Android, the world's most popular mobile platform

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Android powers hundreds of millions of mobile devices in more than 190 countries around the world. It's the largest installed base of any mobile platform and growing fast—every day another million users power up their Android devices for the first time and start looking for apps, games, and other digital content.

Android gives you a world-class platform for creating apps and games for Android users everywhere, as well as an open marketplace for distributing to them instantly.

Android growth in device activation

Global partnerships and large installed base

Building on the contributions of the open-source Linux community and more than 300 hardware, software, and carrier partners, Android has rapidly become the fastest-growing mobile OS.

Every day more than 1 million new Android devices are activated worldwide.

Android’s openness has made it a favorite for consumers and developers alike, driving strong growth in app consumption. Android users download more than 1.5 billion apps and games from Google Play each month.

With its partners, Android is continuously pushing the boundaries of hardware and software forward to bring new capabilities to users and developers. For developers, Android innovation lets you build powerful, differentiated applications that use the latest mobile technologies.

Powerful development framework

Easily optimize a single binary for phones, tablets, and other devices.

Android gives you everything you need to build best-in-class app experiences. It gives you a single application model that lets you deploy your apps broadly to hundreds of millions of users across a wide range of devices—from phones to tablets and beyond.

Android also gives you tools for creating apps that look great and take advantage of the hardware capabilities available on each device. It automatically adapts your UI to look its best on each device, while giving you as much control as you want over your UI on different device types.

For example, you can create a single app binary that's optimized for both phone and tablet form factors. You declare your UI in lightweight sets of XML resources, one set for parts of the UI that are common to all form factors and other sets for optimizations specific to phones or tablets. At run-time, Android applies the correct resource sets based on its screen size, density, locale, and so on.

To help you develop efficiently, the Android Developer Tools offer a full Java IDE with advanced features for developing, debugging, and packaging Android apps. Using the IDE, you can develop on any available Android device or create virtual devices that emulate any hardware configuration.

1.5 billion downloads a month and growing. Get your apps in front of millions of users at Google's scale.

Open marketplace for distributing your apps

Google Play is the premier marketplace for selling and distributing Android apps. When you publish an app on Google Play, you reach the huge installed base of Android.

As an open marketplace, Google Play puts you in control of how you sell your products. You can publish whenever you want, as often as you want, and to the customers you want. You can distribute broadly to all markets and devices or focus on specific segments, devices, or ranges of hardware capabilities.

You can monetize in the way that works best for your business—priced or free, with in-app products or subscriptions—for highest engagement and revenues. You also have complete control of the pricing for your apps and in-app products and can set or change prices in any supported currency at any time.

Beyond growing your customer base, Google Play helps you build visibility and engagement across your apps and brand. As your apps rise in popularity, Google Play gives them higher placement in weekly "top" charts and rankings, and for the best apps promotional slots in curated collections.

Preinstalled on hundreds of millions of Android devices around the world, Google Play can be a growth engine for your business.

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How to edit activity tltle bar on ICS and JB (CM9/CM10/CM10.1)

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a. Decompile framework-res.apk

b. Go to framework-res folder/res/drawable-hdpi (or mdpi/xhdpi). and search *.png file with name :

- ab_bottom_solid_dark_holo.9.png
- ab_solid_dark_holo.9.png
- ab_stacked_transparent_light_holo.9.png
- ab_transparent_dark_holo.9.png
- ab_transparent_light_holo.9.png

c. replace all *.9.png file with your favorit *.9.png (Recommended resolution is 720x100 for XHDPI, or download source png for example from my theme Green Rocker CM10 on attachment)

d, Recompile

e. if you want to change too setting icon on title bar, just decompile settings.apk and go to settings/res/drawable-***dpi and change ic_launcher_settings.png and recompile.

2. How to change quick settings background on CM10.1

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a. Decompile SystemUI.apk

b. Go to SystemUI\res\drawable and open qs_tile_background.xml using notepad ++

Change this line :

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_pressed="true">
        <color android:color="#ff212121" />
    </item>
    <item>
        <color android:color="#ff161616" />
    </item>
</selector>

To :

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/qs_tile_background_pressed" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/qs_tile_background_normal" />
</selector>

c. Add source 2 *.png file to drawable-xxxxdpi folder with name (you are free to choose any image including transparent) :
- qs_tile_background_pressed
- qs_tile_background_normal

d. Recompile