Posts Tagged ‘android’

Posted on December 19, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Antyony Fraiser’s Playd iPhone and Android Apps Now Available

Originally posted on BlackWeb20.com

Are you into gaming or mobile or social gaming or earning rewards or all of the above? If so you’re in luck as playd iPhone and Android apps are now available for you to download on both the iPhone app store and Android Market place. Playd allows you to you rate, share, and discuss the games you love with your friends!

In an email sent last night Playd founders say:

I’m proud to announce that Playd is finally born! We spent the entire summer building and collecting feedback from you guys and now you can see it in action. As gamers our work is never done. We are forever working on new features and partnerships to offer you guys the best experience.

Playd app features include verified check-ins, real-time game channels with your friends and tokens. With tokens you can earn you free swag, discounts, DLC, and more! Here are a few Playd screnshots.

For more about Playd visit: http://playd.it or follow @getplayd on Twitter.

Disclaimer: Anthony Frasier, @AntyonyFraiser, cofounder Playd was one of the startups that participated in the NewME Accelerator. BlackWeb 2.0 and NewME Accelerator are owned and operated by Black Web Media.

Also read: Anthony Frasier and Tiffani Ashley Bell are the new face of Black Startups

Have you downloaded and “played” Playd? If so let us know what you think about the app in the comments below.

Posted on September 5, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

How Apple could disrupt the QR Code Reader App business and make QR Codes main stream in iOS5

When it comes to the QR Code marketing / implementation business one question I often would get is what is the best QR Code reader for xyz smartphone. That would include blackberry and nokia smartphones that come with a built in QR Code Reader/Scanner. But for the iPhone, Android and windows mobile smartphones you would have to search the various App stores for QR Code Reader or QR Code Scanner, read the reviews and try out the growing list of QR Code reader apps that for the most part does the exact same thing with the exception of a few security features or a faster reader.

With the growing interest in QR Codes being used in the USA (already mainstream and popular overseas) Apple and Google/Android OS could disrupt the QR Code Reader App business and make QR Codes main stream by just adding the “Scan QR Code” option the native camera app. That’s it, that’s all. From there every iPhone or Android powered device would have a built in QR Code Scanner app by default. It’s something that a few apps are already doing with their camera option. I think both AT&T and best buy iPhone apps have this feature as well. The new version of TriOut has the “Scan QR Code” option as you can see in the screenshot below. Apple could add this option easily.

Now, will Apple or Google add or include a default QR Code reader app/feature? Only time will tell but I would think Google would add it first being how a lot of Android apps use QR Codes for quick installation.

Just a thought.

Posted on April 28, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Google announces Video Chat for Android Phones moving one step closer to unified mobile video calls

Today Google announced Video Chat for Android Phones starting with the Nexus S device as part of the Android 2.3.4 over-the-air update and will launch on other Android 2.3+ devices soon. This comes on the heels as Fring just announced their free four way video calling  service and the recent Skype acquisition of Qik video calling platform. But as RWW posted when will video calling work across smartphones natively from the mobile OS?  Example iPhone facetime video call to a google voice user and a google voice video call to a skype call?  Only time will tell but this is a good start and I’m sure Android users are happy about the pending update.

 

The offering, when it ships, sounds like it will be more compelling than Apple’s Facetime but less useful than independent mobile video chat apps like Tango that offer iPhone to Android video chat. A number of mobile video chat apps have been launched in just the past few weeks from Skype, Qik, Fring (now with group video calling on iPhone!) and others. But how long will we have to wait until Android users can video call iPhone owners without any more thought than voice calls require today? via

Android Joins the Mobile Video Chat Party but We’re Still in the Dark Ages | RWW

via: Video Chat on Your Android Phone – Official Google Mobile Blog.

Posted on January 6, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Google releases the official Honeycomb/Android 3.0 Preview video

If you are currently using Google’s Android OS on a tablet you’ll notice at times it’s not as slick or intuitive as a tablet OS should be especially one from Google. That’s because the current Android OS wasn’t really made for tablets. That will all change soon as Google is set to release Android 3.0 what is also known as Honeycomb.

A few days ago Google released a teaser video of the new tablet optimized Honeycomb/Android OS as the wave of tablet announcements are being made at CES this week running the new OS. Take a look.

Are you excited about new Honeycomb/Android powered tablets being announced at CES this week?

Update: Android 3.0 Honeycomb shown off in new series of videos via BGR

Posted on September 21, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

5 Ways Developers and Partners are using the new TriOut API

Before check.in was release TriOut founder Lawrence Ingraham and I new at some point TriOut would need an API. What we didn’t know is how soon it would be created after the initial launch in February 2010. Then we saw the first beta release of check.in announced and I contacted my friends at Brightkite to see if they were interested in including TriOut for the second beta version and the response was yes. Some may have wondered why include a hyper-local location-based platform in a national check-in web app where the goal is to help solve check-in fatigue but the answer is simple. Why not? One being North Carolina users have check-in fatigue too and it was just the push TriOut needed to go ahead and develop an API (http://api.trioutnc.com). After the go ahead yes, Lawrence developed the TriOut API and announced it along with the release of the TriOut Andriod/iPhone HTML5 web check-in application (http://mobile.trioutnc.com) in June.

Since the launch of the API some developers/partners/friends have made a few web and mobile applications using the TriOut API. Here are a few.

1. Google Chrome TriOut Check-in Extension [download link]

Beta on http://github.com/hyperlink/triout
Develiped by Xiaoxin @hyperlink

2. FT TriOut NC – WordPress Plugin

Developed by Glenn Ansley of Full Throttled Development

3. SPARKcon iPhone & Android native apps

iPhone app made by Sal Conigliaro of Acme, Inc

Android app made by Media Box Studios

4. Custom TriOut Widgets http://trioutnc.com/u/widgets.php

Developed by TriOut

5. Check.In made by Brightkite

Speaking of the TriOut API, we’re using it to develop the next version of our iPhone app along with an upgrade to our web app. Yes, we’re working on an Andriod app built off of the API too but if you’re an Android developer and want to get a head start let us know. A big thanks to everyone creating apps using the TriOut API.