The new Sapphire 2.0.0 ROM is now available for the Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Droid Incredible, and soon the HTC EVO. Since the previous release 3 months ago there have been a variety of improvements in term of stability and battery life as well as a few new features. Sapphire is completely built from [...]

CyanogenMod 6.1 has been released for the Motorold Droid and other devices. This ROM is an AOSP-based build with extra contributions from many people which you can use without any type of Google applications. You can view the changlog and download the ROM from his website: http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/forum/10-motorola-droid-stable-mod/ Check out the other ROMs available here in [...]

If you have the latest Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and tried to build the Android Open Source Project you have discovered that your system lacks the necessary Java 5 to complete the build. Ubuntu 9.10 now includes Java 6 and has removed the now obsolete Java 5 from its repository. Unfortunately Android still requires this [...]

I’ve been using my Motorola Droid for over a month now.  Since I picked it up on November 6th I have been putting it through its paces and I can honestly say its a great device.  Like any other gadget it’s not without its flaws.  For example the reasoning for having multitouch support in Android [...]

Depending on your interest there are a few great places google has provided to start gathering information on the Android operating system. A good place to start is obviously android.com. If you intend to develop market applications with the Android SDK for platform you should check out developer.android.com. This is a great place to start [...]