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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 [...]
Nerd Alert
by Matt Hall on Nerd Alert /
This post starts a new category on the blog which will contain all the super nerdy details of what we’re working on. We’ve got a bunch of code and tips built up that we haven’t really had a place to post before, so this will be where they go. These posts will be hidden from [...]
Keep ReadingAndroid 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 [...]
Keep ReadingAndroid Market Sales, Are Those Tears or is it Raining in Here?
by Matt Hall on Android / iPhone /
There’s been a lot of speculation lately about the size of the Apple App Store, most recently based on some numbers from AdMob which are summarized over at GigaOM. They came to the conclusion that the app store is worth $200M monthly, whereas the Android market is worth a paltry $5M. As sad as that [...]
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