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Android Design Preview mirrors parts of your desktop display
Google has a new toy for the development community called Android Design Preview. Design Preview is a tool is software that allows devs and designers to mirror part of their screen onto a USB connected device. The iOS community has had similar apps for some time. The application requires Android SDK to run. If you don't know what that is, chances are this won't... Read more » Chrome’s in-web-app payment system to feature localization, many countries
Google's API for in-app payments (see google.com/payments) offers developers a simple method for integrating a payment system in their web apps, via Google Payments. And the feature, which was announced in May, only costs the developer 5% of each purchase. Not a bad deal at all. And the latest news takes the system global. Not only will developers be able to... Read more » OSCON will feature a host of Googlers at the end of July
If you're in or around Portland, or will be from July 25th to 29th, and you're interested in open source software, the Oregon Convention Center will be the place to be. O'Reilly's 2011 OSCON (Open Source Convention) will be taking place there, and will be hosting a variety of workshops, keynotes, tutorials, and other geeky events. According to the Google Open... Read more » More information on Google Fishtank
Images via Geek At Google I/O 2011, The Big G requested ideas for the next generation of Google TV from developers. Outside of the title, "Fishtank," which covers the title of the development program and functions as at least a preliminary moniker for the product itself, little information was given. Though, we do know that the system will run Honeycomb. Now,... Read more » Google 20 percent results in Android robot control via the cloud
How cool is it that Google offers employees the opportunity to spend 20% of their office time on the projects that inspire them most? It's uber-cool, that's how cool. And one of the projects Googler's have put together with their 20% is the Robot Hackathon. Through the month of October, efforts were focused on educational and hobby robot kits for the purpose of... Read more » Ericsson releases Web Device Connectivity API, sure to rock Android
Ericsson Labs, as in Sony Ericsson, an OEM fully committed to Android for the near future, has created a Web Device Connectivity API that brings your mobile and home entertainment gadgets one step closer to one another. Pairing is done, at least in this video example, with a widget that displays your connected devices. Selecting your television from YouTube on your... Read more » AIR makes creating (simple) Android apps a snap
Of course the release of Adobe's AIR runtime in the Android Market means that we all have a lot of great games and other apps headed our way, but the other side of the coin is that it just got a lot easier to create native Android apps. Want to upload your very own app to the Android Market but can't be bothered with all that confusing code? Watch this video over... Read more » Google’s response to hacking of their app protection
Google announced their new app licensing system on July 27th. Less than a month later, on August 23rd, the system had been hacked and instructions on circumventing the security were posted online. As attention-grabbing as the announcement was, "Check it out: Google's new DRM easily hacked!!!" Tim Bray reminds us - via the Android Developers Blog - that the... Read more » Google’s Licensing system defeated?
Since Google's announcement of a new app protection system last month, I've heard numerous complaints about the general approach of the protection: it requires a data connection, which isn't always available for everyone. And while "Justin Case" of Android Police thinks Google's LVL is the best copy protection for Android apps to date, he has found flaws - serious... Read more » New app licensing from Google
In response to developers' complaints of unauthorized usage of their wares, Google has set up a licensing service, by which - via a set of libraries - an application can hit Google's server, which stores sales records. Every time an app with this protection is launched, it checks with Google to be sure the copy is legit. The new system will replace the old copy... Read more » 
