Finally – after waiting a few weeks – I got my froyo update for my nexus one which I bought in a vodafone shop (and use it with a FONIC data flat). The installation was working without any problems and I still have all settings and applications. It is definitly faster and the wifi hotspot works fine … bye bye surfstick … bye bye umts contract … hello android!

Google finally released the sources of froyo – the new android version which comes with some nice new features … read more on http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-22-and-developers-goodies.html … I hope I will get my OTA update for Nexus One sooooon …

This is a number times 60,000 phones a day. Who would have expected to have been published as yet last year, on average “only” about 2000 Apps in the market in the month. They are about 22 million a year.  Now we are at about 9000 (March) and in April alone already 4955.
Reads more here.

In March 9000 new apps in the Android market have been published. The market success of the Android phone can not stay longer!

Here you will find some statistics for Android

Anyone who thinks an Android phone, you can not play games, should watch this video.
There are briefly shown 50 games in 9 minutes.

A list of all games and the publisher you can find here.

A few days ago, the new Android SDK was released. There are no signifieds user features added in version 2.1. Primarily benefit from this update Nexus One developer.
You can add the update with the SDK Manager.

All changes can be found in the Release Notes on the Android developer site.
Two new extensions in the API are the live wallpaper and the signal strength. The live wallpapers are already being used in the Nexus One.

I found an interesting blog post from Robert Green. He developed the game “light racer” for android which had 250k downloads after a development time of 3 weeks (this is what he says on his website). In his blog he explains how he is refactoring this game for a 3D version on android … worth reading:

http://www.rbgrn.net/content/54-getting-started-android-game-development

The game Light Racer 3D v1.2 for Android he is describing in his “online book” is looking like this:

Google announces a navigation module built on google maps. It will work on android 2.0 phones and it will be free! And of course it will work over internet – with all infos available at google (maps). See this video for more info:

Found on … http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/announcing-google-maps-navigation-for.html

Android 2.0 has arrived … hhmm as I remember the 1.6 release is not too long ago … anyway here is the official google video:

Read more on: http://developer.android.com/index.html

I just found this link … http://phonegap.com/.  ” … PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript. If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you. …”

I will check it out. If you have experience with it … leave a comment …