Having recently exceeded ten billion app downloads on the Android Market, Google recently announced a promotion where they discounted ten apps each day for ten days down to the price of ten pence. Clever that! Given the low price of entry, I picked up a fair few; and haven't tried quite a number of them out yet. Here are some brief thoughts on these, and a couple of other titles that have also recently been released to the market:

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Last month the British Android community gathered together (with a sizable international presence, including the Bangalore Android Group) for Droidcon UK, a huge conference in the Islington Design Centre to discuss all things Android.

Whilst a full breakdown of the two days of talks, barcamp and democamp is still forthcoming, I thought that one thread that ran through the whole conference, as well as the Labs hosted by Google the day before, was worth exploring separately.

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I was lucky enough last month to pick up a shiny new HP Touchpad in their firesale after HP announced they were withdrawing from the market.

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A nice effect that we've been experimenting with lately on mobile platforms is having a static background layer underneath a layer which can scroll up to completely cover it.

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There are few things that give a developer more pleasure than finding those small functions and helpful methods that can save huge amounts of work in development. When developing Android apps, one of my very favourite is the Linkify, a small, powerful and configurable utility that automatically adds links to any block of text that you're displaying in your Activity's views.

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