The most beautiful Android application I have used to date is the brand new Twitter app. Last night I fell in love with the new app, created by Twitter itself — and really, that’s kinda crappy since I feel like I’m cheating on a company I really really like: Seesmic. Rumor has it that Google will be including Twitter stuff into their Android API for Froyo (2.2) — which will make it extremely easy for applications to tap into this functionality. If that turns out to happen, developers will rejoice (except Seesmic and Twitdroid of course). As a developer, you must currently roll your own Twitter client if you want to incorporate that type of functionality — and with a host of independent Twitter applications, it’s impossible to create an app that hooks into Android’s intent system effectively. Applications should be able to reuse an already installed Twitter app by saying “Hey, i want to post a tweet” to the Android OS, and have it launch the user’s default Twitter app to perform that operation. I’m really looking forward to Froyo! Garett Rogers has always had a deep interest in computers and the Internet, which led him to a degree in Computer Information Systems. He is currently employed as a programmer for iQmetrix. Garett Rogers has always had a deep interest in computers and the Internet, which led him to a degree in Computer Information Systems. He is currently employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software designed specifically for the cellular and electronics industry. Garett's journey into Google started with his employer asking him to "get a better rank on Google." Diving into search engine optimization sparked his curiosity for how things work and led him to create a blog dedicated to what interests him most--Google. Read More
Summary: Back when the Nexus One was announced in January Google showed us all Google Earth running on the device, but they failed to mention it was not on the shipping devices we all bought. Many of us looked around on the device and in the Android Market looking for Google Earth and then we finally discovered it would be coming sometime in the near future. Well that time is now and you can find Google Earth in the Android Market Back when the Nexus One was announced in January Google showed us all Google Earth running on the device, but they failed to mention it was not on the shipping devices we all bought. Many of us looked around on the device and in the Android Market looking for Google Earth and then we finally discovered it would be coming sometime in the near future. Well that time is now and you can find Google Earth in the Android Market for free. It requires Android 2.1 and is targeted towards the Nexus One, but I have read reports of people using it on the Motorola DROID too. My first attempt at running it on my Nexus One failed miserably with an alert pop-up stating that I did not have enough memory available to store data. I deleted several programs so I could have 30MB of free space and still received the warning with a tap of the icon quitting the program. Wow, how much of a memory hog is this application? I searched around and discovered some people experiencing the same thing who then went and removed Google Earth, rebooted and then reloaded after freeing up some space. After I did all of this, then the application finally started up. It runs quite smoothly and is visually very nice on Read More
