Back Up Your SMS Messages to a Gmail Label on Android
via LifeHacker (These peeps rock)
and the glorious link to the Google Code Project : android-sms
January, 2010
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Jan 10
Live Android – Live CD for your x86 PC
Want to give Google Android a try, but don’t feel like buying a T-Mobile G1/G2/G3? LiveAndroid lets you download a LiveCD disc image of the Google Android operating system. Just burn the image to a disc, stick it in a CD-ROM drive, and reboot your computer and you can check out Android without installing it or affecting any files on your PC.
Read more here at Live-Android at Google Code
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Jan 10
Developing Android Applications, Workshop One from O’Reilly
Awesome Learn Learn Learn!
1 hour and 25 minutes folks!
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Jan 10
JRuby for Android Released
JRuby for Android is an application that provides a JRuby scripting environment for Android, including an IRB shell, source code editor and script manager.
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Jan 10
CyanogenMod 5.0(Beta 2) for Nexus One
* Can be used with or without Google applications
* Latest 2.6.29.6 kernel which supports tethering, vpn, and other modules (cifs, nfs, aufs, fuse)
* Clean shudown/startup system
* NO APPS2SD. I’ve implemented a hack that will store the dalvik-cache of system apps in /cache, which saves you ~40MB on /data
* Built in USB tether
* Minor graphical enhancements and an excellent wallpaper by Prash
* ARM NEON optimizations (mostly to the pixelflinger library) which have not been included in the stock build yet
* Includes BusyBox, htop, nano, powertop, openvpn, and all engineering commandline utilities
* Multitouch browser using native API and code from Luke Hutchison. More MT integration coming.
* FLAC audio support from Kenny Root
* Phone enhancements from Cytown
* Perform zipalign-on-install of applications
* DeskClock tweaks- longer autosilence and “require unlock” option
* Compcache is available via Spare Parts, but I don’t recommend it
* Massive APN list
* Huge collection of ringtones and audio
* All available locales are included thanks to PsychoBoy
* Many other bugfixes and tweaks from AOSP contributorsAll source code is available at the CyanogenMod GitHub