Droid Sector

Launcher Pro have a very customizable dock, you can basically place there anything you want: apps, bookmarks, playlists, even FourSquare venues!

Recent versions have up to 3 scrollable docks. One simple idea of how you can use it:

The 5-10 favorite contacts now easily accessible from any home screen.
Tapping on a contact photo will invoke the QuickContact menu:

Related links:

• Adobe Flash showcase for mobile – m.flash.com
• Kongregate Games – m.kongregate.com

To get full screen mode on the Nexus One, tap and hold until you get a semi-transparent bar with two buttons. Tap first button to enter full screen mode.

The idea of mSpot is simple: select music folders or iTunes library to sync, and uploader will store your music in a cloud. Now you can listen to your music on mSpot web page or on Android (2.1+) client.

This is how playlist page looks:

The first two is smart playlists. Quick-List contains selected albums, artists or songs. You can quickly add current track to quick-list by tapping on big Q button. On My Phone playlist simple lists all track cached on your SD card – very convenient if you offline.
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Let’s create a simple Automator app to make installing apk files a little easier.

• Download the Android SDK for Mac and extract to Android folder in your home directory.
• Launch Automator and create a new application.
• Add action “Run Shell Script” with sh shell.
• Paste this command: ~/Android/android-sdk-mac/tools/adb install -r “$1″
• Add another two actions shown below if you want a feedback from the script.
• Save application to the Applications folder.
• Associate apk files with your new application.

Now you can install Android apps by double clicking on apk files.

The RockPlayer allows Android phones to playback media formats not supported currently by system. Tried a few media files (wmv, avi) and it works good. The funny thing is, it look very much like stock player in Samsung Galaxy S.

Update: RockPlayer now available on Android Market, go to AppBrain or Cyrket to download it.

Support Types
Version ARM V7： Google Nexus One, HTC Desire Incredible EVO, Moto Milestone XT800, Droid Series, Acer Liquid, Samsung Galaxy S, Sony Ericsson X10, Dell Thunder Streak, LG LU2300, etc.
Version ARM V6 VFP： Samsung SHW-M100S GT-i5700, HTC Legend, etc.
Version ARM V6： All models left running Android support ARMv6 instruction set.

Old beta version:

• http://www.mediafire.com/?2ly3dgjytnd
• http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3XX6PZKH

Web site: rockplayer.freecoder.org

Dolphin Browser:

• Go to settings and select User Agent
• Select Desktop.

Stock Browser:

• Open your Browser and type about:debug and press Go. The browser will not show anything, but this is normal
• Go to settings and scroll to the bottom and select UAString (User Agent)
• Select Desktop.

Complex web pages with a lot of flash ads make scrolling very choppy. To make Flash content load only after you click on it, go to the settings, tap Enable plug-ins and select On demand.

Just click this link in you Android browser: www.adobe.com/go/getfp10android

As you may see, our app is in a good company:

www.lgim2.com

We’ve seen many upcoming Android tablets, but apps from the Market were never showcased. Some people tend to think that the apps will look bad in high resolution, so I’ve decided to check it. Below go the screenshots of apps running on Android 1.6 x86 in VirtualBox. Screen resolution was set to 1024×768.

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