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Dex One Corp. Introduces New Android App for Local Business Search

Dex One Corporation is a marketing services company that helps "local businesses reach, win, and keep ready-to-buy customers" by connecting them. Dex One launched a new Android app that allows Android users to easily find and locate local businesses that are within their database.

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How does it feel to be an ADC2 $50,000 winner?

Florian Heft knows. Florian is the developer of Graviturn, a game that just won 2nd place and $50,000 in the Games: Arcade/Action category of Google’s ADC2 awards. Florian is also a 21 year old college student from Mühlacker, Germany, a small city of 26,000 people in the southwest portion of the country. He currently majors [...]

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Android Apps Alert 8: a closer look at a few ADC2 apps [Dec. 6]

Looking for the best Android apps? Good luck finding them on your own. But if you do stumble across apps people will love, let the world know. Androinica.com encourages users to tweet great apps with the #androidapps tag on Twitter, and we plan to incorporate that into our weekly notifications of new, updated, or recommended [...]

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Rolling Up Our Sleeves: Android Twitter App Showdown

At this point, saying that there are a lot of Twitter applications available in the Android Market might be a bit too repetitive for your tastes, and hey, we completely understand. There’s a lot of good stuff out there, but truth be told, there’s also a lot of apps that just don’t make the cut. [...]

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Review: A World of Photo (ADC2 “Entertainment” Co-winner)

In case you didn’t know, A World of Photo recently won one of the top prizes in the ADC2 “Entertainment” category. The concept is simple: You see a big map of the world, you spin your phone, a random user is picked in the direction your phone is pointing, and that user has to send [...]

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EXTRA! EXTRA! Associated Press’s “AP Mobile” is a great Android news app

Through cooperative agreements with some of the world’s largest newspapers and television networks, the Associated Press supplies much of the news items that you’re likely to come across in a given day. With its new AP Mobile Android app, those stories can now be piped directly to your Android device. AP Mobile delivers the hot-topic news [...]

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App Review: FlyScreen is cool, even if I don’t quite understand it

I don’t “get” FlyScreen. The app features widgets that appear on a lock screen replacement, and that is the cause of my confusion. It’s nice and all, but I could easily get all this information from an RSS reader, a Twitter client, or widgets on my homescreen. Why do I need FlyScreen? FlyScreen seems to be [...]

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App Review: Speed Forge 3D looks dynamic, plays decent

Speed Forge 3D has put Android game designers on notice: low-quality graphics simply won’t cut it. Few Android games have created a world that is as visually appealing as Speed Forge, which has full 3D graphics that look great. I can’t loft similar praise on the game play… yet. As advanced and smooth the graphics of [...]

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Sherpa hits Android Market, video review available

Sherpa is a marquee app on the T-Mobile myTouch3g, but it’s now available in the United States Android Market for other phones as well. T-Mobile G1 owners can also take a crack at Sherpa, which tracks and learns a user’s tendencies. The location-awareness app is equipped with an adaptive learning feature that uses likes and [...]

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App Review: CoPilot Live takes Android voice navigation in the right direction

Put on your seatbelt, check your mirrors, and launch CoPilot Live for Android? That’s not the traditional pre-driving routine, but it’s what I did when testing CoPilot Live, a new GPS application that offers turn-by-turn voice navigation for Android. The ALK-produced service creates Android GPS navigation systems on the fly thanks to massive map libraries [...]

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