Android applications in development

Mobile Moves ~ The impact of mobile applications on Orange County consumers and companies

Here’s a list of companies and independent developers who have announced that they are developing applications that will be available for Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices. If you have someone to add, e-mail us.

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A list of companies developing for the Apple iPhone is available here.

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ENTERTAINMENT

MY HIP — The company makes mostly games and entertainment software, but plans to develop some educational and social applications. (Atlanta, Georgia)

SIDE TRACK SOFTWARE — The company’s Josiah Larson said that he wants to develop his current iPhone web app iDoodle to run natively on the iPhone come June and also for Android, but he said Android is probably unlikely. (Pope Valley, Calif.)

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GAMES

GAMELOFT — Working on 15 games for the iPhone and iPod Touch by the end of the year. AppleInsider (New York City, New York)

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SOCIAL NETWORKING

Winksite — Company founder David Harper said that Winksite’s service has already been optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch as a web app and said the company is already developing native applications, but he’s still waiting on developing for Android. Harper said “Android has/will have great support for Javascript, AJAX, XHTML, CSS etc. - as such support for rich, application-like interfaces (like you see on the web in widgets for example) will be fairly straight-forward to develop from scratch or migrate from web-to-Android. This means mostly anyone that follows web development best practices and has experience in consumer-focused UI will be able to roll out experiences that work on the devices that support the Android OS. In other terms, web widgets become instant mobile apps. …also Android has no market share yet. :)”

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UTILITIES

Norbsoft Ltd. — The company has already developed the “iReading” web application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and will be developing native iPhone and Android applications. Norbsoft President Tomasz Witt writes: “Our core business is developing usefull applications for mobile devices and we will continue doing this. There are a lot of mobile games developers, but not so many developers are specializing in making mobile usefull applications (especially for Java mobile phones). So our next products will be: mobile book for mobile phones (already prepared for iPhone), finance calculators and some RSS Readers.” Witt said that the company is working on one application specifically for Android and it will be based on the company’s current J2ME apps. (Warsaw, Poland)

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