Since then, reports have come in suggesting that 25-30 other employees have left Valve, with a possible focus on Android development and hardware teams.
Besides, is Nokia really going to dedicate staff to Android development when its more advanced Ovi Maps still aren't available on its much touted Maemo MeeGo mobile computing platform?
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The more we scan it, the more we realize that the list of winners reads like a who's-who catalog of apps we know we want installed on our Dreams out of the gate -- and more importantly, it looks like Google has a great way here to encourage best-of-breed Android development over the long run.
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The upstart company behind Offset4Poor, a website and free iPhone app (Blackberry and Android in development), wants your offset dollars to help the poor.
What you see above, and demonstrated in the video after the break, is the gadget that was handed out to attendees who went to learn about the Android Accessory Development Kit.
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What sort of impact would an OnLive shutdown have on fledgling in-development Android console Ouya?
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This year I decided to buy the Google unlocked Galaxy Nexus, thinking of doing some development on Android.
New versions of 3DMark for Windows 8 and Android are currently in development and are expected to be released in 2012.
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It sends data to iPhones (Android's in development) running the Melon app, which translates that info into a focus graph -- generally speaking, the higher the neural activity in your pre-frontal cortex, the higher your level of focus.
Separately, the company is also releasing a smart power strip, which logs your energy use for various gadgets, and then sends that data to an iOS app. (An Android version is in development.) No word on how much it'll cost in the US, though in Europe it'll cost 64 euro, tax included.
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With the addition of Mono for Android to its existing Mono development tools, Novell is enabling Microsoft .
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We have also seen development of the Android operating system focus on the inclusion of more desktoplike features.
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In early August, Adobe said its Flash Player plug-in for Android was being removed because development of the code had been halted.
Among the 55 developers who work with both operating systems, 84% said iOS was best for ease of development, with Android at 5%, Windows at 2% and 9% unsure.
The second part of this doubled-edged attack on platform fragmentation comes from a simple reality: we're hearing that Google may be nearing the end of its breakneck development pace on Android's core and shifting attention to apps and features.
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Mono for Android consists of the core Mono runtime, bindings for native Android APIs, a Visual Studio 2010 plugin to develop Android applications, and a software development kit that contains all the tools needed to build, debug and deploy applications.
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Their Sailfish OS is still under development, but has an Android Compatibility Layer that should answer one of the concerns of a new platform, but it still ties them to Google.
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In Android, which is primarily a Java-like development environment, it solves a different problem.
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The first Strand cubesat currently in development will incorporate a Google Nexus One Android phone.
Third, he says that Google recently decided to include the MIPS architecture as part of its software development kits for the next generation of Android and beyond.
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The producers of the aforementioned Android controllers will rely on developers using their free software development kits to include controller support for their games.
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Shenzhen Scope Scientific Development has undercut its larger rivals with its Android 3.2-based Scopad SP0712, which has a range of features and the requisite seven-inch screen.
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More broadly, if manufacturers are struggling to keep their handset launch schedules in sync with Google's in-house development, it's no wonder that Android skins seem so unsympathetic to the green robot's natural complexion.
The hot area in software development is now mobile apps for the iPhone and Android platforms, both of which have very high penetration in Hong Kong.
OpenFeint is a social games development platform like an Xbox Live for the iPhone and Android phones.
Google has its own digital newsstand under development and it wants to make similar inroads with its Android platform, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Rubin sees Google Play content additions as key to driving Android tablet adoption, not the encouragement of tablet-specific app development -- he'd prefer the one-size-fits-all model.
But beyond just Android games we've already seen, still-in-development Unreal Engine 3 title Hawken was also given a multiplayer run, and looked notably more attractive than the previous two titles.
Those who want a more open Web-savvy alternative to the iPhone have had one for a few months in the T-Mobile G1, but those who have wanted a more open alternative to the iPod touch that leverages smartphone development will also have an option this fall in the Android-based Movit mini.
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