Android Gingerbread style tweaks revealed by way of new Maps version?
Seems that reaching into the innards of the latest version of Google Maps for Android and changing the API level from 8 ( Froyo ) to 9 ( Gingerbread ) changes the UI a bit, as you can see above. What we know today is on the left, and the right side represents the tweaks that we presume will match up with the changes Google has made systemwide in Gingerbread, a build that we now believe will likely be Android 2.3 at retail.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: api, changelog, dialog, duarte, froyo, google-maps, googlemaps, increment, Job, number-instead, tweaks
Google Maps for Android updated to 4.4, adds dedicated ‘Places’ for searching nearby
Ready to suck down your sixth Google Maps for Android update in the past six months? Good.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: compass, google-maps, googlemaps, maps, months, operating, place-pages, station, update
Google Maps 4.1 for Android brings multiple account support, trippy live map wallpaper
Google's been iterating its Maps client for Android devices at a positively ridiculous pace lately, burning through versions 3.4 and 4.0 in a span of just a few days last month -- but hey, March is upon us, which apparently means it's time for another fresh cut. This time around we're looking at 4.1, though the mere 0.1 bump in the version number really doesn't do this thing justice -- they've redesigned the results screen, added a swipe gesture for moving between results, served up a new Latitude widget for the home screen, and brought in support for multiple Google accounts (for seeing different Buzz follows, for instance). The icing on the cake, though, is a new live wallpaper for Android 2.1 phones that's a live map of your location, which sounds absurdly awesome -- assuming it doesn't beat your battery to a bloody pulp with constant GPS access, of course.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: entry, gmaps, google maps 4.1, googlemaps, live, maps, swipe, though-the-mere
Motorola Droid gets official multitouch support — in Google Maps, anyway
When it rains, it pours, huh, Google? Not even a week after announcing the big multitouch update for its own Nexus One , Google has turned loose a new version of Google Maps that enables pinch-to-zoom support on the Droid . Of course, it was no secret that Android 2.0 had the framework in place to support this kind of stuff -- Moto enabled it all by its lonesome on the Euro-spec Milestone -- but it looks like this could be the watershed moment where multitouch finally becomes a must-have feature on Android devices across the board, as Moto CEO Sanjay Jha recently suggested would happen .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: breakingnews, ceo, framework, fri, google-maps, googlemaps, moment, spec, update, verizonwireless, vzw
Google blocks hacked Navigation from international use
We were sort of hoping Google would turn a blind eye to the Android hackers who'd enabled Google Maps Navigation for use internationally , but it appears we're just hopelessly optimistic: El Goog's shut Navigation down outside the States.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, google-navigation, googlemaps, googlemapsnavigation, googlenavigation, international, neutral, report
Google Maps Navigation makes trip across the pond, thanks to some hackery
Apparently us Yanks have been spoiled by the warm embrace of Google Maps Navigation , forgetting that our friends in the UK don't have the same luxury. Leave it to Electricpig to connect worlds, finding a somewhat hack-induced way to bring the app upgrade to British Android 1.6 devices . Instructions are pretty easy, so if you're game, don your DIY hat and click over
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: europe, google-maps, google-maps-navigation, googlemaps, gps, great britain, htc, mapsnavigation, neutral, replies, report, taxes, united-kingdom, unitedkingdom
Google Maps Navigation hacked for extra-American use
Guess what, prospective Milestone owners, the Droid's one major advantage over its Euro cousin has just been coded out of existence by those proactive, un-American XDA Developers . The free Google Maps Navigation service, whose US announcement was so shocking as to decimate the stock prices of satnav purveyors Garmin and TomTom, has now been ported to work outside the land of the free as well. Not only that, but you can use the app on other Android devices, meaning your old G1 can get a breath of fresh air for absolutely free.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, google-maps-navigation, googlemaps, googlemapsnavigation, gps, hacked, htc, moto, motorola, motoroladroid, motorolamilestone