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Android 2.2 comes to Evo 4G next week TG Daily The feature-laden update to Google's Android operating system is finally getting ready to make its way to Sprint's Evo 4G phone, becoming the second device ... HTC gets official with Android 2.2 roll out in Europe this weekend HTC Evo 4G to Get Android 2.2 August 3 Sprint's HTC EVO 4G to Get Android 2.2 Next Week  - -

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That Cute Android Wallpaper May Be Sending Your Data to China LinuxInsider.com Delivering the personal information of millions of Android users to a mysterious website, that's what. The App Genome Project has found that a large ... Google Android apps 'collecting personal data' Google Disables Android Apps Caught Collecting Personal Data 'Suspicious' Android wallpaper app nabs user data  - -

Motorola profits top estimates thanks to Android - Android Community (blog)

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Motorola profits top estimates thanks to Android Android Community (blog) Motorola posted profits that beat Wall Street estimates thanks in large part to its line of popular Android phones. Motorola posted profits per share, ... Motorola profit beats estimates, powered by Android Motorola Android Strategy Pays Off as Smartphone Sales Rise The Droid 2 manual leak ,features Android 2.2  - -

Is this a prototype of the Samsung tablet?

Feast your eyes on the photo above, in what purportedly is a prototype of an Android tablet device from Samsung. Posted on Twitpic, the only info given is that it's seven inches, and that looks about right. There's no way of knowing how recent the picture is, and you really can't see much more than the black slab. But the translated tweets from @metabaron appear to say it's not the final design, will have a phone radio and camera, no physical buttons and will be released this year. [Twitter via notebookitalia.it and GadgetMix]

Posted originally at Android Central

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It's official -- Evo to get Froyo starting Tuesday, August 3

Sprint has just announced what we all were hoping for -- the Evo 4G will be getting Froyo starting August 3, making Sprint the first carrier to upgrade their devices to Android 2.2.  Hit our story HERE to see what's included with the update.  Sprint says that the OTA will roll out in stages, but they will be providing a manual download link for those of us who just can't wait.  (That's you and I )  Yes, we'll have a nice set of simplified instructions to make it as easy as possible, just as soon as we get the link and the method.  Check out the source link to see Sprint's official announcement.  [Sprint]

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Security firm details privacy concerns; developer tells us its side of the story

Let's recap: Late Wednesday night (or early Thursday morning), we reported on a story published at Mobile Beat that came out of the Black Hat online security conference. At the conference, Kevin MaHaffey, CTO at mobile security firm Lookout, told of an app from developer "jackeey,wallpaper," which basically is a portal for downloading wallpapers for your Android phone. The story told the tale of "a questionable Android mobile wallpaper app that collects your personal data and sends it to a mysterious site in China, (and) has been downloaded millions of times."

We've been in contact with Lookout -- which reiterates that the apps, while suspect, aren't necessarily malicious. We've also have a response from the developer in question. Updates from both, after the break.

Posted originally at Android Central

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Re: Need DroidX for testing

Even better, the application is in the Android market, under Mestream.
The problems people are seeing is that they can't Stream video, or
Watch. Let me know if you download it, and then if I can pass along a
couple of test cases. Thanks.

Regards,

-nick-

Re: App testing on Samsung Moment

The model number is: SPH-M900

Does that work?

Regards,

-nick-

Re: [chicago-androids] Need DroidX for testing

Re: [chicago-androids] Re: App testing on Samsung Moment

Licensing Service Technology Highlights

We’ve just announced the introduction of a licensing server for Android Market. This should address one of the concerns we’ve heard repeatedly from the Android developer community.

The impact and intent, as outlined in the announcement, are straightforward. If you want to enable your app to use the licensing server, there’s no substitute for reading the authoritative documentation: Licensing Your Applications. Here are some technical highlights.

• This capability has been in the Android Market client app since 1.5, so you don’t have to be running the latest Android flavor to use it.

• It’s secure, based on a public/private key pair. Your requests to the server are signed with the public key and the responses from the server with the private key. There’s one key pair per publisher account.

• Your app doesn’t talk directly to the licensing server; it IPCs to the Android Market client, which in turn takes care of talking to the server.

• There’s a substantial tool-set that will ship with the SDK, the License Verification Library (LVL). It provides straightforward entry points for querying the server and handling results. Also, it includes modules that you can use to implement certain licensing policies that we expect to be popular.

• LVL is provided in source form as an Android Library project. It also comes with a testing framework.

• There’s a Web UI on the publisher-facing part of the Market’s Web site for key management; it includes setup for production and testing.

• Obviously, you can’t call out to the server when the device is off-network. In this situation you have to decide what to do; one option is to cache licensing status, and LVL includes prebuilt modules to support that.

We think this is a major improvement over the copy-protection option we’ve offered up to this point, and look forward to feedback from developers.

Licensing Service For Android Applications

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. — Tim Bray]

In my conversations with Android developers, I often hear that you’d like better protection against unauthorized use of your applications. So today, I’m pleased to announce the release of a licensing service for applications in Android Market.

This simple and free service provides a secure mechanism to manage access to all Android Market paid applications targeting Android 1.5 or higher. At run time, with the inclusion of a set of libraries provided by us, your application can query the Android Market licensing server to determine the license status of your users. It returns information on whether your users are authorized to use the app based on stored sales records.

This licensing service operating real time over the network provides more flexibility in choosing license-enforcement strategies, and a more secure approach in protecting your applications from unauthorized use, than copy protection.

The licensing service is available now; our plan is for it to replace the current Android Market copy-protection mechanism over the next few months. I encourage you to check out the Licensing Your Applications section of our Developer Guide and the Android Market Help Center to learn how you can take advantage of this new service immediately.

Adjustment to Market Legals

Please note that we have updated the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement (DDA). This is in preparation for some work we’re doing on introducing new payment options, which we think developers will like.

In the spirit of transparency, we wanted to highlight the changes:

• In Section 13.1, “authorized carriers” have been added as an indemnified party.

• Section 13.2 is new in its entirety, covering indemnity for payment processors for claims related to tax accrual.

These new terms apply immediately to anyone joining Android Market as a new publisher. Existing publishers have been notified of this change via email; they have up to 30 days to sign into the Android Market developer console to accept the new terms.

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