One hundred thousand apps in Android Market

Yesterday it was announced in the twitter account of AndroidDev that Android Market had reached one hundred thousand apps.

The last 22 October, was the second birthday of the first Android terminal and few day later, Android Market reached this number. At the same time, Apple showed us the number of available apps in AppStore which is larger than Android Market, three hundred thousand in total. We can see that the difference is big yet. Anyway the quality of a store isn't measured by the number of apps but the quality of these.

Though the news is very important, we have to say there is a lot apps which are skin, themes and low quality apps. On the other hand we know the 60% of the apps in Android Market are free. Anyway, this number will have to grow so the more countries develop for Android the more Android will grow.

So this news isn't enough good because the problems, that this market have for users and developers, haven't dissapeared.

News translated: http://www.androidsis.com/superada-la-barrera-de-las-100-000-aplicaciones-en-el-android-market/

Control the pollution of your city with Air Visibility Monitoring

It's said that City of Mexico is one of the most polluted cities of the world, though it's true that it has a population of 9 million. Other cities where the air is dreadful are El Cairo, Pekin, Santigo, Los Angeles...In some of these cities, people wear masks to protect from pollution, but how can we control the pollution of our city???By reading the newspaper??

A Android application is going to help us with this problem, Air Visibility Monitoring. It works with the help of one photo. We make a photo of the sky (being careful with the trees, buildings, birds, planes, etc) and we send the photo to central servers that will analyze that photo with other data (GPS, clock, etc). In a moment, we will get the answer, moreover our data will be saved to use in the future to evaluate the environmental problems. So not only we are controling our city, but we are helping our planet.

News translated: http://www.androidsis.com/controla-la-contaminacion-de-tu-ciudad-con-air-visibility-monitoring/

Skype is available in Android

From now on we can download the Android version of Skype from Android Market, though, unfortunately it isn't compatible with some operating system version, only with 2.0 or higher.

It's known that we will be able to make a Voip call using WiFi and 3G, moreover we will be able to talk with our friends in a chat. We will also be able to synchronize our contacts using the Skype Desktop application. It's advised that we use the 3G with this application because it can cause problems if we use EDGE connection.

Android 2.1 is the lowest version to run Skype but it's also said that it is advisable to have a phone with a processor faster than 600Mhz (mostly so). If you have a limited data rate, you should be careful because 1 minute of call with Skype are about 1 Mb of data.

Unfortunately I neither have Android 2.1 nor have a data rate.

News translate: http://www.androidsis.com/skype-para-android-disponible-en-el-android-market/

A study shows that some Android applications send data without permission

A study made by engineers in Intel's labs, of the University of Penn State and the University of Duke, has shown that some Android applications get too many users data without permission.
They created a programm called TaintDroid to follow the volume of shared data in 30 of the most popular Google applications and available in Android Market. Despite that the application didn't ask the place where you were, two thirds of them shared the information on the location of the terminal. Others sent the id number or the phone number to their servers, even updated the location information each 30 seconds.
Half of these application were sending this information to advertising companies like AdMob. Many times, the users don't know his location is being sent without his permission.
A lot of mobile operating system control the access to the private information, but in the Android Market seem like these controls can be skipped easily.
A better review of the applications and some extra control would help much to the Android Market which ,if we compare it with other, is very poor, and which Google should pay more attention.
Despite this news, I don't change my HTC Tattoo.

News translated: http://www.androidsis.com/un-estudio-muestra-que-algunas-aplicaciones-de-android-envian-datos-sin-consentimiento/

Gameloft set new conditions to sales of their games

Some days ago, we were happy because a great game enterprise as Gameloft launched a tens of games for Android with a high quality technical and graphical. But now, we are discovering some data about these that make us less happy.
Let's go starting.
The games can be bought only from the Gameloft web and not from Android Market, moreover his price has been increased 2 dollars since they were announced. But this don't finish here, the worst come now. The game, which we buy, can be installed once and on one terminal only. If, for any reason, we have to erase our memory card or the smartphone, we would lose the game and we couldn't install again, so we would have to buy the game again. Because of this, we neither can install the game in other terminals nor have a backup in case memory phone is erased.
It's logic that anyone can sell their games as he wants, but this way selling isn't the best.

News translated http://www.androidsis.com/gameloft-pone-condiciones-a-la-venta-de-sus-juegos/

Gameloft develop 10 games for Android

The arrival of games with some graphic quality to Android is a reality. Gameloft announced in May the launching of 10 games for the various existing mobile platforms, including Android. The games, which we can find, are Assassin's Creed, Real Football 2010, Modern Combat...
Gonzague de Vallois said their propose had always been to offer the best experience of game for each device, moreover, they were very happy with the arrival of SmartPhones, which permit the creation of high quality games, because they could offer the consumers a serie of games that combine 3d graphics with an intesive system game.
This 3d high quality games are created especially for each device. For example, Tom Clancy's and Asphalt 5 can use the acceleration device to drive cars and pilot airplane.
Finally, the press release said at least in the beginning Xperia X10, HTC Desire, Motorola Droid, Motorola Motoroi and Nexus One will be the only mobiles compatible with these games. We don't know if they will be compatible with other mobiles.

News translated http://www.androidsis.com/gameloft-lanza-10-juegos-para-android/

Electronics Arts bet on Android

Electronics Arst, leader in developing and distribution of videogames for all existing platforms , has realized the great rise of Android. Games like FIFA, NBA Live, Sims, Risk are some of the titles that already are available to other mobile phones and maybe soon we'll see them in Android.
In a recently conference celebrated, Dan Brown (financial director of EA) confirmed his commitment with Android and recognized that his company are betting on Android as leader of the sector in 2014. Android could have the 25% of the market and Apple the 11% only.
The iPhone generated round 200 millions of earnings to EA but Eric Brown is convinced that Apple won't dominate the market as now but Android will. But for this Android should have something so big as AppStore. We hope that Google work more with his Android Market.

News translated http://www.androidsis.com/electronic-art-tambien-apostara-por-android/

Waze, social software gps navigation

Waze for Androd is a GPS navigation software, with a great difference, the maps are done by the users, how does this work?? The application is going to recollecting the information that it recive by GPS and the data, which we introduce (street's name, photos...), will be uploaded to a server where they will be treated to create a map.
When the map is growing, that information can be used by others users of the application. Waze feeds of all this information. This is done automatically and the user has to execute the application only and the rest is automatic.
As the information is sent all the time, for example, one traffic jam can be detected. As your speed decreases, this data is recollected by the servers of the application, which will show a red line in the screen so that others users can see the traffic jam.
This has a great problem. If you are the first to drive on a road, you won't have maps of this place, and you will be the first to send the data.

News translate http://www.androidsis.com/waze-software-social-de-navegacion-gps/

One million of persons download Skyfire for Android

In the Android Market, we can choose from several Web browsers if we don't like the default browser. We have Opera, Skyfare, Dolphin HD and soon Mozilla Firefox. Though Chrome Browser developed by Google is really good, it is known that many users have dispensed to this browser.
The company, which has developed Skyfare, has announced that there are already one million of person who have downloaded Skyfare. Due to this number, it was announced that other mobile, like Samsung Galaxy S, Droid X or HTC incredible, will have this Browser available.
This Browser isn't normal as it throw the web pages in a external server and not in the terminal, this allow us get a full navigation though the terminal doesn't support flash. This improvement has been very important as when this Browser was released, hardly none of the others could execute flash.
We'll have to see if so many users will download Skyfare, now that almost all terminals can execute Flash 10.1.

News translate http://www.androidsis.com/skyfire-para-android-llega-al-millon-de-descargas/

Re-Inauguration

Today, i've had a great idea!!!! Starting today the text of this blog will be written in English.

Long time, i had the illusion of learning English but I never found time or I preferred to be lying in the bed. But today NO!!! I've decided to get serious and I'll start with this blog.

But writing in Englisn isn't the only change. Also the news will be different. Before all news talked about free software, but for now and beyond I'll write about Android!!!

I'll look for news in Internet and the most interesting news will be translated.

I hope you enjoy and if you see some mistake in my English, tell me!!!!