Update to Android 2.2 for Motorola Droid is now Official

From the twitter, Motorola announces the Android 2.2 update for Motorola Droid will rollout later in the summer.

 

Olive Pad in India

 

It is officially confirmed by a Technical support staff from Oliver Telecom that India’s first Android Powered Tablet with 3G capabilities by August 15th 2010.

The full spec about the Olive pad can be found in Oliver Telecom Website. 

And the technical support person has also confirmed that Olive Pad will be tagged as Rs.25,000 and will be available in all the Major Electronic Outlets.

Gingerbread in LG phones - Rumor

 

From a LGE Engineer, South Korea its rumored that LG Electronics is working in Google’s Android Operating System and its upcoming version known as Ginger Bread.

 

So, let us hope LG phones also getting inside Era of Android which they are lagging behind.

Quick Respond

Quick Respond is an Android application which I developed for my own usage, and I found it would be useful for others too.

The notification bar in the android phone is sometimes fuzzy and dragging down to see the missed caller is a one more extra task you need to do.

with the popup facility, it is easy to notify a user with the numbers and a set of options for that.

In Quick Respond application will show a popup with the recent missed caller information with the

1. SMS
2. Call options once the user unlocks the screen.

thus, it reduces one more step that you do every time.

Map My India On my Motorola Milestone [UK]

 

After seeing the Motorola milestone sold in India having India maps for Moto Nav, I was behind the motorola people in UK. I did not get a proper response and finally Indian technical support said, its never going to get launched in the Motorola Extras where you can download the maps for various counties.

Recently, I have seen a map for south east Asia and I am disappointed to see India is not there in the list of maps. I would like to keep the map application and use it in my car while I am travelling to various places in and out of the city.

Upon searching, I found an Indian company named ‘Map My India’ had the android application for Rs.2500 from Map My India web site. In the web site the support is only mentioned for HTC android devices. But still I took a chance to buy it for my Motorola Milestone purchased in UK. Because, I have HTC Magic also.

I placed an order and with in 4 days, I got the software shipped from Delhi. I followed the instructions to install the application in to my Motorola milestone and surprisingly, Map My India worked pretty well in my Motorola Milestone.

The map my India application named ‘Mobile maps 9’ is not as good as iGo or the Moto Nav application. But still as it is voice based turn to turn navigation its still useful. So, finally here is the India map for Motorola milestone.

Here is the screen shots of the ‘Map my India’ navigation application.

 

I will write more about this after using quite some time.

But, my first thought is,

1. The exit button is hidden some where inside and I am able to catch that after a good time of research. So, I expect at least in the next release they should keep the buttons handy in some way.

App history

This application is one of the very useful app I ever made for my own purpose.

This app just stores the Market information for a particular application in to the SD card of the phone in a Database.

So, when ever you install any application in the phone, your SD card remembers it. So, when you do a factory rest of the phone, just by installing the 'AppHistory' you can have market links to all of the apps you had.

I am going to update the application with more information like,

1. date of installation
2. Number of times you installed / un installed
3. Share the application to your firends via Twitter / Facebook / SMS / Email.
4. Share the application list [as a DB file] to your firends, etc very soon.




Thats it.. Enjoy with the applicaiton.

Bug Reporting Feature in Android Market

We found an interesting feature from May 20th in Android Application Publish page. We hope it is very much useful for the developers.

So far, developers are integrating logging utility and using applications like 'SendLog' to collect the log information while there was some issues. Now, Google has taken it serious to improve the Quality of Service.

Here after the, as an Android application developer you have got an additional responsibility to answer the bugs which are getting reported/logged as shown in the bellow images.

 

Here is the new feature looks like in the Android publishing page.

 

Some more information captured in the android market application publish page.

 

One of the crash report in the bird’s view.

 

A brief view of the crash in another page.