Today Google announced the new version of the Android platform — Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It includes many new platform technologies and APIs. Some of the highlights include: Enhancements for game development, rich multimedia, support for front-facing camera, SIP/VOIP, and Near Field Communications (NFC), to let developers include new capabilities in their applications.
Alongside the new platform, Google released updates to the SDK Tools (r8), NDK, and ADT Plugin for Eclipse (8.0.0). For a complete overview of what’s new in the platform, see the Android 2.3 Platform Highlights.
I just published the latest Live Prints update including the custom background option and lots of new presets to play with. Enjoy!
I just published a short tutorial about how to set up, compile and test an AIR for Android project using just Eclipse and FDT without even opening the Flash IDE:
If you own an Android 2.2 (Froyo) device you must know that you can already start building (and testing!) your AIR 2.5 applications for Android. There’s more: if you are an FDT user like me you should be glad to know that is very easy to build and package our AIR4Android applications without even leaving our favorite tool!
Read the full tutorial here.
Live Prints is now live on the market! Look at them going around your screen attracted by suspicious activities! Go grab your copy now. 
Use the QR code, follow this link with your device or simply search for "live prints" on the market.
Any comment or feedback is appreciated!
I just uploaded a video showing Live Prints in action on my Nexus One. Enjoy!
I'm excited to show you some screenshots of my latest personal project: Live Prints, an Android Live Wallpaper. Simply chose a predefined look (or combine different backgrounds and prints) and watch the prints walking around your home screen and interact with your taps, icons and widgets...
I'll release soon Live Prints on the Android Market, so stay tuned for more news!
Live Prints: "Magic Map".
Live Prints: "Lonely Coyote".
Live Prints: "Scary Handprints".
On the Android developers blog was published a really interesting article about best practices for UI features and behavior patterns used to design and implement Twitter for Android:
Along with our regular updates of the Android platform, we like to build example applications that showcase best practices for UI features and behavior patterns, to help our 3rd party developers create even richer applications.
For example, the Twitter for Android application that we worked with Twitter to design gives you, the 3rd party developer, a working example of how you can customize and build an application that’s both fun and highly functional. This blog post is meant to showcase these patterns along with some recommended implementations as you start to develop your applications around them.
Read the full post here.
Serge Jespers just published Package Assistant Pro for Mac/Windows. Package Assistant Pro is an easy-to-use tool that help you with package native installers for AIR 2 and APK files for AIR on Android and eliminates the need to use the command line.
A few months ago I released an early version of my Package Assistant application. The application made it easier to compile native installers for AIR 2. While it was a lot easier to use compared to using the command line the application wasn’t very user friendly. A few weeks ago I started working on a brand new version and I think you will like it!
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