Category Archives: Development

One the criticisms surrounding Android from the beginning is that there’s never been an official set of design guidelines and interface patterns. The result was a slew of very functional, but very spartan (some might even go so far as saying ugly) looking applications. Today, Android finally gets a design guide.

HTC has announced HTCdev and the OpenSense SDK, in a bid to be more open and welcoming to developers, offering support for “mobile apps and experiences across HTC portfolio of devices”.

Developers will be able to provide multiple APKs for a given application from next month onwards, which will allow developers to release multiple versions of the same application, each tailored to a specific subset of hardware.

The last release of the Honeycomb SDK was just a preview, and very buggy (the emulator was nearly unusable). Google has now released the final, official Android 3.0 SDK and associated tools.