Recently, I decided to look around to see what options we developers have for game development on Android. The OS is still young, but there are already viable game engines popping up. Here are 2 that I found and played with that we should keep our eyes on: Rokon Rokon is an interesting open source 2D...

App developer Binary Fusion recently released a new app for Android devices that attempts to help keep drivers focused on the road. The app works by auto-responding to texts with a custom message and silencing phone and text notification sounds. The app is designed with a very simple and easy-to-use...

According to market intelligence site asymco.com, the number of apps downloaded from the Apple App Store will soon pass the number of songs downloaded from iTunes. They base this on recent data that shows that app downloads reached the same total in just over 2 years that the iTunes music store took...

Amid reports of the significant growth of the Android OS, Apple has released a statement about some new App Store review guidelines and news on relaxed app development restrictions. Now, one may have nothing to do with the other, but it shows that Apple believes they need to allow some changes to their...

Motorola takes another swing at Apple via the New York Times. This isn’t the first time in recent months they’ve put out a full-page ad attack, though. Either way, it’s pretty funny. I really thought that once Android devices supported full Flash, that Apple would come off their stance...

The Android Market has its issues, and one of them is that there are currently very few good games out there. One thing that’s very apparent is that most of the big publishers have none of their games out there yet. The question is, will they ever? Without being required to deliver their games...

App Name: Hurricane Hub Developer: News-Press Media Group Platform: Android Genre: Application – Educational # of downloads (at review time): 5,000 – 10,000 Market Rating (at review time): Price: FREE AppSmasher Score:   (3.0 out of 5.0) The good: provides plenty of info in an easy-to-use...

I noticed a problem today with my Android Emulator. When testing an application in the Android Virtual Device, I pulled up the keyboard and saw that the keys were in English, but the auto-complete text and keyboard switch button (bottom left) had Chinese characters. I created a new device in the AVD...

Aurora Feint, a high-profile mobile game developer, announced recently that they will be releasing a new multiplayer development kit named PlayTime. This kit will allow game developers to easily create games that allow for mulitple players to play across iOS and Android devices in real-time. Aurora Feint...