So it looks like our Samsung phones may actually get much better now!!!
http://www.telecoms.com/31956/samsung-hires-android-hacker-cyanogen
Samsung hires Android hacker ‘Cyanogen’
While some device vendors are stockpiling patents, others are hunting down talent, as competition in the mobile handset space heats up. It was revealed this week that Samsung Mobile has hired one of the homebrew market’s most notorious and successful Android hackers, Steve ‘Cyanogen’ Kondik.
Kondik is best known as the creator of the CyanogenMod for Android, an after market customized firmware bringing new features and functionality to the Android platform.
There’s no information yet on whether Samsung is interested in CyanogenMod, or more in Kondik himself, but the programmer and hacker has said the move will allow him to use his talents in “the real world,” while development of CyanogenMod continues as usual.
The Cyanogen firmware caters to more than 40 different Android devices and brings such functionality as native theming, Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), an OpenVPN client, USB tethering, and claims increased performance and reliability over official firmware releases. Kondik has on occasion received input from Google on the development of the platform and as of mid-July it had been downloaded and installed on more than half a million devices.
we already been over this..
sammy n cm7 goes hand in hand
Android hacker? Lolz. He's a developer........
Thread closed......
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Ok. So my company purchased two 7" Android tablets pre-production from China. They turned out to actually not be "real" android as it seems to be running a skinned down Android on top of Windows CE. We are looking to place Android tablets in retail locations for a pilot test. I'm looking for a developer that would be able to do one or both of the following:
1) Put REAL Android on here. It doesn't matter whether it is 1.5, 1.6, etc. but we don't want Windows running in the background for the obvious reasons.
2) Develop a VERY simple (but pretty) application for a registration process that would guide the user through entering the values for the questions we are asking. The trick to this app is we also need a way to completely lock the device down so that the user can only use that app. Maybe a hidden button in a corner that would prompt for a password so that we could get out of the app.
We would gladly send one of these tablets and let the dev keep them for their time and we would also be willing to discuss pay based on time invested. Please PM if interested. Pics of the units below:
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Anyone interested?
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Porting Android to this device is probably an insanely time consuming and difficult project. Just look at the Android porting projects for various Non-android HTC Devices such as the Touch Pro/Diamond. Takes for ages as drivers needs to be written, etc...
I think you would be better of thrashing those fake tablets and maybe do some proper research next time you buy something from China..
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Google's Android Market now has a web client. Finally! And guess what else, it's already live. Hit the source link below to get exploring. It's very simple, really, you can browse the entire Market catalog on your desktop or however else you're accessing the web, you can purchase anything that takes your fancy, and then -- via the magic of over-the-air transfers -- it downloads and installs onto your Android handset. A neat My Market Account section will let you nickname your registered devices to make them more recognizable as well.
Google has also just announced that Android will soon support in-app purchases. Widespread developer interest has been cited as the major reason for doing it, so you've got those lovable coders to thank for the oncoming wave of micropayments you'll have to deal with in your Android apps. The in-app purchasing SDK is releasing to devs today and will be "live to users prior to the end of this quarter."
Update: Invalid request. Yep, that's the message we keep getting when we try and download an app. Google promises that it should be working soon...
Update 2: And now it appears to be working!
Link
Just a few days late
Sent from your favorite carrier, black and yellow!
What do you work for Engadget or something? All you're doing is copy/pasting their stuff.
Last week called, it wants it's announcement back.
Light reading..
"A study done by mobile app monitoring company Crittercism had some interesting statistics. With the large number of iOS and Android operating systems still in use, it is no surprise that crashes happen on mobile operating systems. App developers are forced to test their apps on each OS to make sure they still work on the software of the past. From December 1st through the 15th, Crittercism noted crashes on 23 iOS operating systems and on 33 Android operating systems (that is the number on the graphs that separate both operating systems. The graph that combines iOS and Android shows 22 iOS crashes and 17 for Android).
The OS with the largest percentage of crashes was iOS 5.1 which had a hand in 28.64% of them. Older versions also crashed often. For example, iOS 4.2.10 was involved in 12.64% of the crashes and iOS 4.3.3 was involved in 10.66%. These stats are interesting because they reveal that many Apple iPhone owners take their sweet time to update their OS and some don't do it at all!"
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more @
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Which-platform-crashes-more-Android-or-iOS_id26542
This is misleading. Are they saying that the app crashes (if it is the app then prove it is not a programming issue), or does the OS crash?
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Most likely that the crashes are reported more and more often as technology gets better (automatic reports vs manual reports) etc.
CyanogenMod founder Steve Kondik has approved the bump from “nightly” to “release candidate” in the code repository, which means tonight instead of a nightly build we could get CyanogenMod 9 RC1.
CyanogenMod 9 logo
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The move would be largely symbolic.
The only difference between a nightly release and a release candidate is that the developers think the software is almost ready to call stable.
The next build won’t include any major features that weren’t in last night’s release.
Unless any major bugs are found in the release candidate phase, we could see CyanogenMod 9 stable within the next few weeks.
Not only is CyanogenMod 9 based on the Android Open Source Project (which means it doesn’t include any of the custom skins you get from most HTC, Samsung, or Motorola devices), but it also includes a number of tweaks to improve performance and offer more customization options.
For instance CM9 includes a custom launcher, a new music player, support for themes, and widgets for the lock screen.
It will probably take the developers less time to move from Android 4.0 to Android 4.1 than it took to update from Android 2.3 to Android 4.0 since the upcoming changes in Google’s operating system aren’t expected to be as dramatic.
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Get It Here or Direct Here
Hello XDA Community,
I invested over a year on this project and spent many frustrating hours getting a tablet based OS to perform like a version made for TV's.
This is not a finished product, but I thought some of you may find it useful. I am not a developer and therefore cannot guarantee an issue free experience. I stepped away from the project due to getting stuck in many areas. If anyone with the skills, time and willingness to help help me polish this OS is up to the task...feel free to send me a PM.
Without further delay, I present AvA ROM (Android Video Appliance) for Tinkerboard:
Demo video: AvA ROM - Boot Demo (boot pop-up in video is fixed)
Download: AvA ROM RC1
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Things to know:
Based on Android 7.1.2.
Play Store is preinstalled.
Works best with keyboard and mouse.
Plugging in wireless remotes causes severe slowdown (solution = Android TV Remote app).
Shutdown/sleep doesn't work well.
Should run on Tinkerboard S.
Not licensed for Netflix or Disney Plus (most other apps and games work).
Image is 2.46 GB in size (minimum 4GB SD card).
There are workarounds for the above licensing woes, solutions are just a Google search away.
I look forward to hearing some of you got to try it out.
Please remember to click the "Like" button.
Best regards,
CypherDR
a.k.a
WrekLess.