AdMob’s iPhone Developer Program carries a price tag of $1.0 million, but that’s not $1.0 million cash. Rather, AdMob will select upto “200 iPhone developers to receive $5,000 in AdMob advertising credit to acquire traffic for their web & native apps”.

“Browser Sync is a Firefox extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.”

Breeze is a mobile application development tool by Cascada Mobile, a mobile software company with headquarters in Toronto, Canada. Breeze can be used as a standalone simulator or as an Eclipse plugin, and it is free to download and use. The company has a list of applications that have been created with Breeze, and has produced the video below to demonstrate the capabilities of Breeze.

Metawidget takes your domain objects and automatically creates User Interface components for them, saving you handcoding your UIs and leaving you to concentrate on stitching together your application.

I’ve recently done some work to get JE running under Android. This platform is significantly different from J2SE in several ways, but it is still close enough to a “real” J2SE that JE can run on it. For instance, the Android heap size is fixed at 16MB (vs. 64MB on a Sun J2SE [...]

A new Android Software Development Toolkit (SDK) is about to be released, and according to Dan Morrill, Developer Advocate for Google, the new SDK will be sporting a retooled user interface. He made the comment while speaking at the Google Android Workshop in Munich, Germany.

The deadline for submission of projects in the Android Developer Challenge has been extended. The extension was the result of feedbacks from the Android developer community, and affects the deadlines for both the Challenge I and Challenge II parts of the contest.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), based in Cambridge, MA USA, plans to offer a class this term using the Android mobile platform’s SDK. That MIT will be offering a class on a software platform that is yet to be running on any publicly available device goes to show how much impact the Android [...]

What is missing in the Android SDK is the title of a post written by Fabrizio Capobianco back in late November, 2007. I think it is a well written post and I have reproduced it here in case you missed it.

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 [...]

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.

One complaint from developers about Android is that it should never have shipped with a relational database like SQLite. And that is due primarily to SQLite’s speed and performance. But this is where the advantages of Android as an Open Source platform shines: Developers are not tied down to any default application that ships with [...]