Advertisements Developers have finally gained root access on Sony’s Honeycomb tablet S and instructions are available for normal users. All you need is ADB access on your computer and a few files (which can be downloaded from here) and you are good to go.
Category: Android Development
Advertisements Koushik Dutta has released the touch version of his famed ClockworkMOD recovery for 25 Android phones now. This recovery uses touch input instead of the tradition button based input for actions. While, it is more user-friendly, it also solves the issue for button-less devices.
Advertisements HP has finally decided to do some good and give their internal Touchpad Android kernel source code as well as other GPL components to CyanogenMOD team working on the Android port for this webOS running tablet.
Advertisements Chinese start-up Xiaomi, which is also the creator of MIUI Android ROM, has decided to make the code of MIUI, open-source. Developers will be able to grab the source over at Github, however the entire source is not available right now but will be soon.
Advertisements A very interesting report has come to light today from mobile app monitoring startup Crittercism, which puts forward a data driven conclusion that is in contrast with the popular belief. Android is often accused of being fragmented, beta software, bugs and what not, but in reality our friends with iOS aren’t any better off.
Advertisements Google has launched official Android Developers page on Google+. Company plans to help developers, promote Android, give a sneak peek of upcoming dev tools and a lot more on this page.
Advertisements Prematurely outed earlier today, Motorola RAZR Developer Edition has been officially announced just now and can be pre-ordered by European developers. It has been priced at 499 Euros and comes with no warranty. Clearly not for everyone!
Advertisements After teasing the first version of Touch version of popular ClockworkMOD recovery a few days, Koushik Dutta has released beta for Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S smartphones today.