Archive for the ‘Apps’ category

App Inventor Goes Open Source with MIT

January 23rd, 2012

App Inventor Gets Open Source Treatment Thanks To MIT | TalkAndroid.com.

App Inventor was the ambitious Google project that allowed regular people to create mobile apps using a WYSIWYG approach. This limited app creation tool was recently shelved by Google and now has been resurrected by MIT.

MIT Center for Mobile Learning is the new home for the App Inventor code. You can reach it by visiting the following link.
http://appinventoredu.mit.edu/developers-blogs/hal

Devs load early Android 4.0 build on the NOOK Tablet – Liliputing

January 13th, 2012

Devs load early Android 4.0 build on the NOOK Tablet – Liliputing.

Yes that’s right! You are looking at a Nook Tablet booting I.C.S. Android 4.0x

The Nook Tablet signed boot loader has apparently been cracked and development on porting CM9 (CyanogenMod 9) to the device is underway. :) :)

from nemith on XDA

So now that we have found the leaking crack in the bootloader and proved it’s usefulness fat-tire and others are going to start work on a couple of key projects that I could use a little help on.

This will also keep conspiracy theorists at bay who call me “extremely low IQ male rooster with social development issues” (Also I have no pies)

Here is how i see the next steps:

Strip down uboot (or other bootloader) and teach it boot from it’s own partition.

For example install 2nduboot in /boot, hijacking the signature check and then setting a 1MB offset to look for the real, unsigned boot.img. Repeat for recovery.

This is the real hold up and why there is nothing to “flash” as of yet. (still no pies)

Finish CWM. 100% done.
Completed. See recovery.img here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show….php?t=1440645

Work on CM9 for both SDcard and internal booting

SlideIT Keyboard Available this Week for only 99 Cents! | AndroidSPIN

January 11th, 2012

SlideIT Keyboard Available this Week for only 99 Cents! | AndroidSPIN.

This is probably the closest alternative to the Swype keyboard and it’s only $0.99 this week.

Grab it while you can!

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dasur.slideit&feature

Vimeo launches Android, WP7 mobile apps; previews revamped iPhone, iPad apps | VentureBeat

January 9th, 2012

Vimeo launches Android, WP7 mobile apps; previews revamped iPhone, iPad apps | VentureBeat.

Vimeo’s site traffic from mobile has more than doubled in the last year.

Joe Schmitt, Vimeo’s head of mobile, told us that the percentage of mobile-based site traffic has doubled in the last year. He said Vimeo’s total traffic coming from mobile was at 7 percent in Jan. 2010 and that now sits at 15 percent.

No wonder they are releasing mobile apps for Android and WindowsPhone 7!

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