First News About Android On This Blog
Eventually I was making this blog to post news about Windows Mobile phones, iPhone and Android news. But as long as Android hasn’t much to shine right now, this is the post about android here. And it’s a good news! There will be a store, where Android users will be able to get their applications, and developers sell their stuff. Just like upcoming iPhone App Store. This is pretty amazing, i guess after success of both of them, microsoft will lauch their app store for Windows Mobile users. Here is the quote by Andy Rubin, project leader:
“It would be a great benefit to the Android community to provide a place where people can go to safely and securely download content and where a billing system would allow developers to get paid for their effort…We wouldn’t have done our job if we didn’t provide something that helps developers get distribution.”
This is pretty good, because developers are not limited with as much as iPhone app developers are. While Android is not avaliable in the market, we are looking forward to touch it and visit the App Store for Android users.
New iPhone SDK Beta - Yes to Backgrond Processes?
The most dissappointing thing in SDK was that Apple limited software to run as a background process, which means, you won’t be able to have programs such as Instant Messagers, or maybe apps for themes and many more possabilities. Here is the quote of an developer who has reviewed latest SDK Beta 4:
There are definitely some very interesting methods added to UIApplication’s delegate, including methods for badging the Springboard icon, and methods related to gaining and resigning “active” status - seems like background apps may be permitted somehow.