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Android Market Payouts Total 2% of App Store’s $1B
by John Watkinson on Android /
During the WWDC keynote, a landmark statistic was revealed, namely that $1 Billion has been paid out to developers for their 70% cut on paid apps on the iTunes Store. This immediately led us to wonder how much money has been paid out to Android developers. The Android Market with support for paid apps became [...]
Keep ReadingBattle for Mars Upgrade: Multiplayer!
by John Watkinson on Android /
We’ve just released a free upgrade for Battle of Mars users on Android. We are excited to report that this version includes support for online multiplayer! You can take part in any number of multiplayer games simultaneously. Each game can have up to four players.
Multiplayer games have the shroud of war mode enabled. This means [...]
SlideScreen 1.1 Released
After a bit of an extended testing period, SlideScreen 1.1 has been released to the market. This is a pretty big release, so here’s the change list:
Facebook! You can now load your Facebook news stream and view entries in the built in reader. Thanks to FBConnect Android (http://code.google.com/p/fbconnect-android/) for the Faceook login support.
Google Reader upgrades:
Move [...]
Keep ReadingSlideScreen released!
A couple rewrites and 17 beta versions later, our home screen replacement SlideScreen is finally live in the Android Market! If you haven’t read about the app before check out the product page to see what it’s about, or read our original blog post about the ideas behind the design. The reviews have started coming [...]
Keep ReadingHome Screen Beta Signup Now Live
by Matt Hall on Uncategorized /
The beta signup page is now live for our home screen, refresh the product page or go straight to the form.
We’re going to take a relatively small group of testers to start, but hope to expand quickly from there – so don’t get discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re hoping to [...]
Intelligent Home Screen Demo and Beta
If you want to see our Intelligent Home Screen in action, we’re going to be demoing it at the NY Tech Meetup this Tuesday. It’s a big and exciting meeting (the last time I was there I heard Dan Bricklin speak) so hopefully we’ll find some like minded people there.
The other big news is we’ll also [...]
October Update
by Matt Hall on Android / LarvaLabs /
Sorry about the lack of posts this month, things got busy and the updates suffered. So I’ll try to get everything in this one update.
Android Market Sales
Since our last post on Android sales numbers the new market client in Android 1.6 has rolled out to most users (we think). The new client prominently features the [...]
Android Home Screen Design (with Video)
(If you want to skip the details below, you can go straight to the video and features list on the product page).
In previous posts we’ve talked about how, despite some growing pains, we thought Android looked very interesting as a phone platform in the medium to long term. That’s definitely starting to take shape with recent [...]
New iPhone App: CoverMosaic
I’m struggling not to use exclamation points here, because I think our latest app is pretty awesome. It’s called CoverMosaic and it recreates any photo using album art on your iPhone or iPod. I urge you to check out the video, it’s really the best way to see what the app can do. Also, I [...]
Keep ReadingInterview on the NewsHour
by Matt Hall on Android / LarvaLabs / Sidekick / iPhone /
Our company was interviewed as part of a larger piece on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. We didn’t get a ton of airtime, but it was definitely cool to be on the show. The only problem with the piece is they said I wrote all our apps, sorry about that John! For the record John [...]
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