The latest release of the Android Native Development Kit is now available for download, as announced on Google Android Developers blog yesterday. The most interesting addition is Open GL ES 2.0 support. Open GL ES 2.0 will offer Android phones (only those running Android 2.0 or later unfortunately) much improved 3D graphics – an area in which Android has previously been found wanting when compared to the likes of the iPhone 3GS.

Mashable are reporting that Google are set to launch an app store targeting business users at some point over the course of the next week, possibly as early as tomorrow.  To my mind, this is a good move for Google.  They need a strong catalogue of enterprise apps if they have any plans to make in-roads in tempting the corporate market.
The existing apps market receives a lot of criticism due to it being occasionally difficult to navigate.  It’s also full of all sorts of nonsense apps such as soundboards and …

Following a discussion conducted in a bar over the weekend (the best kind of discussion as far as we’re concerned), we thought we’d put together a list of the applications and games we’d most like to see being released on the Android platform. We’d love to hear your suggestions too. Who knows, maybe some enterprising and dynamic developer is reading this and will roll up his or her sleeves and start coding one of your suggestions.

Google have released yet another new Android app, this time it’s a new method of searching for specific entries amongst your phone’s contacts, music files, apps or browser bookmarks by drawing characters on the screen. The new app is called Gesture Search and is only available for devices running Android 2.0 or higher.

It was announced today that Flash 10.1 isn’t the battery hog that Steve Jobs seemed to indicate it would be. Experts around the world expressed their un-surprise at the news. It’s all just more fuel to the fire in the war of words between Apple and Adobe. But, could there possibly be an ulterior motive behind the feud?

Following on from the recent announcements regarding Gowalla for Android entering beta, Skyhook Wireless have revealed that, as with the iPhone version, Skyhook will be providing the location positioning services for Gowalla for Android.
Click the link for the full press release.

Gizmodo have recently posted an article regarding the future of Adobe Flash for mobile devices which brings good news for those awaiting Flash 10.1 for Android…but only providing those same people are also using Android 2.1.
It seems that Flash 10.1 for Android should be with us in the first half of 2010, but the Android version needs access which is only available in 2.1 onwards.  Which is a bit of a blow to the rest of us.  The update will be released over the air, presumably by the carriers, so …

Having one of your apps listed as one of the finalists in the Android Developers Challenge is surely something to brag about. So, when Flash of Genius, developers of the exam preparation app “Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab”, added this news to the app’s description on the Apple Apps Store, they surely won’t have been expecting the response they got from Apple. Click the link for more.

UPDATE- It has since cone to light that this rumour was totally off the mark. Mozilla have stated that an alpha version is months away from being anywhere near ready.
The latest, I know a friend who knows a friend, rumour doing the rounds among the Android sites at the moment is one from German Firefox site Camp-firefox.de.  A post there seems to indicate that we should see a beta version of the web browsing app for Android at some point next month.
It’ll be interesting to see firstly, Mozilla’s take …

Beebplayer, a media app which ties in to BBC’s iPlayer service, has been one of my favourite apps since I first started using Android. So I was delighted when it’s developer, David Johnston, agreed to answer a few questions for This Android Life. (Apologies to my non-UK based readers, this probably won’t mean much to you!). Click the link to read the interview in full.