I just caught this from Everything Android:
Let’s get this straight people. If I by a a piece of hardware. It’s MY piece of hardware. And it is correct for my to run ANY piece of software that I legally obtain for it. I am not going to ask service providers about stuff that has nothing to do with them.
Pwn your own phones people.
Waaaay back in December, @googlenexus tweeted that
The Gingerbread OTA for Nexus One will happen in the coming weeks
It’s been about 4 of those weeks and still no update. Google insists that there is no unexpected problems. Though that is curious because there the widely reported random reboot bug, on the Nexus S, the only phone shipping with Gingerbread.
Please Google, don’t insult my intelligence. If everything is fine like you say, than give me date. If not then just say “we’ll be late”. And in the mean time you could offer up a a beta update.zip for those adventurous enough to want what you got anyway. You guys are famous for having beta projects in the wild.
Anyway, I got tired of waiting. Last week I rooted my N1 and installed Cynogen_mod 7. Should have done that AGES ago. Some advice if you are going to go this route use super one click on a windows machine. I tried on a running it on my Ubuntu laptop with Mono and all I got where hours of frustration.
Google just released the Android 2.3 SDK, but the new operating system will not be available until December 16th when the Nexus S goes on sale or the next few weeks when it hits the Nexus One
via How to install the Android SDK and play with Android 2.3 right now in the emulator – Android and Me.
WHOOOOOOO! HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Similar to Verizon’s bold move it looks as it Amazon may be considering to launch it’s on App store on Android devices. To compete with Google’s own, and Verizon’s VCAST app store the Amazon app store will offer some perks to developers as well. The online retailer will allegedly pay a royalty “equal to the greater of 70 percent of the purchase price or 20 percent of the List Price.” This “List Price” is said to help protect Amazon against the developers offering their apps for cheaper on the other markets.
via Amazon also considering it’s own Android App Store | Android Community.
I see this working in concert with Google’s App store. Google would be the place where anyone could get there foot in the door and providing paid or ad supported apps. And Amazon, would be the place where curated apps could be found, being of higher quality because Amazons recommendation engine would engine could weed out the dregs. Not to mention they receive payments in more places than Google checkout.
The Securing Android LVL Applications blog post makes it clear that an Android developer should use an obfuscation tool such as Proguard in order to help safeguard their applications when using License Server. Of course, this does present another question. How should one integrate such a tool with the Android build process? We’re specifically going to detail integrating Proguard in this post.
via Android Developers Blog: Proguard, Android, and the Licensing Server.
Lookout’s “App Genome Project” is an ongoing study of the millions of mobile applications available, the user data that they collect, and threats they present. During their research for the project, the team found a series of simple Wallpaper apps in the Android Market which were suspiciously collecting more data than they needed to.
I saw this story reported somewhere else and it had a link to a list of the suspect apps. As soon as I find it I will add it here.
UPDATE:
The claims by Lookout has been retracted. The developer was not collecting any personally identifiable data from phones, just unique IDs so that settings could be restored from one phone to another. Here is the story from the Android Guys.
