Tag Archives: Android

Weekend Poll: What Button Layout Do You Think Is Best?

It’s Friday.  If you’re reading this, hopefully work’s over and you can relax.  A lot of tech and mobile news has happened this week. There has been a lot to take in.  One thing we’ve been thinking about and discussing here at DroidDog is button layout.  We’re not really talking about the order the buttons are in here, but we’re talking about what… Read more

Tweet Lanes Goes Open Source, Calls For Help

Tweet Lanes was a fantastic concept on what a Holo-themed Twitter app could look like. It also offered a unique take on the reply system, where there was an omnipresent bar with a text field at the bottom and pressing a tweet would add the username to it to reply. However, due to Twitters new 100k user token limit, the developer had to let the project… Read more

Skype Video Messaging Comes To Android And iOS

Skype is advertising a new feature lately called video messaging. Unlike video calling, video messaging is recording videos (up to three minutes long) and sending them to a person. So it is to video calling what texting is to instant messaging. It’s a pretty good idea, a more personal way of talking to someone when both parties can’t sit down for a long… Read more

Google Shows Us How It’s Done With The Harlem Shake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8OiFb5O4fio Leave it to Google to do one of the best Harlem Shake videos on the internet. I’m sure they have a closet of costumes specifically for times like these, right? Google seems like the kind of company that would have a Homer Simpson mask laying around… Anyway, this is just a charming… Read more

HP May Be Working On An Android Tablet, Tegra 4 Inside

Today seems to be a big day for rumors, and the latest one is about HP. This rumor states that HP is going to release an Android tablet. This isn’t surprising, it’s actually fairly expected. HP has said many times that they need to enter the mobile space to be more successful, and Android is the logical choice. webOS is dead, no matter how you look at… Read more