iFighter 1945 is a classic retro vertical shooter. As the ace pilot of the airforce in WWII, your mission is to destroy the secret weapon prototypes of the Nazis. Fasten your seat belt and get ready for some non-stop action!

An Instagram for Android app is finally here. Previously iPhone-only, not everyone is pleased to have the riff-raff crash their twee color-filtering party. [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3795445 ]

The first privileged access area is the SD Card. Every application has at least read-only access to the contents of this external storage. ''No Permissions'' scans the /sdcard directory and returns a list of all non-hidden files. While it's possible to fetch the contents of all those files, I’ll leave it to someone else to decide what files should be grabbed and which are going to be boring. It's worth noting that even though the Android developer docs state that there's no security enforced upon files stored on external storage, many things are stored on the SD Card, including photos, backups, and any external configuration files -- on my own device, I found that OpenVPN certificates were stored on the SD card (which I promptly corrected!) Secondly, I can fetch the /data/system/packages.list file to determine what apps are currently installed on the device. From there, I can scan each directory used by those applications to determine whether sensitive data can be read from those directories. In the ‘’No Permissions’’ app, this functionality returns a list of installed apps and a list of any readable files. When testing this on the Android emulator, I am only able to read the app's own directory, but when testing on a real device, I am able to read some files belonging to other apps. This feature could be used to find apps with weak-permission vulnerabilities, such as those that were reported in Skype last year. The third action I was able to take was to grab identifiable information about the device itself. Without the PHONE_STATE permission, it's not possible to read the IMEI or IMSI, however the GSM & SIM vendor IDs can still be read. The /proc/version pseudofile, which reveals the kernel version and possibly the name of the custom ROM installed, can also be read. In addition to those identifying values, the app reads the Android ID, which is a 64-bit number randomly generated when a device is first booted and remains constant thereafter. More information about the Android ID is available in the Android Developer Docs.

Alarm clock that can only be switched off when you are really out of bed! The alarm clock uses the Wifi signal strength to determine your position. You will only be able to switch off your alarm when you are close enough to your WiFi router.

Setup (Get Out Of Bed ) Goob Alarm

Here’s the rub: Instgram is a fucking photo app that a competent team could build at a weekend hackathon. Its revenue model: presumably selling user data down the road. After all, its users aren’t going to start paying for something that they used to get for free, and that they can get for free elsewhere. Think about how many damn photo apps there are in the market. Think about it again. One last time.

Galcon is an awesome high-paced multi-player galactic action-strategy game!

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3atqrBYGYUA ]

There are ways for them to "track" the sites you visit on the browser if you log in to *.facebook.com and stay logged in on your browser. Don't know the specific details, but one way they can do this is by using the "Like" buttons on some of the sites, they can get the user id of the logged in session (cookies) as well as the site you are visiting, and track you. Anyways, Tinfoil for Facebook has its own CookieManager, so that you can log in using this app to *.facebook.com and not through the browser, so that whenever you browse sites on the regular browser, there's almost no way for them to track you. Again, I don't know the full details of how and if they track you, and nobody knows EXACTLY how they do it except for them, I'm just trying to prevent this as much as possible, somehow, I don't trust facebook. Also, this app doesn't allow them to use location, unless you enable it, and a couple of other things.

When it comes to capturing, Scalado’s vision is to capture the moment as close to reality as possible – or even better! Scalado has pioneered the capturing experience for several years and we are known for the widest and most innovative offering in the industry. We are totally committed to creating the best capture experience for the user and we are constantly finding new ways to improve it.

When capturing photos in a busy area, like a public square or a concert for example, it is often difficult to get a clean shot without unwanted objects entering the frame. Now you can capture the shot anyway, and simply let the camera remove the people for you!

Point your camera and take a photo. Afterwards you can remove anyone moving around, or select your friends and remove any strangers.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:regular,medium,thin,italic,mediumitalic">

You'll also want to add SIP addresses for the contacts you want to call this way. To do so: Touch the contact's info in the Call log tab . Touch to go to the contact's card. Touch the Menu icon, then Edit. Scroll to the bottom of the screen, touch Add another field, and then Internet call. Touch the Internet call field and type the number.

opera:config > Proxy. Check "Use HTTP" and "Use HTTPS" and enter IP:port under "HTTP Server" and "HTTPS Server".

Android Adblock is an open-source ad-blocking app that removes ads from websites you visit with your Android device. Install now so you can surf the web in peace!

The FDroid Repository is an easily-installable catalogue of FOSS applications for the Android platform. The server contains the details of multiple versions of each application, and the Android client makes it easy to browse, install them onto your device, and keep track of updates.

Ubuntu for Android requires minimal custom hardware enablement, allowing fast and cost-efficient core integration. It requires a core based on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) or any subsequent version. Ubuntu and Android share the same kernel. When docked, the Ubuntu OS boots and runs concurrently with Android. This allows both mobile and desktop functionality to co-exist in different runtimes. Shared services and applications are delivered using a Convergence API module which ensures the tight integration between desktop and mobile environments. Work is balanced across the cores of the phone. When the handset is not docked, both CPU cores transfer their full power to Android.

Public key encryption for the Android. Encrypt/decrypt emails/files via OpenPGP. OpenPGP for Android. It's open source and its goal is to provide a similar OpenPGP implementation as GnuPG.

Whisper Systems provides security and management solutions that transform consumer phones and tablets into enterprise-ready devices.

As of this writing, there's no contest: ship mobile apps if you can afford it. Our usability studies with mobile devices clearly show that users perform better with apps than with mobile sites. (Mobile sites have higher measured usability than desktop sites when used on a phone, but mobile apps score even higher.) The empirical data is really all you need to know. It's a fact that apps beat mobile sites in testing. To plan a mobile strategy, you don't need to know why the winner is best, but I'll try to explain it anyway. Mobile applications are more usable than mobile-optimized websites because only limited optimization is possible during website design. An app can target the specific limitations and abilities of each individual device much better than a website can while running inside a browser.

vCard, MeCard etc.

The phone itself supports the Gif format. However it doesn't support the animated version by default. The reason being is Android doesn't parse the Gif image's slides as an animated clip (no idea why specifically). In apps, we have to basically provide each slide to an animation container and tell it to animate. It's lame but gets the job done.

Gifinator is an animated gif creator that is super easy to use! Just touch the screen to take pictures, tweak your animation, and share your gif with your friends! Now anyone can have fun with stop motion! With Gifinator Plus, your animations can have more than 10 frames, and you can save your gifs at a higher quality.

When I bought my unlocked Galaxy Nexus, I figured that I’d simply use the SIM card in my iPhone 4S with the handset. Instead, I pulled the T-Mobile SIM out of my Samsung Galaxy Tab. I’m glad I did because I discovered a very appealing scenario. By using the data-only SIM — which costs me $40.00 per month for unlimited texts and data — with a new Android 4.0 feature, I’ve turned the Galaxy Nexus into a VoIP phone: I can get or receive calls solely through Wi-Fi and mobile broadband networks without subscribing to a voice plan.

Saves the list of installed apps so you can re-download them from the Market later (on the same or another device). This way apps still show up in Downloads and receive updates (unlike with MyBackup Pro). The idea is NOT to back up non-Market apps or to save you from re-downloading apps, so please don't rate negatively due to that.

A quick comparison between a Nexus S running Gingerbread and one running Ice Cream Sandwich. Gingerbread opens and closes apps slightly faster but the apps run better on ICS. The ICS web browser compared to the Gingerbread one is like night and day, it is much better.

"We have two people working on Android now," Systrom told attendees of the LeWeb conference here, though he didn't say when the work would be done. "I'm excited to be able to see our numbers today nearly double."

In this video, we review Dillo Hills for Android. It's clearly a clone of the popular iPhone title Tiny Wings. The goal of the game is keep the armadillo moving smoothly across levels riddled with hills.

Why wait until November for your official taste of Ice Cream Sandwich?

The demo is Android's H.264 decoder compiled with Emscripten to JavaScript, then further optimized with Google's JavaScript closure compiler. No hardware acceleration whatsoever!

A lucky gent ordered a Samsung Nexus S on eBay and, upon its arrival, noticed that his new prized possession looked a little... different. Hopping over to the About screen, he was shocked to discover that the device was running ICS. The firmware appears to be operating on the same baseband as the screenshots leaked a few weeks ago, but it's running on an updated build (IRK48) and kernel (3.0.1).

I’ve seen a couple of blog posts today, including two by John Gruber of Daring Fireball (who I thought was smarter than this), that insist that Android 4.0′s new font, Roboto, is a Helvetica rip-off. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3133147 ]

Minimalistic Text is a widget app that displays information in a minimalistic way.
It can be configured to display time, date, battery and weather information. The layout of the widget is highly customizable through the layout editor. Minimalistic Text is heavily inspired by BattStat and Clockr but adds extreme flexibility.

Speed browsing tons of pictures without background service!
Clear thumbnail previews, include or exclude the specified folders! Easy hide your photos and videos, even protect them a password! Greater resolution, better image quality of full-screen photo view! Play animated-GIFs. iPhone' smooth experience: sliding shift or switch, single/double tap or pinch to zoom! Rich image editing and management features: rotate, crop/shrink, share, set wallpaper, slides, sort, rename, move/copy!

Dangerous hacks come in small packages. Or they will, perhaps, when an app called Anti, or Android Network Toolkit, hits the Android market next week. The program, which Israeli security firm Zimperium revealed at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas Friday and plans to make available to Android users in coming days, is designed for penetration testing–in theory, searching out and demonstrating vulnerabilities in computer systems so that they can be patched. Anti aims to bring all the hacking tools available to penetration testers on PCs to smartphones, with an automated interface intended to make sniffing local networks and owning remote servers as simple as pushing a few buttons.

Android uses a vastly different approach. It is based on “all or nothing.” I’ll let Nachenberg explain: “Each Android app contains an embedded list of permissions that it needs in order to function properly. This list of requests is presented to the user in non-technical language at the time an app is installed on the device, and the user can decide whether or not to allow the app to be installed based on their tolerance for risk. If the user chooses to proceed with the installation, the app is granted permission to accessall of the requested subsystems. On the other hand, if the user chooses to abort the installation, then the app is completely blocked from running. Android offers no middle ground.”

I was an Android user for quite some time and don't regret it. But honestly: Android devices aren't able to compete with the iPhone in the same market segment. iOS is mostly much more fun to use, the platform itself is more mature, there is a ton of really well implemented apps and the iPhone4 itself is just a great device. Of course, Android is more open than iOS and there are things an Android device can do which are just not possible or forbidden by Apple on iOS. But know what? - These corner cases don't bother me any more. I've been using my iPhone for a few months now. Even in the first days I was able to do more useful stuff with it than I ever did on Android in almost two years. At the moment I'm really pleased with the experience on iOS, but I'm also curious if this is the case in two years from now. Buy an Android phone if you want a smartphone that works and does its job. Buy an iPhone if you care about user experience and want a smartphone that works really well.

BlueInput for Android is a HID Bluetooth driver. HID stands for Human Input Device, meaning you can use Blueinput for Android to connect a Bluetooth Keyboard or Mouse to your Android device. Type emails faster, browse the internet easier, all in one, a unique new experience, that transforms your Mobile Device into the perfect Mobile Office solution. Compatible with Android Tablets and Android Phones as well.

Tampermonkey is a Greasemonkey compatible script manager for Android. [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2691383 ]

The core problem with the Android screenlock is that it's entered via the touchscreen, which leaks a considerable amount of information through the greasetrail that your fingers leave behind. The paper "Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens" examines the efficacy of this attack in great detail. Even after using a phone for several minutes after an unlock, as well as after having the phone in your pocket, smudge trails still remain usable. [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2609037 ]

FaceNiff is an Android app that allows you to sniff and intercept web session profiles over the WiFi that your mobile is connected to. It is possible to hijack sessions only when WiFi is not using EAP, but it should work over any private networks (Open/WEP/WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK)
It's kind of like Firesheep for android. Maybe a bit easier to use (and it works on WPA2!). [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2611197 | http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2611158 ]

Export your SMS as text file and save on SD card. Fast and easy to backup messages!

ES File Explorer is a featured File/Application Manager which can explore the phones & PCs in LAN & Remote & Bluetooth.

When you turn your ringer off for a movie, this app turns it back on afterwards. It's activated when you silence your ringer using the volume buttons. You don't need to remember a special app! Once your ringer is off, it asks you how long to stay silent. Never miss another important call.

WhisperCore is a secure Android platform dedicated to providing the security and management features necessary for transforming a consumer phone into an enterprise-class device.

Ever been stuck in traffic, only to find out you’d have been better off going a bit out of your way to take a less congested route? If you’re like me, you probably hear the traffic report telling you what you already know: traffic is bad on the road you’re currently on, and you should have taken another. It doesn’t need to be this way, and we want to help. So we’re happy to announce that Google Maps Navigation (Beta) will now automatically route you around traffic. With more than 35 million miles driven by Navigation users every day, this should add up to quite a bit of time saved!

This is an application for backing up files on sdcard through Dropbox. Users can choose any files/directories on sdcard to be synced with remote directories on Dropbox. [ http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/03/04/dropspace-adds-real-dropbox-sync-to-android/ ]

Only works if you already have Swype installed (e.g. on the Samsung Galaxy S). If you don't have Swype, DON'T install this! You often use words which aren't in the dictionary of Swype or you write in dialect? This app helps you import all your words from existing short messages to Swype.

Depth of Field Calculator for Photographers. Including Hyperfocal Distance, Near Limit, Far limit, and DOF. Fast, light, efficient and simple one page graphical interface.

We’ve been hard at work on something super seeekrit and we’d like to give you a preview. No, it’s not a series of leaked Whitehouse cables or Military secrets, it’s way more awesome: Songbird is coming to Android!

A pair of researchers presenting at the Black Hat DC conference are showing off an amusing new attack against laptops and smartphones that is initiated simply by plugging the phone into the PC. In a way, it's an obvious attack. Instead of making a USB-connected smartphone appear to a host computer as a phone, make it appear to be a mouse or a keyboard—and then use that mouse or keyboard to take control of the computer. The computer can't tell a real keyboard with real user input apart from a fake one, so is powerless to prevent exploitation. The researchers also described how such an attack could propagate; the phone could install malware to the PC that would in turn install malware to any new phones.

We've launched a great Kongregate app in the Android Market with over 300 free games, mobile-only badges, high scores, ratings, comments, offline play. It uses your Kongregate web account and you get 50 points when you install the app. Check it out by searching for "Kongregate" in the Android Market.

Gibber is a secured chat client capable of firewall and filter circumvention, surveillance blocking and end-to-end encryption.

Rehearsal Assistant is a software tool which helps performance artists conduct rehearsals by addressing media-related needs. The prototype application is for the Android platform, and allows spoken notes to be recorded and saved into audio files.

Posterous for Android makes posting and sharing your life as simple as a few taps. Now you can send in photos, a video or a couple of paragraphs directly from your Android device.

When the Huawei Ascend launches on prepaid carrier Cricket Wireless later this month, it will cost $150. That's not after a rebate or with a two-year agreement, mind you -- for three portraits of Ulysses S. Grant, you actually own the phone.

From the outset, BeejiveIM is just another multi-network messenger. It has support for all of the usual suspects -- AIM, Yahoo, MSN, GTalk, Jabber, ICQ, MySpace IM, and even a very nice Facebook chat interface. What sets it apart from its clunky brethren, of which there are many, is the user interface. The UI (and I apologize for this cliché) is an absolute dream. The ease at which you can carry out conversations across multiple networks is almost superior to desktop apps.

Winamp, the Ultimate Media Player, is now available in beta on AndroidTM (Android 2.1 OS and above). It offers a complete media management solution by seamlessly syncing with the Winamp desktop library. In addition to high quality playback and persistent player controls, Winamp for Android offers wireless desktop sync with your Winamp desktop application (Winamp 5.59 beta required). Standard USB syncing also available.