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.

Now that we’ve had a bit of time to digest yesterday’s bombshell news that Apple are suing HTC over 20 patent infringements, the majority of which seem to be related to the Android software rather than HTC’s hardware, we ask; why didn’t Apple sue Google? We also whip out the crystal ball and try and guage what this all means for Android and what happens next.

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?

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.

Steve Jobs recently strongly criticised both Google and Adobe at an employee conference. He also drew a line in the sand for the fight between Google Android and the iPhone, claiming that Apple will start to update aggressively enough that Google won’t be able to keep up. But what exactly do Jobs’ comments mean for Android? Click the link to see our thoughts.

So, with this site having been going for a few months now, we decided it’s high time we spruced the place up a bit, as it was beginning to look a little on the shabby side.  To that end, we’ve moved host and have given the place a few licks of paint.  Hopefully you’ll like the new layout, but if you have any suggestions or complaints about our new look, please let us know.  You’ll probably find the odd issue here and there as we finish tidying up after the …

 
We here at This Android Life are going to be on a short break over the festive period, so this will be the last post for a few days.  I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all our readers, contributors and interviewees a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Have a Happy Christmas!

If you’ve been following Android-related news over the past few days, you’ll surely have spotted the recent comments from French software company Gameloft, that they intend to scale back their development for Android (I won’t rehash the news here or go over why I think it’s a bad move for Gameloft, but if you want to read more on it, check out the article at Android Guys).  Whilst the general response to the news from many Android users is one of indifference – Gameloft’s Android offerings aren’t exactly up there …

Just under a year ago, on November 6th, 2008, ‘Mystic’ Steve Ballmer gave the world a prediction on how he saw things going for Google Android’s future.
At the time, Ballmer was speaking at a Telstra annual investment day and when asked about Android, he claimed that designing the phone OS wasn’t going to be easy for Google. “They can hire smart guys, hire a lot of people, blah dee blah dee blah, but you know they start out way behind, in a certain sense,”
With an uncanny lack of prescience, Ballmer …

I just stumbled across an article on the PC World magazine detailing what they see as the main obstacle that could halt the Motorola Droid in it’s race to be the iPhone killer that people are hoping it will be. I read on, hoping for an insightful article on the flaws inherent in the Android Market, only to find that…well, I’ll let the article do the talking.  Here’s the first point I found interesting-
“There is still significant room for improvement though. What if I want an app that will …