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Android Design Preview: Preview on Smartphones While Developing Mobile Apps

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

The programmer Roman Nurik offered Android application development professionals a very interesting tool – Android Design Preview. This application will allow mobile app developers to present visually how their app will look like on the smartphone screen.

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The suggested application provides a possibility of previewing the chosen part of the computer desktop on the Android screen. The picture is updated in the real time mode and thus a programmer will be able to trace all inserted updates. By the way, the software developers for iPhone were offered a similar program program – LiveView – long ago.

For functioning, the Android Design Preview application will need a USB-conncetion between a computer and a mobile device, the Java Runtime Environment, deployed on a user’s computer and the Android SDK set of tools. However, there is one big drawback of the program – the absence of WiFi support. But even with this drawback the application will be interesting for specialists.

Android Design Preview is a special open source code program available for most operating systems, including Mac, Windows and Linux.

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GooglePhone Wins World Leading Positions

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

New generation of mobile phones arises into the market. Most famous representatives of this generation are new mobile phones developed on Android platform created by Google Corporation.

The first GooglePhone’s name is G1 Smartphone or HTC Dream produced by HTC and Google. It was on sale in October 2008. And only one year later in February 2009 new GooglePhone was presented. Its name is HTC Magic and this Android smartphone has new outstanding design and new functions.

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The success of Google Phone is considered very high. That’s why HTC made decision not to stop and create one more GooglePhone called HTC Hero. The first pictures of this phone are already available.
The tendency of GooglePhone creation didn’t pass by major mobile phone producers. Samsung produced its version of GooglePhone called Samsung i7500.

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Motorola is going to edit at least two Android-smartphones. One of them is Motorola Calgary.
And Australian phone producer Kogan is planning to present its version of GooglePhone to the end of 2009. It will be Kogan Agora and its modified version Kogan Agora Pro.

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As we can see, iPhone has got really serious competitor. The popularity of GooglePhones grows every day. More and more software development companies start new services – Android application development. The reason is obvious, Google Android is open platform made on Linux. It guarantees free development of applications. Developers have all rights to create and upload their Android application wherever they want. Of course, there exist centralized resource Android Market, but Google unlike Apple is not taking part of profits from selling application. Only developers and mobile operators get all the money from application downloads. This fact confirms that GooglePhone is becoming more attractive for leading mobile application developers.

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