Archive for category Android

Android WebKit Browser Performance

Posted by Simon Judge, Freelance Mobile Developer in Android, WebBrowser on April 14th, 2010

rightwareBSN are reporting that RightWare have launched a new browser benchmark. The results shown on the BSN site show that Android WebKit performs strongly compared to the iPhone and Symbian…

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Free Android Icons

Posted by Simon Judge, Freelance Mobile Developer in Android on April 9th, 2010

androidiconsLast month I posted on including Android’s built-in icons in your application. If you need extra icons you might like to take a look at androidicons.com.  There’s a free package that includes 30 PNG icons.

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The author also offers an icon design service.

Garaphical Android Market Sales

Posted by Simon Judge, Freelance Mobile Developer in Android on April 8th, 2010

androidmarket1Previously, when mentioning some problems (and solutions) with the Android Market I linked to a few ways to programatically fetch Android sales statistics.

Today, I came across a third example how to do this using Python. It provides a graph/plot of market sales from Google.

Number of Android Applications

Posted by Simon Judge, Freelance Mobile Developer in Android, Android Market on April 6th, 2010

androlibAndroLib has an interesting chart on the number of new applications added to the Android Market over time. It shows that March was a very strong month…

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However, you should look beyond the numbers. Last week, I had a long look through the applications and was surprised how many were variants of dictionaries or clocks/watches with fancy images. The number of applications with substantial functionality is far less that the headline numbers might suggest. There’s still lots of opportunity to be the first to create many kinds of Android application.

Posted by Simon Judge, Freelance Mobile Developer in Android, Android Market on March 30th, 2010

engadgetThere’s a very interesting post at engadget explaining how Google might be reducing platform fragmentation by introducing a more component-centric OS upgrade mechanism.

Also…

“Google may be nearing the end of its breakneck development pace on Android’s core and shifting attention to apps and features”

If Google are now looking for something to do, they should take a look at improving the Android Market.