The end of SlideScreen

by Matt Hall on Android /

Last week Google released an update to the Android Gmail app that removed our access to Gmail data, see here for more details. As of right now there appears to be no workaround as this is an intentional change to restrict access to the data. In general, the early hope on Android of open access [...]

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SVG Android Library and Google I/O

by Matt Hall on Android / Larva Labs /

We’re very excited to be in San Francisco today and tomorrow for Google I/O! We’ll be in the sandbox area to open source a big part of Androidify to help developers use vector graphics in their Android apps. Thanks to the Google Creative Lab for supporting the open sourcing of this code and for being [...]

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Gurk II, the sequel to the popular 8-bit RPG released!

by John Watkinson on Android /

In December, we ported our old RPG from J2ME to Android so the game could live on, on a new platform. We had a lot of positive responses from players who really enjoyed it, but they wanted more! So, we have obliged them with Gurk II, the sequel and a much larger and more complete [...]

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New app: PhotoWall Live Wallpaper

by Matt Hall on Android /

We just released our latest FREE Android app: PhotoWall Live Wallpaper! As the name suggests, it puts animated versions of your photos on the wallpaper of your phone: It automatically loads the latest photos from your phone gallery, and can also show photos from Facebook albums. We’re finding that it’s a really fun way to [...]

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Androidify!

by Matt Hall on Android /

If you’ve got an Android phone you really should check out Androidify – a project we did in partnership with the Google Creative Lab. It was released two days ago and has gone all the way to number 1 in the Android market! We had a lot of fun writing it with the Creative Lab [...]

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