of up to 16GB. Samsung have been pushing their custom interface called TouchWiz, and the Behold will be no different with it being adapted on Android. The TouchWiz interface... Read→
Today Adobe has officially confirmed that Flash will be supported for mobile devices in early 2010. As part of the Open Screen Project, Adobe is set to bring the rich media format to mobile devices to address the issue of Flash on multiple devices along with support for hardware acceleration. This is exciting news as native flash support for mobile devices has been limited due to the closed source nature that Adobe has implemented. However Adobe has noticed the trend in mobile use and thus the... Read→
There has been a bit of drama happening over the last few days over at the XDA forum and from Google themselves. Cyanogen has revealed that he was issued a “Ceast and Desist” letter from Google about his immensely popular CyanogenMOD for Android mobile phones. As most people perceive that the Android platform itself is Open Source, not everything is cut and dry. For example, while Google is happy to create APIs (Application Programming Interface) so that other applications can talk... Read→
The Guardian is one of the UK’s premier newspapers when it comes to covering all aspects of the news. Developer James Hugman and Future Platforms have teamed up together to help bring such content to the Android masses and has released an application called “Guardian Anywhere”. The concept is simple, to deliver you all of the Guardian’s content to you on your handset, whenever you want, where ever you are. What differs though from other applications is that instead of needing... Read→
