MonolithAndroid has been updated to version 1.0.2 alpha. This release has a few bug releases and some graphical improvements:

Corrected a bug in monolith mode that resulted in incorrect display of the cells when evolution began
Improved status font rendering
Added a backdrop (moon tycho crater)
Changed the color of monolith blocks to white
Improved U shaped playfield rendering

Google, Inc. has announced another Challenge, and this one has nothing to do with the Android platform, or pre-College age students. This newly announced Challenge - Google Online Marketing Challenge - has to do with online advertising and it involves university students. The Challenge is open to undergraduate and post-graduate students in any [...]

The blogosphere has been agog since yesterday over a USA Today original story about A La Mobile’s Android application suite running on an HTC Qtek 9090 handset. Rather than write an article about something we have not seen, we decided to wait until we have something concrete to base a story on. What we ended [...]

The next generation of mobile devices were showcased at the Intel booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2008) in Las Vegas. The devices, dubbed Mobile Internet Devices (MID), is an indication of the type of mobile devices that will become part of our daily lives within the next few months. You will see [...]

NavXS (NAVigation eXchange Service) is a social geocoding service that enables users to exchange and share location information with their friends and contacts. With NavXS, you can keep track of your contacts movement relative to yours - in real time, and the service comes with a Web-based user interface that enables users to track their [...]

Bancomap is a very simple application that shows a list of Automated Teller Machine (atm) kiosks close to an address. Clicking an item in the list brings up an atm on a map. Only Italian addresses are supported at this time. A couple of screen shots from the project.

Herocraft, a games maker based in Kaliningrad, Russia, has been porting some of its games to the Android platform. Although no full working game has been made available, they have provided screen shots and a YouTube video.

MonolithAndroid is a block game for the Android platform. At present it has two game modes. Classic mode looks and plays like the classic game tetris. Monolith fuses tetris gameplay with Conway’s game of life. So when the player completes a line that has a black block in it, the game grid evolves following the [...]

Qualcomm, a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) and a leading chip manufacturer, has announced that one of its subsidiaries, MediaFLO USA, will be providing TV shows on mobile devices. MediaFLO, based in San Diego, California USA, will begin offering TV shows from CBS, FOX, MTV and NBC on its FLO TV™ [...]

The Terms and Conditions governing participation in the Android Developer Challenge was released last week, and I’m sure most developers wishing to submit a project have already read the 11-page document. What we have done here is a quick reference guide for those times when you need to check up on something and don’t feel [...]

Tasos Kleisas has updated Monolithandroid, a 3D Tetris-like Game for Android. Released under the Apache License 2.0, Monolithandroid uses openGL ES for graphics rendering and, in addition to the classic tetris game mode, comes with two additional game modes - Dizzy and Monolith.

Google has just made the application forms and the Terms and Conditions for the Android Developer Challenge available. The announcement was one day late, but developers who have been waiting to review the Terms and Conditions can now do so here.