Date: May 27, 2012
Place: Kiev

Master class for development under the mobile platform Android, and all who are interested in mobile development!

Date: 17-24 May 2012
Place: Online

Online training, consisting of two classes with homework

Coach: Andrew Dzunya

The world of IT is developing dynamically.

It would seem not so long ago we were sitting at a heavy computer stations. And do not even think about how to move from the place of this iron. Years passed, and the development of technology reached the point that now everyone can enjoy the programs on your palm. That is a personal phone or a tablet.

In March, the creators of the popular iOS photo app Instagram announced that an Android port was in development and would be released "very soon." One of Instagram's co-founders, Kevin Systrom, even claimed, "It's one of the most amazing Android apps you'll ever see and in some ways, it's better than our iPhone app."

Now Android owners can see if those lofty claims are indeed true as the Android Instagram app, which supports Android 2.2 and above, is now available to download for free via the Google Play store. Like the iOS version, the Android port allows its users a way to add a number of different filter effects to their smartphone and tablet pictures for both front and rear cameras.

Date: March 22, 2012
Place: DataArt Kyiv, Kudryavskyi descent, 14-E


Festive format - the beer-pizza!


Program:

1) "Create a game - the first steps" - Eugene Feldman (Playmo)

2) "The experience of participation in the project GameDev-mezhdunarodnіh competitions, as well as the development and promotion of games in the Android Market and alternative stores" - Michael Dvornikov (Kyiv GTUG Center)

Instagram's founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger told TechCrunch that an Android version of the application is coming "really soon" when talked to at SXSW earlier today. The app is definitely getting close to launch, despite the on-going rumours of whether or not the Android platform would get the app. On stage, Systrom pulled out a Galaxy Nexus running a prototype of the app and flashed it at the crowd. He then said:

"It's one of the most amazing Android apps you'll ever see and in some ways, it's better than our iPhone app."

The app is currently in private beta, and the team hopes "to have it out to people really soon." The Android app is apparently very fast, responsive and renders itself on larger screens just as effectively as it does for smaller screens. Functionality with Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks will also work just as well as the iPhone version.

Asus will be one of the first manufacturers to upgrade its devices to the upcoming Android 'Jelly Bean' 5.0 version, according to a report.

Benson Lin, an Asus corporate vice president, said last week that Asus's close relationship with Android lead Google meant that, "once they have Android 5.0 I think there will be a high possibility that we will be the first wave to offer the Jelly Bean update".

The quote, given to TechRadar, is notable not only for its description of Asus's ties with Google, but also serves as the first confirmation of Jelly Bean as the name for Android 5.0.

Date: March 3, 2012
Place: DataArt Kyiv, Kudryavskyi descent, 14-E


Program:

1) «Android in Barcelona" - Sergey Mityaev, editor gagadget.com, Party Mobile World Congress 2012

2) "Participation in the program Kiev dzhitagerov testing Google Maps Navigation Ukraine» - Vladimir Ivanov, Kyiv GTUG Center

The Google Apps version for Android devices hasn't added all of the versions of the desktop PC port. However, a newly released update to Google Apps for Android does offer users a number of new additions that will be welcome for people who want to work with others on the go.

The new update, which can be downloaded from the Android Market, adds support for online real time collaboration. Basically, it will allow Google Apps users to edit documents while others watch with the mobile version.

Who has tried out the new Chrome for Android beta? While we love it here at Android Community it’s still in beta and has a ways to go, not to mention be available on more devices. Today Chrome’s Senior VP Sundar Pichai had a sit down and was able to chat about Chrome and Chrome for Android with CNET, and had some interesting things to say regarding the browser and it’s future.

While Pichai had plenty to say regarding the Chrome Browser its the part for Android that had me interested. Speaking about the amount of downloads (almost 500,000), and how they plan to improve it in the future — talking about feature requests and more. Here is what he had to say:

Date: 17-19 February 2012
Place: Ciklum (19-20 fl.), BC "Horizon Park", st. Amoz, 12.


Think global. Hack local. 33 hours straight. Enjoy!
February 17-19 in New York, Paris, San Francisco, Berlin and more than 50 other cities around the world will be Global Android Dev Camp (GADC) - Global Android Hackathon, GTUG'ami-organized all over the world. In Kiev, GADC will take place in two stages:

Microsoft is continuing to release its software products for other mobile platforms. Today the company announced that its OneNote application now has a version for Android users. In December, Microsoft released a version that was optimized for the Apple iPad.

The new Android port can now be downloaded from the Android Market for free. The note taking software has a number of features in its Android version including to-do lists with clickable checkboxes, photo capturing with the Android device's camera, allowing users to sync up to their free SkyDrive account, offline access to notes, a way to sync up to OneNote on a PC or notebook via a WiFi connection and more.

Google has just released a new flavor of the Google Docs application for devices running under its Android operating system. Most of the enhancements packed with the new app release were meant for offline use.

The new application release arrives with better management of offline content, including the possibility to see what’s out of date, as well as with the ability to have all files viewable when offline.

Google Docs also comes with automatic syncing of offline content while on WiFi, as well as with the possibility to star and rename files while offline.

A survey by 11mark titled “IT in the Toilet” aims to show that people are so addicted to their mobile phones they’ll use them anywhere, including the bathroom. And iPhone owners are not shy of admitting it either.

In fact, a high number of iPhone users said they had used their smartphone in the jon - some 77 percent of the 1,000 respondents polled by 11mark.

Android and BlackBerry users are even more attached to their devices when it comes to bathroom usage - 87 and 84 percent, respectively.

Date: February 5, 2012
Place: Kiev, office DataArt


Kyiv GTUG Center in cooperation with CIS GTUG Project carried out two preparatory master class for Global Android DevCamp, which will be held February 17-19,

1) Android - an advanced mobile platform (introductory hangout-presentation) - Alex Korovyansky (Omsk GTUG) Hangout live

2) Osnovy programming for Android (presentation) - Vlad Lipsky (Kyiv GTUG Center)

Android users who would like to get a taste of the Windows 8 user interface on their Android-based mobile phones will soon be able to do so through an application called Skydroid.

Available from the guys over at the XDA-Developers forums, the app will bring the Windows 8 Metro UI on Android, though it appears that it won‘t be an exact replica of the interface. Instead, it will be only inspired by Windows 8.

The software will come with Dialer, SMS, Email, Calendar, People with IM and social, Player, Gallery, Camera, Browser, Notes, Stock + Currency converter, Alarm, News, File manager, Settings, Launcher, and more.

Date: February 8, 2012
Place: Kiev
Price: 200 Uah if paid before 01/23/2012, 300 Uah if paid before 01/30/2012, 400 Uah if paid before 07/02/2012.



For 4 hours, we will work intensively for laptops in groups. As before, start with 5% of theory. Become acquainted with the tool and its capabilities Robotium for automated testing of native Android applications. Further work will be the most practical, without departing from the topic.

To the meeting was productive, we will survey. The results of which will determine who will benefit from this workshop, and who is still a little brush up. What to do if you are not yet ready for such a practical intensives? You can read the articles on our site or in the news our mailing list. Likewise, you can visit our other training courses, where we teach more basic things or theoretical osnovam.Takaya classification will help participants meet to learn the greatest number of useful information! And we - most focus on the program we have prepared and fully explain the topic.

Date: February 4, 2012
Place: Chernihiv, st. Shevchenko, 99a, hotel "Pridesnyansky", a large conference hall
Cost: 100 Uah (payable at the master class) for students in the presence of student ID - 50 UAH.


On February 4, Chernigov Stanfy company will conduct a master class on the development of mobile applications for Android. Registration for the workshop.

"The Future of Android '- what we heard, analysts have long talks about it. The secret of success platform, apparently, is that for some reason it is more attractive to manufacturers of smartphones, than other operating systems. Google's Android platform has already taken significant market share. This proves the fact that most well-known manufacturers are actively using the Android platform for their devices.

Date: January 24, 2012
Place: Lviv, Sheptytsky street 26, the company GlobalLogic

Speaker: Denis Ermakov.

Theme: Scala on Android

Date: January 29, 2012
Place: Kiev

The format of the meeting - 95% and 5% of practice theory.

Visiting our workshop, you will:
- Be able to automate simple Android application;
- Get a test project with the recommended patterns of automation;
- Will find a great motivation to start automation in your project.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak may have waited in line for the release of new iPhones, but he says there are ways Android has leaped ahead of iPhone.

In an interview with Dan Lyons for the Daily Beast, the Woz lamented the limitations of Apple's smartphone. "My primary phone is the iPhone," the Woz said. "I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do."

Wozniak said he prefers the GPS navigation on Android phones and he also takes issue with the battery life on the iPhone ("it just started running through the battery so fast").

Date: January 21, 2012
Place: Donetsk, "Izba-chitalnya" (street Artema, 110)

- Vladimir Surkov, "On Teamcity»
- Dmitry Stropalov «Hudson / Jenkins in the annex to the Android-development"
- Fyodor Panasenko, "On testing in Java»

Sony Ericsson and AT&T today announced the LTE-powered Sony Xperia Ion, the first Sony-branded smartphone and one of the most powerful smartphones to grace the U.S. market.

The Xperia Ion has a 4.6-inch, 1280-by-720 screen and a 12-megapixel rear camera, making it (so far) the only 12-megapixel cameraphone offered by a U.S. carrier. It's powered by a 1.5-GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs Playstation games as well as Sony's music and video services. The device has 16GB of internal storage, but no memory card slot.

Only a few weeks ago, Google announced that the number of activated Android devices had reached 700,000 a day.

While that number was pretty impressive, the number of activations that Google registered for the Christmas weekend was far greater.

Google SVP of Mobile Andy Rubin announced on Twitter that the number of activations reached 3.7 million on Saturday and Sunday alone. “UPDATE: There were 3.7M Android devices activated on 12/24 and 12/25,” he tweeted.

If you own an Android-based smartphone made by LG and have been wondering if your phone will get the Android 4.0 (or Ice Cream Sandwich if you prefer) upgrade, wonder no longer. LG's official Facebook page has posted up a list of which phones will get the upgrade to the newest version of the mobile operating system from Google.

The phones themselves will get the Android 4.0 upgrade sometime in the second or third quarter of 2012, depending on the smartphone model. In the second quarter (April-June) LG says the Android 4.0 upgrade will be applied to "... the LG Optimus LTE, Prada phone by LG 3.0, the LG Optimus 2X, the LG Optimus Sol, the LG my Touch Q and the LG Eclipse."

The third quarter (July-September) is scheduled to bring the Android 4.0 update to these LG phones: " ... the LG Optimus 3D, the LG Optimus Black, the LG Optimus Big, the LG Optimus Q2 and the LG Optimus EX."

Intel’s collaboration with Google seems to have led to more than just an x86 port of the Android operating system, as the chip maker has recently confirmed that its upcoming Medfield SoC will include a series of hardware optimizations specifically designed for this mobile OS.

In a meeting with the Technology Review website, where Intel has presented to the publication a Medfield-running tablet and smartphone, the chip maker also talked a little bit about the SoC’s Android optimizations.

The most important of these cover Web browsing and a series of Android apps, but some dedicated imaging processing circuits were also thrown into the mix.

One week after its official launch “Grand Theft Auto III” goes on sale in the Android Market. Rockstar Games has just announced it has slashed 40% off the game’s original price.

All in all, fans of the franchise can now purchase the Android version for only $2.99, instead of paying the $4.99 full price.

The promotional offer is available through December 29, after which the title will go back to its original price.

Taking a page out of Amazon's playbook, Archos has unveiled an Android tablet priced at just $199.

Outfitted with Android Honeycomb 3.2, the new $199 (£127) Archos 70b is expected to reach consumers worldwide in January, missing the holidays but potentially serving up some competition to pricier tablets.

An enhanced version of the Archos 70 IT Gen 8 tablet, the 7-inch 70b offers a more powerful ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz processor and a higher-resolution 1024x600 pixel multitouch screen. The new tablet also boasts a 3D graphics accelerator, while RAM has been doubled to 512MB.

If you were wondering how well Android fares these days, you have nothing to worry about. The platform is selling very well, and the number of devices being activated each and every day is

increasing fast.

In fact, daily activations have just reached 700,000, at least this is what Andy Rubin, head of mobile operations at Google, notes in a recent tweet.

“There are now over 700,000 Android devices activated every day,” he notes, without offering further details.

The number of malicious Android apps mobile security firm Lookout has identified in less than six months has doubled to 1,000, according to a report released on Tuesday.

The vast majority of those dubious apps are found in third-party app stores and alternatives to the official Android Market, the company said.

"2011 has seen the emergence of a credible field of Android malware with a four-percent yearly likelihood of an Android user encountering malware, which was a significant increase compared to the beginning of the year. In the beginning of 2011 we measured a one-percent yearly likelihood," Lookout said in its report, entitled Malwarenomics: 2012 Mobile Malware Predictions.

Source: www.zdnet.co.uk

Dell's 7-inch Streak Android tablet has gone the way of its 5-inch tablet, which the PC giant killed off in August.

There was no announcement, just a brief note on Dell's website that it was "no longer available online".

Unlike the 5 inch model the larger device never made it to Australia, and ends Dell's line of Android-based tablets.

However, Dell may still yet deliver its 10-inch Windows 8 compatible tablet codenamed "Peju".

The Streak's death came as US-based Evercore Partners analyst Robert Cihra predicted that Amazon's low-cost Kindle Fire will "vaporize other 'for profit' Android tablet OEM roadmaps".