Google Music found in Market

While strolling through the /res folder of the new 3.3.11 version of the Market, I found a slew of orange drawables that are going to be used in the Music section of the market soon. All the images and layouts are there and ready.

Calling all ROM Devs and Themers

Theme Tester

This is an app that can be used as a tool for ROM Developers and Themers of all kinds. This is only a free version and a "Pro/Donate" version is on its way.


This app is divided into 3 tabs:
Form Widgets - Various form widgets such as buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc.

Dialogs - Progress dialogs and Alert dialogs

App Icons - *Will be available in the "Pro/Donate" version* Pulls the icons from the system to show what all app icons have been changed.


Uses:
This app can be used by ROM Developers and Themers to showcase all the UI elements that they have changed and not changed.

Developers can use this app to test their themes before releasing them to the public.

Developers can also use this app in their app screenshots.


I will be posting the ic_launcher drawables so that Themers can alter the Icon to match  their themes.

This app is compatible with all platforms 2.2 and up (including 4.0). If you want me to include 2.1, let me know. I personally don't know of any 2.1 ROMs running around still, but I will add support for it if you ask nicely :P

Google/Samsung Event Starting Now!!!

http://www.youtube.com/android

All Day LiveBlog

All day LiveBlog via Android Central. They will be covering both the Motorola Event in NYC (happening right now) and the Google/Samsung event tonight (see previous post for times in the US). Here's the link to join in:

http://www.androidcentral.com/perpetual-liveblog

ICS almost upon us

With the Google/Samsung ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) event tomorrow night for the US, what are you most excited about? A new Nexus (developer) phone? Just Ice Cream Sandwich alone?  What are you app developers looking forward to most? The idea that the Android OS will finally be unified under one set of APIs? Better handling of varying screen sizes? Let me know what you guys are all hoping to see tomorrow night during the Google/Samsung event.

Here's a schedule for what time the event will be sweeping across the US tomorrow courtesy of Android Central:

North America

ADT (Halifax)	10:30 p.m. Tuesday
EDT (eastern daylight time)	9:30 p.m. Tuesday
EST (George Town)	8:30 p.m. Tuesday
CDT (central daylight time)	8:30 p.m. Tuesday
MDT (mountain daylight time)	7:30 p.m. Tuesday
MST (mountain standard time)	6:30 p.m. Tuesday
PDT (pacific daylight time)	6:30 p.m. Tuesday
AKDT (Alaska daylight time)	5:30 p.m. Tuesday
HAST (Hawaii-Aleutian standard time)	3:30 p.m. Tuesday

Google+ update

The leaked Google+ version 2.0 update brings some pretty nice enhancements, especially to honeycomb. There are two new widgets, one of which you can resize. It also utilizes the action bar and seems more suited to honeycomb (and most likely ICS). Here are some screenshots I took from my Transformer.

Android Developers preparing for ICS Video

Here is a snap shot of the YouTube home page showing me that Android ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) Launch is scheduled. It doesn't give a date for when it is scheduled, but we know that they are preparing to upload. I can't wait!!!