The Droid browser seems a lot nicer, is there a way to pull just the browser from AOSP? or is the browser the same and motorola just improved theres?
You will get framework and SDK errors because it was made on a newer sdk. It's kind of like google maps where it needs to be backported by google, not like it in the way it partially worked on 1.6 and we have to minipulate files to get it to work.
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Will a HTC magic from Rogers be able to access and download all of the apps available on tmobiles app page if its using at&t?
Not quite sure what you mean by T-Mobiles app page.
The phone will run any app that is written for the version of Android OS it is running (ie 1.5, 1.6 or 2.0). Beyond that there are two main streams of the OS (HTC and Google). Certain apps depend on the HTC framework to run. If you have a phone with just the Google framework, these apps will not run. If this is the case and you desperately wanted that app you could flash a ROM that has the HTC framework, and it would run.
You can loads apps from the Market using the Market app. You can also load apps from the net, or from your computer via USB.
An example of this is the Canadian Rogers Magic, a 32a device. It is based on an HTC ROM which meant you got a nicer HTC dialer, along with some craplets from Rogers. When I flashed it to RA-IONv1.6.2H, which is a Google based ROM I lost the ability to run the nicer dialer, however the Google ROMs seem to run faster.
Ah ok I understand, I think i just called it the wrong name. Thanks man!
Anyone see Google Maps on the market? Seems as if Google has removed it. Hopefully this wont be bad news....
zimphishmonger said:
Anyone see Google Maps on the market? Seems as if Google has removed it. Hopefully this wont be bad news....
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you can get the apk from any rom. just download it unzip its in system/app
I'm seeing it in the market!
Weird. It is indeed gone and ATrackDog doesn't list it as a trackable app anymore either.
I think we'll get by without it in the market haha.
I'm wondering if google is getting ready to release google maps 3.2 with navigation onto the market. That would awesome.
For some reason, i dont think this is a positive thing. I know everyone on here will have no issue, but its def not a step in the right direction for the Android community at whole
This could mean.....
1: Google Maps with Navigation
2: Maps will be integrated back into updates instead of being a market app.
Are any other google apps that come on the phone still available? If there aren't other apps I bet they will only put them on the market when there is an update. Google is probably trying to make it harder for people who flash cyanogen's new roms. Luckily we have the htc 1.6 recovery, but if you can't figure that flash out you have a rom with no stock/system apps. Google is making sure we can't just install the apps from the market. Just my 2 cents.
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I'm wondering if google is getting ready to release google maps 3.2 with navigation onto the market. That would awesome.
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Maybe but it would seem to me that they would update the current one on the Market if that were the case. This sits uneasy with me. I don't like it.
I think this is a bad sign too. Goog may be planning to remove all their apps from the market, to limit the "Google Experience" apps to phones that are branded as such. With the slew of Android phones coming, they're trying to protect the revenue source from the handset makers.
It's still on the market for me.
Google maps was initially put on the market for the simple reason that it was an easier upgrade path than to force all phones to take a system upgrade.
The fact that only google experience phones have the market program means that only google experience phones would be able to get google apps off the market anyways, so it makes no difference.
If the "current version" of android is consistent with that of maps, no need for it on the market. If maps is ahead of android, then it needs to be on the market.
Always imagined Docs and Maps being kickass apps if Google was to put any effort for them for the Android platform. Now that we have navigation perhaps we can expect a Google Docs app sometime in the... near future? Maaaybe sometime before Flan arrives?
I'd love to be able to view/edit doc/xls files. If Docs gets hooked to my phone, I'll actualy start using it.
-bZj
you can access google docs on ur browser.
can edit, just can't upload and download.
its hard to edit xls files tho using phone browser.
There's tons of mscrapola document editors for android.
What we NEED is the ability to edit OPENDOCUMENT ISO/IEC 26300:2006
Hey Everyone,
I'm really enjoying the multi touch in the browser and the album. However, it is disappointing that it does not work in Google maps... I thought I saw a version that ran on the G1 that worked with multi touch, is that something we can get on the Eris? Or do we need root first?
Thanks!
i would say root first of course
I don't know if it's possible to crack the Google Maps application but thats the only way i see of getting Multi-Touch in there. But yeah I don't think there is one...Laxattack is there a multi-touch google maps for root users?
I thought I saw a GMaps that used multi-touch when the G1 was first hacked to take advantage of it years ago. But I did some Googling tonight and it appears it was just a very simple demo/wrapper app that "basically just wraps a WebView and displays your current location on the map, which you can then scroll around and zoom into/out of".
It does have an .apk link though... article is here:
http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/get-multi-touch-support-on-your-t-mobile-g1-today/
(Scroll down to the middle under MTMapsDemo). I had heard Google will be releasing Multi-touch enabled Google apps soon for the Nexus 1, so hopefully they'll come to the Eris too.
Multitouch requires root for most apps.
An official multi-touch version of Google maps was released for the Nexus 1 today...
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/nexus-one-gets-a-software-update-enables-multitouch/
Hopefully if/when we get Root this can be ported over to the Eris!
Multitouch is part of 2.1. If we get 2.1, we get multitouch. Without 2.1, we need root.
Anyway to replace Firefox with Chrome in webtop
would allow 'Chrome OS' technically, would be sweet
you can get a precompiled for arm Chromium build at http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/
I will try installing it soon, check out other webtop threads for more information about installing and running other applications
edit: chromium-browser is installed by default - will not start though. I think moto wanted to use chrome and probably had it working but chrome does not work with google gears and having some sort of offline database is crucial to this type of environment.