Developers can now benefit from Facebook's trial and error building Android apps Following lots of development time creating a new Android build tool to aid in development of its own Android apps , Facebook has decided to open-source it for other developers to use. Developed at a hack-a-thon last summer, the new build tool, named “Buck”, was created to better address the needs of Facebook as it moved to making more native apps — rather than just using . . . → Read More: Facebook open-sources its ‘Buck’ Android build tool
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Developers can now benefit from Facebook's trial and error building Android apps Following lots of development time creating a new Android build tool to aid in development of its own Android apps , Facebook has decided to open-source it for other developers to use. Developed at a hack-a-thon last summer, the new build tool, named “Buck”, was created to better address the needs of Facebook as it moved to making more native apps — rather than just using . . . → Read More: Facebook open-sources its ‘Buck’ Android build tool Sony has decided to release a sequel to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for Xperia S it began in August of 2012 , and took over from Google in November of last year . This time, the Xperia Z is getting its own project , which means that the company’s water resistant flagship phone will get to participate in the kind of Android development work more often reserved for Google-blessed Nexus devices. . . . → Read More: Sony Launches An Android Open Source Project For The Xperia Z Smartphone Fresh off of a trip to North Korea , Google’s executive chairman has found himself on stage here in New York City. Eric Schmidt is kicking off the second day of D: Dive Into Mobile 2013 here in the Big Apple, and we’re just a few feet away — you know, so we can liveblog every last word of it. And, to ogle his fashionable sneakers . . . → Read More: Liveblog: Google’s Eric Schmidt at Dive Into Mobile 2013 Google has taken to its Open Source Blog today to announce that it is creating a new pledge to never use its patents related to open-source software unless attacked first. . . . → Read More: Google pledges to only use open-source related patents defensively The founding utility of the webOS homebrew scene has gone open source. WebOS Quick Install was first released by Jason Robitaille back in 2009 and it has served as the backbone for homebrew app installations ever since. The robust Java-based desktop app runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, installs apps, themes, kernels, and patches from multiple homebrew sources, and with the latest update to version 4.5.0 has gone open source for the masses. . . . → Read More: WebOS Quick Install 4.5.0 goes open source  This morning it was revealed that HP is selling its webOS assets to LG – including the source code, personnel, and patents – and that LG intends to utilize those assets to deliver a webOS-powered smart TV in early 2014. LG has no ambitions or intentions to bring webOS to their mobile space as they're perfectly happy with all of the work they've put into Android over the past few years. To be frank, we would have been more than pleasantly surprised to see anybody take up the mantle of mobile webOS development. . . . → Read More: Not with a bang but a whimper  It's been a few months since we got the bad news that active development was to cease on Twitter app Tweet Lanes , but developer Chris Lacy today did announce that the app still has a future. Lacy is open-sourcing the code not only for the Tweet Lanes client, but also its SocialNetLib library (which works with App.net as well), as well as his AppEngine of things. “My sincerest hope is that by releasing this code, the . . . → Read More: Tweet Lanes goes open-source, looking for a few good devs  Today it was revealed that HP is working on an Android-powered tablet to be unveiled in the near future and possibly a smartphone for the farther future. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anymore. Despite statements over a year ago from CEO Meg Whitman looking to assuage anxious tech nerds about the future of webOS, HP has never shown any real inclination towards producing new webOS hardware since the cancellation of the last webOS hardware almost eighteen months ago to the day. . . . → Read More: A final nail in the webOS coffin or a release from the purgatory of Palo Alto?  The Sony Xperia Z isn't due to be available globally until the end of the month, but being the good, GPL-abiding . . . → Read More: Sony Xperia Z kernel source code published ahead of phone launch |
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