Posts Tagged ‘android’

Android on the move, gets Facebook respect

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Facebook announced its new SDK for Android developers today. One of our developers was at Google I/O last week where Facebook was showing a developer preview.

Up until now the ways to integrate Facebook into Android applications were hacks that weren’t officially supported by Facebook. But in a nod to the fast-growing popularity of [...]

Android users: 73% male

Friday, March 5th, 2010

It looks like Android users are overwhelmingly guys (73%!):

Got an Android phone? You’re probably a man

Are most early adopters men or is it something inherent to the platform?

Here are some more mobile stats: AdMob Mobile Stats January 2010

Tutorial: Making your WordPress blog Android and iPhone friendly

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Good tutorial by the Android and Me guys about making your WordPress blog Android and iPhone friendly. Includes code samples and information about mobile detection, viewports and tips and tricks on resizing images properly.

Tutorial: Making your WordPress blog Android and iPhone friendly – Android and Me.

Android market share up, again

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

comScore’s December 2009 report on Mobile Market share shows Android is at 5.2% (up 2.7 from September).  Apple continues to grow, while RIM, Microsoft, and Palm all dropped.  While still last among the five, Android is showing strong growth and is on track to overtake Palm very soon.

ArsTechnica’s summary: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/02/google-makes-biggest-gain-in-smartphone-market-share.ars

Full comScore report: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/2/comScore_Reports_December_2009_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share

More evidence of Android’s takeover?

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

ChangeWave’s December survey shows Android is used by 4% of smart-phone users (up 3% from September).

Android is the choice for 21% of people planning to buy a smart-phone in the next 90 days (up 15% from September). Compare this to iPhone’s figure of 28%, down 4 points.  Satisfaction of Android users is at 72%, almost [...]

Mobile Metrics – Oct 2009 numbers

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

AdMob’s October 2009 mobile metrics report is out, and it’s clear that the Droid may be a serious contender to the iPhone.  Just two weeks after its launch, the Droid accounts for 24% of Android requests.

It should be noted that AdMob measures requests to its advertising delivery system from applications and mobile websites.  These numbers [...]

Mobile OS Market Share Updates

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Gartner released a report last Thursday, November 12, which showed some market share movements in the mobile OS space. iPhone and RIM gained market share, while Symbian and Windows Mobile lost share. Android has gone from 0 to almost 4% of market share. This is in line with Gartner’s prediction that by 2012, Android will [...]

Envelope Budget System for Android

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

We’re happy to announce that we just launched our first Android™ application! Meet EEBA, the Easy Envelope Budget Aid.

Android’s been all the rage recently with every major carrier making announcements about Android phones and Gartner predicting that by 2012 Android will overtake iPhone. Its open source nature makes it a [...]

3 Things, Mobile Phone Usability and m-commerce

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Three Things

At a Java developers’ conference a couple years ago, I remember hearing a keynote where Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, talked about the three things that a person always has when they leave the house: their keys, their wallet and their mobile phone. The point is that mobile phones have become a [...]

Mobile Web development with Android

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Does your current Web strategy include a smartphone accessible Web application? A couple of Dayspring-ers just demo’d a handly little application running on a Google-supplied Android phone. And good timing, as T-Mobile will be bringing out its second Android phone this summer.

But now T-Mobile is coming back with another attempt at an Android phone in [...]