For all those who haven’t got on the other 3rd party keyboard band wagons such as Swiftkey and Kii, there’s Swype. Swype is one of the original and greatest gesture based 3rd party keyboard available, and today Nuance has given their keyboard an impressive update. Nuance has had such an impact on the Android world, that they don’t even feel the need to put their app on the Play ... »
The development team behind one of the more popular custom ROM projects, Paranoid Android, took to its Google+ page this morning to detail the future of the PA Preferences application. A closed-source beefed up version of the preferences app will be supplied to official ROM releases, and possibly to all ROMs compatible with Paranoid Android. In other words, no DPI changer, no dual pane, and no hac... »
Now every month the Android Developers site updates to show us how well our Android fragmentation is getting, and for the past …forever… Gingerbread (2.3.x) has been on more than 50% of devices. Now, finally, the tables have shifted and Jellybean (4.1+) has gotten on to more than 10% of devices, we can definitely thank the Nexus 4, Galaxy S 3, RAZRs, and Note 2 for that. My one questio... »
Been wondering what’s up with the status of the Android Open Kang Project (AOKP) 4.2 Jelly Bean release? If the answer to that question is yes, you can finally breathe a sigh of relief, as Build 1 just hit the Interwebz earlier this evening. The first build is only available for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Verizon and GSM variants), LG Nexus 4, and ASUS Nexus 7 at the current time, with more d... »
CyanogenMod, the largest and most popular AOSP-based custom ROM project on the planet, rang in 2o13 with the introduction of its brand-spankin’ new wiki page. Drew Suarez, one half of the wiki development team, took to Google+ to share the news. Here’s what he had to say: I am very pleased to announce the new CyanogenMod Wiki page to the public today. Fattire and myself spent many hour... »
![[Video Review] Dead Trigger Christmas Update](http://www.omgdroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2012-12-17-20.36.30-533x200.png)
Well what do ya know, the team at Madfinger Games have been busy. In today’s video we will be looking at a quick play through and review of the Christmas update on their popular Zombie shoot-em-up, Dead Trigger. They’ve add Zanta (Zombie + Santa= … anyone?) zombies and a new ‘Xmas’ arena. There are some other surprises along the way. Watch the video below for all the ... »
One thing I’ve learned in my years of owning Android devices and using Google services, is that Google loves holidays. More so, they really enjoy doing artwork and graphics for the holidays. It’s of no surprise then that their +Nexus page introduced 4 new holiday wallpapers to make your devices a bit more festive. I’ve got to admit, they did one hell of a job on this series. E... »
![[Video Review] Google+ rolls out a huge update, includes Communities](http://www.omgdroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gplusicon.png)
Today we will go over the details of the new updated version of Google+. They’ve done an entire makeover of the app lots of new goodies to be had. The video covers the new features included below: Google+ Communities Support for full resolution photo uploads with instant upload Subscribe to any circle for notifications Time zones in Events Basic profile editing Integration with Google Now a... »
On Monday we shared what information we could find out about the Exynos Kernel Vulnerability that has been discovered in the Galaxy Note 2, Note 10.1, Galaxy camera, international Galaxy SIII and the international/sprint versions of the Galaxy SII. Since then, Samsung has released an official statement: “Samsung is aware of the potential security issue related to the Exynos processor and pla... »
