At AREA203 Digital, we decided to write our own mobile apps as a showcase of our abilities. We have identical apps written for both iPhone and Android phones (not iPad or Android tablets at this point) and it was an eye-opening experience developing both of these.

I've been using Android for about a year now and have seen a huge increase in the number of available apps during that time. Here's a list of the apps I have installed and use the most on my HTC Incredible.

Anyone keeping track of Android will no doubt have read about the apparent fragmentation issues with the Android platform. But what does this really mean?

OK so I've only had this phone for 2 hours, but here's my brief early review.

I've had my Droid for around 6 months now. For the most part we've been best friends, but we have had a few falling outs.

Open source is great, and we all know and appreciate that. Not only are open source projects (generally) free, they pave the way for thousands of developers around the world adding their personal talents to create a better solution.

However, several projects I've recently worked on have made me think about the benefits in more detail.

The first of many great ideas for Flash player apps on Android:

http://newteevee.com/2010/03/10/the-ultimate-music-video-jukebox-via-fla...

On 2nd March I received an e-mail from "Android Market Seeding" at Google. A snippet of the e-mail reads:

"Due to your contribution to the success of Android Market, we would like to present you with a brand new Android device as part of our developer device seeding program. You are receiving this message because you're one of the top developers in Android Market with one or more of your applications having a 3.5 star or higher rating and more than 5,000 unique downloads. "

For the most part I enjoy developing for the Android API. However, there are some very odd quirks that leave me pretty frustrated.