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The question is: How do I reference the Android default icons? In XML this would be: android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_info_details

android.R.drawable.ic_menu_info_details

Current Instapaper and former Tumblr developer Marco Arment wonders out loud if Google Android phones can ever achieve the levels of usability and polish Apple’s iPhone has arguably had since day one

Android will continue to exhibit what Google does best: great low-level engineering and tight integration with Google’s other services. But it’s never going to be Apple-like in user experience, polish, or design. Attention to detail, like most facets of truly good design, can’t be (and never is) added later. It’s an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture

Opens vcf attachments in emails and let user create a contact

The workspace in a viewgroup which creates virtual views (or screens). The user is able to navigate between screens by swiping the screen with his finger.

This is a compact and straightforward library for parsing SVG files and rendering them in an Android Canvas. By using vector art, the pain of supporting various screen sizes and densities in Android can be reduced. This was the library used to render the artwork and the interface of Androidify. The project also includes a Live Wallpaper app extracted from Androidify. The app shows off the SVG library, and demonstrates the rendering pipeline used to draw the Androids.

An open source project to provide push notification support for Android -- a xmpp based notification server and a client tool kit. This project is currently being hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/androidpn/.

Getting Started Welcome to Training for Android developers. Here you'll find sets of lessons within classes that describe how to accomplish a specific task with code samples you can re-use in your app. Classes are organized into several groups you can see at the top-level of the left navigation. This first group, Getting Started, teaches you the bare essentials for Android app development. If you're a new Android app developer, you should complete each of these classes in order:

上图是AndroLib.com统计的Android Market应用数量图表，可以看到截至7月1日应用数量已经超过9万大关，按照这个增速计算在7月里Android Market应用数量肯定会突破10万大关。要知道一年前这个数量还不到1万。

We compared these findings with that of our tests of Apple's mobile Safari browser on the iPhone 4. The results show that the Android device delivers significantly faster JavaScript execution than the iPhone, scoring over three times better on V8 and almost twice as fast on SunSpider

你可以在 EyE-Sight 站点了解到更多关于这一功能的消息，也可以通过下面的视频来了解更多细节。 继续观看视频：

Most Android Smartphones released this year will receive the Android 2.2 Froyo. If you have a 2009 HTC Magic, then you might receive the Android 2.2 Froyo as well. France’s 2nd largest largest mobile carrier SFR officially announced the Magic will be receiving the Froyo update.

T-Mobile USA said the myTouch 3G, basically the same thing as a HTC Magic would be updated with Froyo a bit later this year. So it looks like the old Magic will be receiving the new Google OS in the next few months.