Android is eating everyone’s lunch in the U.S. – except for Apple’s

The latest U.S. smartphone market share data from comScore shows an interesting twist compared to global data. Fast growth in emerging markets has sent Apple’s global market share plummeting, but the big-money U.S. smartphone market is still very much driven by high-end handsets. According to comScore’s latest data, Apple’s share of the U.S. smartphone market climbed to 39% in Q1 2013 from 36.3% in the fourth quarter last year. Over the same period of time, Android’s share of the U.S. market slid from 53.4% to 52%. Perhaps even more interesting than the figures themselves, however, is the trend among mobile operating systems in the U.S. — Android is still the nation’s top smartphone platform by a healthy margin, but its remarkable growth stopped the iPhone from...

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Yahoo's latest Android app integrates Summly for faster news scanning

Last week, Yahoo released an updated version of its iOS app with integrated news summaries courtesy of its recent acquisition, Summly, and now the same thing is arriving on Android. First spotted by Android Police, the new Yahoo looks practically identical to its iOS counterpart, and contains the same feature list: a never-ending visual stream of news stories, sharing to Facebook and Twitter, and an improved web search that includes images and video. Summly's summaries condense long news articles down to 400 characters, providing more information than a headline, but remaining easy to skim at a glance. If you were patiently waiting for the Android version of Summly only to see it get shelved in the Yahoo acquisition, your time is now. That is, if you...

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Samsung Galaxy S Advance's Android 4.1.2 XXLQE update starts rolling out

Samsung has begun rolling out a new Android 4.1.2 Jelly Beanupdate for its Galaxy S Advance mid-range smartphone, starting with Europe. Galaxy S Advance owners can check for the availability of the update in their region via the Samsung Kies software. The firmware update, specifically called the Android 4.1.2 XXLQE Jelly Bean firmware for the Galaxy S Advance I9070, can be installed on any Galaxy S Advance, except those that are from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The update is for now available in Germany, Poland and Ukraine, but should roll out globally soon. The Samsung Galaxy S Advance’s Android 4.1.2 update will bring a load of improvements and fixes to the device, including an improved user interface and TouchWiz UI, as well as performance enhancements. The new build...

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Samsung focuses on features in latest GALAXY S 4 ads

In case you aren’t a fan of the NBA and haven’t seen Samsung’s latest round of GALAXY S 4commercials this weekend, they’ve been pretty direct at poking fun at the iPhone. This week however, Samsung decided to leave out the iPhone and play nice with two brand new ad spots showcasing features of their GALAXY S 4 flagship smartphone. We enjoy watching the funny commercials, but these are good too. Instead of making fun of those iDevices and having people question their old iPhone purchases. Or just going crazy like Microsoft’s latest attempts to lure buyers, they opted to keep these two newest TV commercials short and sweet. The first was 90 seconds long and called “Grad Pool Party” but below you can enjoy their two latest, and shorter commercials. Below you’ll find the new 30...

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RunKeeper Pebble support arrives with latest Android app update

The Pebble support comes along with RunKeeper version 3.3 and in addition, there are a few other features that have been added. The Pebble support is on the simpler side, here you basically have a secondary display that will show your current RunKeeper stats. Basically, you can now look towards your wrist to see the pertinent data from your run (or other exercise session) as opposed to having to look at your smartphone. RunKeeper became the first confirmed Pebble app a little more than a year ago and while news on that front has been a bit quiet, there is a bit of news for those who may have been waiting. In short, the RunKeeper Android app has been updated and it has brought support for thePebble smartwatch. Shifting away from the Pebble and we also have talk of widgets...

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tutorial for spinner in android

/* * Copyright (C) 2010 The Android Open Source Project * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package com.android.example.spinner; import com.android.example.spinner.R; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.content.SharedPreferences; import...

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tutorial for radiogroup and radio button

Using RadioGroups and RadioButtons, You often use radio buttons when a user should be allowed to only select one item from a small group of items. For instance, a question asking for gender can give three options: male, female, and unspecified. Only one of these options should be checked at a time.The RadioButton objects are similar to CheckBox objects.They have a text label next to them, set via the text attribute, and they have a state (checked or unchecked). However, you can 148 Chapter 7 Exploring User Interface Screen Elements group RadioButton objects inside a RadioGroup that handles enforcing their combined states so that only one RadioButton can be checked at a time. If the user selects a RadioButton that is already checked, it does not...

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Tutorial for Bluetooth

BluetoothChat /* * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package com.example.android.BluetoothChat; import android.app.ActionBar; import android.app.Activity; import android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapter; import android.bluetooth.BluetoothDevice; import...

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