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Android is the prime OS for developing applications in today for many reasons. The main reasons being that it is Open Source and Intuitive. In addition it uses Java for development, which is quite an easy language to get used to and develop in. This being said, a lot of you have great ideas for Android applications or applications in general but don't know where to start. This series will take you behind the scenes and introduce you to the software that will be your best friend while developing for android. On this journey we will start with a "Hello World" and move on from there to create a database driven application with a touch and scroll interface.

I am rather disturbed at how governments and companies are treating WikiLeaks. Apparently, the world learned nothing from Napster. Yes, what Napster did was illegal. And, maybe what WikiLeaks is doing is illegal. But the point is this: The debate is not whether WikiLeaks is going to exist or not. It will. And it doesn't matter what you try to do to stop it.

Previously in my tutorial of how-to disabling the ascending ringtone on your Samsung Galaxy S, I crashed my mobile OS by messing up with the Phone.apk file thus having force closes. The only option left with me was to push the file using ADB shell to get my phone working. Now The second and the more serious problem was that ADB Shell is  full command line supported and pushing file require you to master many commands. Any how I managed to restore my phone with the help of xda-developers but recently I found an application that helps to push files on your Android device using windows Send To option from the right context menu making the task a piece of cake even for un-experienced users.