All that is fun about android

Ahead of a pretty busy summer, with Men In Black 3 and sequels to the Asphalt and N.O.V.A franchises imminent, developers Gameloft have released a couple of teases for the mobile gaming community.

First up is a simple image of Asphalt 7: Heat, which might be heading into Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit territory with the rumored addition of police chases to the most popular car racing game series on Android. It was reportedly shown on stage during the Galaxy S III announcement, though I can’t find any reference of this in any of the live-blogs I followed. Considering the connection with the S3 announcement, we could see the game launch with the phone, and maybe even come pre-loaded or for free or on discount in the Samsung App Store (this being more of my gut feeling than any inside talk).

Moving on to Men In Black 3, the game is known to launch on the same day as the movie, i.e., May 25th. Gameloft have released this little video which gives us a sneak peek to the gameplay.

How many of you are looking forward to these games? Unless the reviews are horrible, I’m definitely going to get my hands on Asphalt 7, though I can’t say the same of M.I.B.

[via Android Community (M.I.B. 3 & Asphalt 7: Heat)]

Well, that was fast. About two weeks ago, Facebook updated their Android app to version 1.9 which brought along, amongst other things, new Camera and Messenger shortcuts in the app drawer. While it was understandable why did that, understandably a lot of people were annoyed to find their app list further congested (including me).

Edgar had even posted last weekend of a little hack that allows you to get rid of those shortcuts, but thankfully enough, you no longer have to put any effort in to achieve that goal. In a minor update, Facebook have booted those shortcuts by default.

A little question at the end of all this: how many of you found those shortcuts helpful? And are you generally OK with an app having multiple entries in the app drawer, if it were to provide genuine advantages?

Thanks, Aaron!

[Google Play]

Well, that was fast. About two weeks ago, Facebook updated their Android app to version 1.9 which brought along, amongst other things, new Camera and Messenger shortcuts in the app drawer. While it was understandable why did that, understandably a lot of people were annoyed to find their app list further congested (including me).

Edgar had even posted last weekend of a little hack that allows you to get rid of those shortcuts, but thankfully enough, you no longer have to put any effort in to achieve that goal. In a minor update, Facebook have booted those shortcuts by default.

A little question at the end of all this: how many of you found those shortcuts helpful? And are you generally OK with an app having multiple entries in the app drawer, if it were to provide genuine advantages?

Thanks, Aaron!

[Google Play]

Well, that was fast. About two weeks ago, Facebook updated their Android app to version 1.9 which brought along, amongst other things, new Camera and Messenger shortcuts in the app drawer. While it was understandable why did that, understandably a lot of people were annoyed to find their app list further congested (including me).

Edgar had even posted last weekend of a little hack that allows you to get rid of those shortcuts, but thankfully enough, you no longer have to put any effort in to achieve that goal. In a minor update, Facebook have booted those shortcuts by default.

A little question at the end of all this: how many of you found those shortcuts helpful? And are you generally OK with an app having multiple entries in the app drawer, if it were to provide genuine advantages?

Thanks, Aaron!

[Google Play]

Earlier today we learned of a soak test for a new Motorola DROID 3 software update, and less than 12 hours later Verizon has posted the official changelog. While large in size, the 224MB update isn’t a bump up in OS version to Android 4.0. Instead it will address a plethora of bugs while updating bloatware apps and providing other minor enhancements such as security patches. With the update notes live on Verizon’s support site, it’s only a matter of time before the general userbase will receive the new software.

[via DroidLife]