HP Touchpad- CyanogenMod enters alpha 3.5 and MIUI enters beta

Good news for HP Touchpad owners,the modders are still working to port android ROMS to the HP’s sensational WebOS tablet, HP Touchpad. The popular android custom ROM CyanogenMod enters alpha 3.5. This version comes up with a lot of improvements in the User Interface and adds the ability to render 3D images. Thus the overall improvements will be in the appearance of UI and gaming experience. The... Continue reading

Head First Android development- Early Release Available for Download

Head First Android development is the newest arrival on the Head First Series of books published by O’Reilly Media . It has not been released yet, but the early release of the book is available for download at theO’Reilly Media siteand. The description of the book as seen in Amazon is as follows: Android devices are stealing market share from the iPhone with dramatic speed, and you have a killer... Continue reading

How to Learn Android Development/ Best books to learn android for beginners

I’m writing this post out of my personal experiences when I first tried to learn android development.Android programming is with Java. Therefore programming for android will be easier if you know java well. Eventhough programming language is Java, it runs on a custom Dalvik Virtual Machine than a JVM. Therefore knowing java will help you to headstart on syntax and common java libraries. If you... Continue reading

HTC HD2 Gets a Touch Capable ClockworkMod Recovery

HTC HD2- The most developed phone of all the time, gets another great modification. A senior developer in the XDA-Developer team released the touch enabled version of ClockworkMod Recovery. In CWR, which isinstalled on all devices, navigation was possible only through the use of volume up / down buttons. In this version, there are some touch buttons on the bottom of the screen for navigation and... Continue reading