Of course the application itself need to be installed on user’s Android device. The integration is rather simple and allows for the developer to invoke the editor while passing the image to be edited and get back the result of the operation when finished. It is a great initiative of Adobe to promote image editing capabilities on Android!

For the details on how to integrate your app with Adobe editor for Android refer to this developer’s oriented page.

The screen shot of the old theme:

That by itself sounds like a pretty large number but if you simply extrapolate that number over 365 days, it means that by the end of 2010 there would be more than 20 million Android mobile phones (not including tablets and net books and various other devices) shipped by the end of 2010. If in fact these numbers are valid, it means Google should see its market share rise dramatically this year. Android so far was getting the most gain in percentage among all the major mobile phone platforms already but those numbers are just going to put it far away in the lead among all the mobile platforms this year.

]]> http://www.androidz.info/2010/02/free-droid-phone-from-google-at-adl2010/feed/ 0 http://www.androidz.info/2010/02/live-wallpapers-on-android-2-1-explained/ http://www.androidz.info/2010/02/live-wallpapers-on-android-2-1-explained/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:04:52 +0000 Max Binshtok http://blog.androidz.info/?p=375 Google have posted recent blog about programming of live wallpapers for Android 2.1 which was first released on their flagship device Nexus One just recently and already got an upgraded OS to include multitouch by the way.

It has useful information in case you are interested in developing a live wallpaper for Android. Expect many live wallpapers to be on the market very soon. Although we doubt that most of them would be high quality since not many developers will try to sell them (who’s gonna buy a wallpaper even it it’s $0.99) so we expect most of the live wallpapers would be free and thus somewhat unpolished. But we’ll see about that. Post your thought about future of live wallpapers in the comments!

We issued the following emails to everyone who wrote us about the problem as an explanation:

Hi and thanks for reporting this issue.

I already saw this issue and it has been taken care of. The application should function normally now.

We had problems lately with the content sometimes being unavailable. We actually had 2 separate problems:

1. T-Mobile’s servers did not want to “talk” to our hosting provider this is when we had continuous outage of almost 2 days trying to work it out with T-Mobile and our hosting provider.

2. At certain points our servers were just getting overloaded. We gradually upgraded our server but the problem kept coming back. Tonight we were supposed to be moved to a much better servers. The time that the server is inaccessible was supposed to be a few minutes, but the people that host our servers screwed up and it wasn’t until I saw the problem and let them know that it was fixed.

We are very dissatisfied with our hosting company due to those recent problems and will be looking to move our servers somewhere else in the near future. We do not want to do anything  impulsive right now as to prevent any additional downtime but we promise we will work to prevent such issues in the future as much as possible.

We do our best to bring you the best horoscope app on the Android Market. I personally had many stressful days and sleepless nights during those past 2 weeks when we had this problem where our servers would overload. As a result of those recent problems, we have seen many negative ratings on the market. Of course it is completely users’ right to rate the application low, but many of the comments were “I love this application but it doesn’t work…” “My favorite app…” with 1 star rating. We are sad to see that trend. If you have ranked the application low due to those problem, please reconsider this. We really work hard to bring you this great content in a free application.

Luckily we seen complete opposite to that as well – people saying how much they love the application and wishing that it would be back soon with great ratings.

Anyhow, we thank you for your understanding and continuous support.

Regards,
Max.

Unfortunately application description space on the market is very limited in space so we can not use it to keep you updated and comments are not useful in particular since the are quickly pushed down for other people. We are now on twitter and you can follow us there @DHAndroid for Android or @DHBlackBerry for Blackberry updates.

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Google Nexus one phone promotion on Google homepage

I have been spotting a LOT (and I mean really a L-O-T) AdSense advertisements for Nexus one on the web in random places. What does it mean – google pushing Nexus One so hard? Is it one of the deal sides with HTC that Google will push the device really hard to promote the sales and therefore revenue for HTC? Or is it more strategic decision and Google is trying to set standard for Android phone just as iPhone had set standard for smartphones already? While it is probably a combination of many factors – it would be extremely interesting to know what are the major driving factors behind this huge promotion machinery.

Andy Miller – Vice President of Mobile Advertising have sent this email this morning:

We are thrilled to let you know that Apple has acquired Quattro. We want to share with you our excitement about this news and what it means for our customers.
We have built our business by enabling advertisers to reach the right consumers across the mobile web and in applications. We remain focused on delivering more engaging, relevant and useful ads to mobile devices, and improving the measurement and execution of digital campaigns. Together with Apple, we look forward to developing exciting new opportunities in the future that will benefit our customers.

Waltham, Mass.-based Quattro has raised close to $30 million from two main venture investors–Highland Capital Partners and Globespan Capital Partners. Founded several years ago, its clients include Ford (F), Disney (DIS) and the National Football League

You probably remember the recent Google purchase – AdMob. AdMob is considered the largest mobile advertising network. Purchase of Quattro Wireless by Apple seems to be a fire back to Google, but is it really? It is rumored that Apple was actually first to bid on AdMob, but was upper handed by Google at the eleventh hour.

This deal goes through just hours from Google announcing its new phone developed with HTC – Nexus One, which will go on sale through Google website for rumored $530 as well as subsidized by T-Mobile for $180 for 2 year personal contract (no family/prepaid or other plans…. ehh…)

Those are definitely interesting times. Mobile advertising is buzzing.

BlackBerry will have a major chunk of the corporate market for a while. The simple fact is, no one can come close to the infrastructure and this level of relationship with each individual carrier that fast. No matter how much money one has. BlackBerry is more than just a device, it is middle tier + device + push/security/IT policies etc. It might not hold up to the latest and greatest consumer devices in flashiness, but as a corporate workhorse it will stay for the foreseeable future. No other smart phone can deliver intranet access from around the globe as effectively and securely. I would bet on RIM still holding 40% of the corporate smart phone market in North America in 5 years. Most probably RIM will also have strategic partnerships in the infrastructure/middle tier areas with IBM, Oracle and SAP.

iPhone will come up with new ultra cool devices for mac-oriented people (of which we will see more). I would not dismiss Apple’s innovative edge just yet and consumers will like it a lot. At least 30% of consumer smart phone market will be firmly in Apple’s hands.

Android will target the middle ground between biz and consumers, maybe prosumers are the target. I don’t see any possibility for Androids to escape fragmenting into loosely coupled eco-systems, around large manufacturers. The capabilities and proprietary OS extensions will be so different, that many software vendors will give up on a single piece running everywhere (which will be feasible with RIM and Apple). But Android should be the most flexible one for fancy things involving clouds, LBS and social networks.

Nokia will go with maemo, but I guess it will split the market with Android by delivering more robust, but heavier devices. And Android will do with flashy lighter ones (offloading things to the cloud too). Symbian will propbably stay, but not in the smart phone market. At least not in the the high-end. All others seem to be marginalized.

Software will shift to widgets and HTML 5.0 for sure. But the process is going to be fairly slow – in 5 years it will be an achievement of the industry if half of the mobile software is widget-style.

We agree with this almost entirely and think this is a great summary of what might happen in the future. 5 years is a long time in technology and is even more so in the rapid moving mobile technology, so many surprises are possible in the future and no one, we believe can predict now what will happen close enough.