Tag Archives: android

Numerous companies are offering solutions to secure mobile devices in the enterprise by supporting a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy inside the government. Yet even the most robust solutions are still unable to protect mobile devices from the large … Continue reading →

We have received a ton of feedback since the launch of STG for Android, so I am excited to let you in on what we have been working on the last few months. We have beefed up our development team … Continue reading →

Using the BlackBerry Online Packager for Android apps, we were able to quickly convert our Android app into a Blackberry PlayBook app to run on RIM’s “Runtime for Android Apps.” The process was pretty straight-forward, approval was relatively painless and … Continue reading →

Fragmentation is an often cited issue of the Android ecosystem, but the people who really bear the brunt of it are not so much the end users, but the developers who have to create applications to support multiple versions of … Continue reading →

One area that has always been a bit lacking for Android developers is the online documentation at http://developer.android.com. It’s getting better with each new release but is still far from perfect. One area which has left many developers lost is … Continue reading →

One of the Google services which received an update recently, announced at Google I/O 2012, was the Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) service. The next iteration has been labelled Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). Along with the moniker change, there are … Continue reading →

A fundamental reason for Android’s success is due to its true multitasking and the central notification system in which users can see important messages from applications. Notifications have been a cornerstone of the Android operating system since its inception and … Continue reading →

As we go through the formalities of publishing Safari To Go for Android in the Nook & Kindle app stores, we would like to turn you on to a few alternative download methods for the Kindle Fire, B&N Nook and … Continue reading →

Unprecedented mobility is affecting the enterprise space, in a big way. If you haven’t heard of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)–a term coined to encompass consumer mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) usage in enterprise space–then you probably haven’t been following … Continue reading →

When you are testing Android applications, you find yourself doing the same things again and again: Installing the application Running it Changing the emulator network configuration (DNS server, proxy settings…) Dumping the application data and logs Re-installing and re-running the … Continue reading →