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MyFlexRadio has been published on the Android Market and is officially affiliated with MyFlexRadio.com. Go get it!

MyFlexRadio

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chronix Radio has been published on the Android Market and is officially affiliated with chroniX Radio. Go get it!

chronix Radio

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Android Bartender is little drink recipe search engine app I put together for fun. It has 32,479 drink recipes that are search-able by name or ingredient. Drink recipes can be shared by any means supported by your phone… email, messaging, facebook, twitter, etc.

Check it out: Android Bartender on appbrain.com

I just found out a few minutes ago that one of my friends released a kickass mod based on Cyanogen ROM 6. Please check it out and show him some love.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824160

I am proud to announce the public beta of andAMP (Android Awesome Music Player). This full featured music player is my idea of what a media player should be. It is simple to use and has all of the features you should ever need in a music player application… but I have more features planned and hope to make andAMP one of the best music player applications available on the market.

Features

• Simple to use interface – manage everything from a single location rather than 5 different windows for everything
• Full playlist support with playlists available as regular albums… even with customizable cover images!
• Retrieve missing album covers from the internet (Google Images)
• ID3 Tag Editor for single songs or complete albums
• Party Shuffle Mode – continuous playback of random songs from your whole collection
• Shuffle Mode – shuffle playback of songs within your playlist or current play queue
• Song Search – know the name of the song but can’t remember what album it’s in? This simple search solves that problem.
• Song Mode – if you just want to listen to songs as you click on them… this mode is for you.
• Attractive cover scroller… kind of like coverflow but not
• Current song indicators – First, the song that is playing will have a little speaker next to it… secondly, the player will automatically select the album that the song is from.
• Continuous Play – select continuous play to play the same list or song over and over
• Mostly bug free! Look… every application on the planet has issues every once in awhile but we have done everything we can to test every feature… help us out and find bugs!

Screenshots

andAMP Interface

andAMP Interface

More andAMP Interface

Play Queue

Save Queue to Playlist

Song ID3 Tag Editor

Album ID3 Tag Editor (mass editor)

Song Search

Song Search Results

Album Menu (Long Press Album Cover)

Change Album Cover from Google Images Search

Playlist Menu (Long Press Playlist Cover)

Playlist Default Cover

Playlist with a custom Cover

You can Download the Beta Here:

Download andAMP from AndroidWorkz
Download andAMP from Android Market

I upgraded System Explorer this morning.

What’s New

• Users can now send files via email – tested with Gmail
• Fixed a couple of bugs with the menu context
• Added tabs to the bottom of the window
• Added Help
• Added Quit button

Get it here: AppBrain or here: Android Market

Today we have launched our first application on the Android Market. It is a full featured file manager with built in text editor, image viewer and zip utility.

Features

• File Manager
• Text Editor
• Image Viewer
• Zip Utility
• Install APK files from your SD Card
• Open Media Files from your SD Card
• Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete files from your SD Card

Another huge difference between the iPhone OS and Android is the development cycle. I don’t know Objective C but I can’t imagine that it is easier to write applications in than Java and if the truth be told when I was looking through the documentation for Objective C it gave me a headache. From a career standpoint, it doesn’t make any sense for me to learn a language that I see as proprietary… it’s the same reason I don’t code in Visual Basic or J++. I CAN learn to do it if I want… because almost all object oriented programming languages share the same basic principles… it’s only a matter of learning syntax (which can be helped by syntax hinting in most good IDE’s). This brings us to a possibly revealing announcement yesterday from Layar that has shocked alot of people.

Amsterdam, June 2nd 2010. Today Layar introduces a new way to browse with the latest Layar Reality Browser (version 3.5). The rapid growth of content within Layar increases the need for real time location based search. With the new version of the browser users can now easily discover and experience Augmented Reality without the need to enter a search query or open a specific layer. Users will immediately see the most interesting content nearby whenever they open the Layar Reality Browser, taking Augmented Reality from novelty to utility.

What’s interesting about this announcement is that if you visit their site and read the press release you find this:

Layar Reality Browser version 3.5 with Stream Technology is available now for download in the Android Market. The iPhone release will be available soon.

So basically, they have released the Android version but not an iPhone version yet… since the release is merely an update for an application that is already on the iPhone apps market they don’t have to wait for approval… so that leads to the speculation that seems logical. It’s easier to develop applications for Android and they released the application that was completed while they are continuing development on the iPhone version. What do you think happened?

Layar’s Reality Browser revolutionizes mobile content discovery, by simply presenting the most interesting mobile content based on a user’s location & preferences. When launching the Layar Reality Browser users will be presented with a dynamic list of the most interesting content at their location. The list is sorted by time, location, proximity, popularity and preferences. The benefit of a list is that discovery is now possible without the need to hold the device up. It lowers the threshold to find interesting content, encouraging daily use.

About Layar
Layar is the world’s leading Augmented Reality Platform and browser on mobile. The Layar Reality Browser has more than 2 million users and serves 2.4 million augmented objects every day. The browser comes pre-installed on tens of millions of phones from leading handset manufacturers and carriers by the end of the year.

Over 700 layers are published on the Layar Platform with over 2500 in development. These layers are developed by the global community of 3500 Layar publishers and producers, and by leading brands and agencies. Layar is located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company is VC funded and has 32 employees.

The free Layar Reality Browser is available on Android devices and iPhone 3GS. The Layar Platform is available for anyone to create their own Augmented Reality experiences on.

Android 2.2 promises a huge speed boost as well as additional features such as tethering. Here is a summary of some of the promises in this upgrade.

Performance & speed: The new Dalvik JIT compiler in Android 2.2 delivers between a 2-5X performance improvement in CPU-bound code vs. Android 2.1 according to various benchmarks.

New enterprise capabilities: We’ve added Exchange capabilities such as account auto-discovery and calendar sync. Device policy management APIs allow developers to write applications that can control security features of the device such as the remote wipe, minimum password, lockscreen timeout etc.

Faster, more powerful browser: We have brought the V8 JavaScript engine to the Android browser as part of 2.2. This has resulted in a 2-3X improvement in JavaScript performance vs. 2.1.

Rich set of new APIs and services: New data backup APIs enable apps to participate in data backup and restore, allowing an application’s last data to be restored when installed on a new or a reset device. Apps can utilize Android Cloud to Device Messaging to enable mobile alert, send to phone, and two-way push sync functionality. Developers can now declare whether their app should be installed on internal memory or an SD card. They can also let the system automatically determine the install location. On the native side, a new API now gives access to Skia bitmaps.

Additions to Android Market: Android Market provides Android Application Error Reports, a new bug reporting feature, giving developers access to crash and freeze reports from users. Developers will be able to access these reports via their account on the Android Market publisher website.

Official Android 2.2 Video