Apps
Android 1.x users now make up only about 10% of the market.
I was looking at the platform versions that were using Android Market for the first two weeks of February. Android 1.x users now make up 10.1% of the users using Android market. I haven’t been able to figure out how many users use the market in a given month, so I’m unsure how many users 10% is.
For many applications the API changes in 1.x to 2.x isn’t that important. In fact of all my applications, Only Private Browser could make good use of the 2.x API. (Photo of the Day uses live wallpapers, so it has to use 2.x, so it doesn’t count.) I would recommend supporting the lowest API version that fits your applications design, because why cut your market by 10% if you don’t have too. Also, there might be less competition in the 1.x market, because all the new applications will probably target 2.x just because its newer.
There are a lot of great API improvements in 2.x. Opengl support is better, the webkit object actually exports the plugin interface, and the you can catch ssl certificate errors, and redirections. There are a ton of other great changes that are documented in the API differences pages.
So what do you guys think, Should I drop support for 1.x in Private Browser? Are you going to drop support for 1.x in the near future? Take the poll and leave a comment and let me know what you think. Frankly I’m on the fence right now.
-James
Loading ...Version 2.2.5 of Free Private Browser Released!
As my gift to you, I have ported all the killer features from Private Browswer to Free Private Browser. This includes Bookmark support, High Speed Render Support, Mute Media Volume on Start, and a whole bunch of other things. I hope you check it out and enjoy it! If you have any comments or suggestions please leave a comment or send me an email! Merry Christmas!
-James
New version of Digital Drug in the works.
A new version of Digital Drug is in the works that will let you pick your tone frequency and the harmonic frequency. I was just about to release it but some jerk stole my headphones from work 
I’m going to try and get it out this weekend. Happy Thanksgiving!
-James
Private Browser Update
Sorry for no post in so long. Just finished sunspider test of private browser vs stock browser. I have made lots of improvements to private browser and my test version is 15% faster then stock! Look for a new version this week.
-James
Rattlesnake 1.0 released!
Good news everyone! Rattlesnake 1.0 is released! Rattlesnake is a upgraded version of the snake game from the android samples. I added lives, levels, touch controls and speed up the game play. It works with Android 1.5 and newer. There are 23 levels, but its really hard which I like. Check it out on the market: here
Screenshot:
Screenshot of Rattlesnake 1.0
Motorola Droid Bug – Publishing Livewall paper on Android Market
Photo of the Day wasn’t showing up on the market no matter what I tried. It turns out that Moto Droid /Milestone has a bug where it thinks it dosn’t support live wall papers. (See here and here too)
What your supposed to do is have this in your applications manifest if your app requires a live wallpaper:
<uses-feature android:name=”android.software.live_wallpaper” />
Unfortanlty the Moto Droid has a bug and dosn’t support it, so if you place it in the manifist, it dosn’t showup in the market for all the orginal droid users out there.
You might think its as simple as removing the line and just using the uses sdk tag, but that dosn’t work because not all the 2.1 phones support live wallpapers. For some reason the droid eris and Samsung Moment don’t. Crazy. What where they thinking. When I think of 2.1 I think of live wallpapers!
-James
Photo of the Day 1.3
So I finally got the photo of the day to show up on the market. That story is for another post. Anyway, Photo of the Day adds the ability to double click on the background to bring up the Wikipedia page about the photo of the day. Pretty slick!
Digital Drug – Binaural Beats Version 1.0 Released
So I jumped on the Media craze of digital drugs and released a small Binaural Beats program…. Check it out on the market here.
Photo of the Day 1.0 Released!
I just published Buy Levitra Online Photo of the Day on the Android Marketplace. Photo of the Day is a Live Wallpaper that sets your background to Wikipedia photo of the day. Its priced at $0.99.
Quick note, its not showing up in the market. Not sure what’s going on,but I’m taking a look.
-James
Just Released a New Version of Bus Stop Alarm
A new version of Bus Stop Generic Levitra Online Alarm is out on the Android Market. Lots of new features. Been using it for the past few days and I’m really happy with it.
-James
