Mere months after the launch of Android 2.2, discussions about the impending release of Android 3.0, or “Gingerbread,” are gushing. Android 3.0 is rumored to be released sometime in the next few weeks, and will be a significant overhaul of Google’s market-dominatingsmartphone OS — and may be the first truly tablet-ready iteration of Android.
What to Expect
Phandroid broke the news about Android 3.0 (replete with the lamest, blurriest “leaked” photo I’ve ever seen). Here’s what they say will be included:

Built-in video chat support: The iPhone 4′s FaceTime video chat made a splash — and …

The Nexus one, along with some other phones, have the hardware for an FM radio but for some reason they do not have any software. The main problem is that this software is needed at the operating system level before any applications can take advantage of the feature.
Well, there is good news from Cyanogen. The experimental nightly builds now include the required software and application to listen in to FM radio on your Nexus One.
I have tested it out and it works better than expected. The sound is quite clear …

Have you heard? Yes probably you have. The highly anticipated update to the Android OS could begin to roll out next week. Not much is really known about it apart from the fact the focus of the release is on the UI. AndroidandMe quote that several hardware partners said it “change the way we use our phones”.
Hopefully by the end of next week there will be plenty of videos to wet the apatite.

Android Commander is a fast, lean and intuitive program for your MS Windows PC that lets you manage your Android applications, your ROM .zip files and helps you with flashing new ROM’s. The pre-requisite is that you have the Android SDK installed.

As already mentioned in Part 1, here’s the next part of our series ‘Building an Android Donut ROM.

After we complete this series, we will start with a new one, Building an Android Nexus One / Passion ROM. There will be lots of screenshots and maybe some videos. It will be a ‘work in progress’ as I have never built a ROM for my new baby yet. You will see all the errors I make (if any ) and I also count on you to point out stuff in the comments.

Well, I was planning to write my own tutorial about building an Android Donut ROM (which I successfully managed to do btw), but it took me so long and a lot of messing around with it that I, honest to God, cannot remember which changes I had to make. That is why I asked Chris Soyars if I could blatantly copy his tutorial and he agreed So without further ado, here is Part 1 of ‘Building an Android Donut ROM.

So you want to start developing an Android App, cook an Android ROM or an Android Theme ? (Yes, I do realize that below is a copy/paste from android.com but I am including it for completeness’ sake)

This page describes how to install the latest version of the Android SDK and set up your development environment for the first time.

So you want to start developing an Android App, cook an Android ROM or an Android Theme ? First check if your computer has the necessary system and software requirements. (Yes, I do realize that below is a copy/paste from android.com but I am including it for completeness’ sake)