Tag Archives: Android

Installing Android SDK on Ubuntu 11.10

The first step in installing the Android SDK is installing the Sun (Oracle) JDK. Java 7 is out now, but I will stick with the recommended Java 6. Sun JDK is not available in the Ubuntu repositories, so you need to install it using this method. Open Ubuntu Software Center, using the Super (Windows) Key …

December 16, 2011 – 3:07 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Hacking | Tagged , , | Comments (8)

Android is not free courtesy Microsoft

  ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft has signed a patent licensing agreement with Samsung for the latter’s Android phones and tablets. As hard as it is to accept, this has proven Steve Ballmer right where he said that “Android is not free. It comes with a patent cost”.  Samsung is not the first to sign …

September 28, 2011 – 8:19 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Tech | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)