How It works?

As we know Google Nexus S has got built in NFC chip to be incorporated for mobile payments, and your phone going to be the next generation credit and debit cards. Just tap your phone which has got Google wallet application installed,Your phone sends payment, and, at some merchants, offers and loyalty information.

Where Google Wallet works?

Just similar to your credit, debit cards you might check for the following logos, on stores, hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, multiplexes etc.,It works at all the places that are NFC capable and provide Master card pay pass.Presently, In US, if you see the following logos any where you can shop and pay the bills with your phone wallet, as it expands as a service, and India is the better place to market we’ll expect this service very soon and presently.Google will also link your Google Wallet with Offers so that you can make the best of any offers by just showing the Barcode or by using the App at any of the Single Tap Merchants. You can find the complete list of Merchants who are now using the Google Wallet Payment system over here.

Watch Google wallet product launch video by Google

HTC-Wildfire-S

HTC India officially launched Wildfire S in India on 27th of this month. Company has priced this smart phone at 14000 INR.It is now available for purchase on all online stores. You can purchase directly from HTC here. As discussed in the previous entries “Reliance Launched HTC wildfire in India” Wildfire S has come up with great features and having a nice look to it.

HTC Wildfire S is the third device of the series of Android devices unveiled at Mobile World Congress. Other devices which are still waiting to be released are HTC Chacha, Salsa and Flyer

Find more information on HTC wildfire S here.

One of the famous blogging platforms, Blogger get’s in to android market. From now on you can create, edit and publish posts from your phone with ease. All that you need to do is, install new Official Android Blogger App on your android device.This is really a good news for all android folks who would love to blog.It’s very simple, neat and works perfectly. Try it out now by downloading from here. Android market.

Features

1. Switch between Google Accounts as in any other Google Android App
2. Publish posts or save drafts
3. Upload photos from your android gallery, or take one on the fly with the mobile camera and post it to blogger.
4. Share your location with your post.
5. Share your Gallery images easily to Blogger. ( A blogger option will be added to your Share Menu)
6. View and Edit saved Drafts/ Published Posts made from the mobile app(not the ones that already exist).

you can find more details about Blogger App for android here Blogger Buzz Post.

1. 1. Let’s Golf! 2
2. 2. Fishing Kings
3. 3. Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front
4. 4. Spider-Man: Total Mayhem
5. 5. GT Racing: Motor Academy
6. 6. Actual Football 2011
7. 7. Gangstar: Miami Vindication
8. 8. Splinter Cell: Conviction
9. 9. Shrek Kart
10. 10. The Oregon Trail

Highlights

1. Unlimited blazing fast music identification
2. Sing & Hum recognition
3. Voice-directed music search
4. In-app lyrics

[via SoundHound]

Features in detail Specifications:

• Android 2.1 Éclair
• Full Touch Screen
• 3.2 MP Auto Focus Camera
• Voice Assisted GPS Navigation
• Android Market
• WiFi
• Accelerator Sensor
• HSDPA 7.2Mbps
• HSUPA 5.6Mbps
• Form : Full Touch
• Band : GSM 900&1800MHz – WCDMA 900/2100MHz
• Weight : 105gms
• Dimensions : 106.8mm x 59.2mm x 14.0mm
• Display : 62K TFT, (320*240 pixels) 7.1cms Touch Screen
• Version : 2.1 Éclair
• HSUPA : 5.76Mbps
• HSDPA : 7.2 Mbps
• Camera : 3.2MP, Auto-Focus Camera
• Audio Player : Yes
• GPS : Yes
• WiFi : Yes
• Video Streaming : Yes
• Video Player : Yes
• Video Recorder : Yes
• GPRS/WAP/MMS : Yes
• Processor : 600 MHz
• Bluetooth 2.1
• SWYPE
• Internal Memory : 150MB
• Expandable Memory : Up-to 32GB
• Battery Type : 1280 mAh Li-ion Battery
• Talk Time : Up-to 4 hours*
• Standby Time : Up-to 10 days*

[via Micromax]

• Android
  • Improved support for Android keyboards, both hardware and on-screen
  • New Android-style menus
  • Fixed a bug in opening links from other apps
  • Support for uploading files
  • “Save as PDF” command in the site menu
  • Fixed rendering of Arabic and Farsi text (on devices with Arabic/Farsi fonts installed)
• Firefox Sync
  • New UI for simpler setup
  • Support for custom Firefox Sync servers
• Video
  • Full-screen open video
  • Improved audio performance
• User interface
  • Copy/paste in URL bar
  • Search engines appear in the awe some screen as you type
  • Browse recommended add-ons through the add-on manager
• For developers
  • local Storage API
  • orientation events (new on Android)
• Support
  • Crash reporting for crashes in web content

[Relese notes via Mozilla]

Detailed Features

U8300 is a QWERTY Android phone equipped with Social Networking sites such as Facebook and twitter etc., it comes with 3.2 mega pixel camera. while U8500 is a touch screen mobile equipped with Wi-Fi technology.

SETTING UP ANDROID DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT WITH ECLIPSE

Step1: Install Eclipse IDE.

Step2: Android SDK

Download the Android SDK from the Android homepage under Android SDK download . The download contains a zip file which you can extract to any place in your file system, e.g. I placed it under “C:android-sdk-windows” .

Step3: Use the Eclipse update manager to install all available plugins for the Android Development Tools (ADT) from the URL https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ .

Step3: Configuration

In Eclipse open the Preferences dialog via Windows -> Preferences. Select Android and maintain the installation path of the Android SDK.

Step4: Select now Window -> Android SDK and AVD Manager from the menu.

Step5: Select available packages and select the latest version of the SDK.

Press “Install selected” and confirm the license for all package.

After the installation restart Eclipse.

Step6: Device

You need to define a device which can be used for emulation. Press the device manager button, press “New” and maintain the following.

Press “Create AVD“.This will create the device. To test if you setup is correct, Select your device and press “Start“.

After (a long time) your device should be started.

To test, whether your device is correctly working or not, search some thing in the Google search if will show results in the Emulator.

ANDROID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Creating First Android Project:

Step1: Select File -> New -> Other -> Android -> Android Project and create the Android project “TemperatureConverter” Maintain the following.

Press “Finish“. This should create the following directory structure.

Step2:”R.java” is a generated class which contains the text and the UI elements.

The Android SDK allows to maintain certain artifacts, e.g. strings and UI’s, in two ways, via a rich editor and directly via XML. The following description tries to use the rich UI but for validation lists also the XML. You can switch between the two things the the tab on the lower part of the screen. For example:

Step3:Android allows to create attributes for resources, e.g. for strings and / or colors. These attributes can be used in your UI definition via XML or in your Java source code.

Select the file “res/values/string.xml” and press “Add“. Select “Color” and maintain “myColor” as the name and “#000099” as the value.

Add also the following “String” attributes. String attributes allow to translate the application at a later point.

please see the xml file whether entries are correctly inserted or not and check for xml validity.

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<resources>

 <string name="hello">Hello World, Convert! string>

 <string name="app_name">Celsius to Fahrenheit Converter string>

<color name="myColor">#000099 color>

<string name="buttonHandler">myClickHandler string>

<string name="celsius">to Celsiusstring>

<string name="fahrenheit">to Fahrenheitstring>

resources>

Step4: UI Elements

Select “res/layout/main.xml” and open the Android editor via double-click. This editor allows to maintain the UI via drag and drop or directly via the XML source code. You can switch between both representations via the tabs at the bottom of the editor.witch to “main.xml” and verify that your XML looks like the following. Especially the grouping of RadioButtons into a group is difficult to get right with the editor. Delete the “Hello World, Hello!” via a right mouse click. You can add text fields and buttons via rich editor or by placing xml code in main.xml manually. After adding screen should look like this

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

 android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:background="@color/myColor">

<EditText android:id="@+id/EditText01" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:inputType="numberSigned|numberDecimal">EditText>

 <RadioGroup android:id="@+id/RadioGroup01"

 android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content">

 <RadioButton android:id="@+id/RadioButton01"

 android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/celsius" android:checked="true">RadioButton>

 <RadioButton android:id="@+id/RadioButton02"

 android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/fahrenheit">RadioButton>

 RadioGroup>

 <Button android:id="@+id/Button01"

 android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:onClick="@string/buttonHandler" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:text="calculate">Button>

LinearLayout>

Step5: Develop logic for converting celsius to Fahrenheit and viceversa write following java code in Convert.java

package org.androidbuzz.apps;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.EditText;

import android.widget.RadioButton;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class Convert extends Activity {

 private EditText text;

	@Override

 public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

		setContentView(R.layout.main);

		text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.EditText01);

	}

 // This method is called at button click because we assigned the name to the

 // "On Click property" of the button

 public void myClickHandler(View view) {

 switch (view.getId()) {

 case R.id.Button01:

			RadioButton celsiusButton = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.RadioButton01);

			RadioButton fahrenheitButton = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.RadioButton02);

 if (text.getText().length() == 0) {

				Toast.makeText(

 this,

						"Please enter a valid number", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

 return;

			}

 float inputValue = Float.parseFloat(text.getText().toString());

 if (celsiusButton.isChecked()) {

				text.setText(String

						.valueOf(convertFahrenheitToCelcius(inputValue)));

			} else {

				text.setText(String

						.valueOf(convertCelciusToFahrenheit(inputValue)));

			}

 // Switch to the other button

 if (fahrenheitButton.isChecked()) {

				fahrenheitButton.setChecked(false);

				celsiusButton.setChecked(true);

			} else {

				fahrenheitButton.setChecked(true);

				celsiusButton.setChecked(false);

			}

 break;

		}

	}

 // Converts to celcius

 private float convertFahrenheitToCelcius(float fahrenheit) {

 return ((fahrenheit - 32) * 5 / 9);

	}

 // Converts to fahrenheit

 private float convertCelciusToFahrenheit(float celsius) {

 return ((celsius * 9) / 5) + 32;

	}

}

Step6: You have done with generating all artifacts. Now you want to run your application and see the output. To run the application right click on TemperatureConverter –>Run as-> Android application

Emulator starts slowly…you’ll see the following output.

Our application appears in the main menu of the Android phone with android icon.