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New Key Ring Features

Hi everyone, we released an update today with a couple of new features.  You can now configure the background color  to either be “light / white” or “dark / black”.  Personally, I prefer the white background.  It looks better with the blue in my opinion.  The great thing is you can change the color at any time from the Key Ring home screen by selecting “Menu” > “Settings” > “Application Theme”.  In addition we have also fixed the brightness setting bug and completely removed the annoying brightness warning pop up.  You can now save a different brightness setting for each individual card by selecting a card to view > “Menu” > “Adjust Brightness” > make adjustment then “Save”. If you like this update you’re really going some of the other stuff our team is working on…. stay tuned :)

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WireFly Reviews Key Ring

I just ran across a nice review of Key Ring created by the folks at WireFly.net.  Check it out!

Android Developers, Check This Out…

 The Problem.  If you’re an android developer, you probably realize the value of being able to test your code on multiple android devices.  The problem is, buying every new android phone released just isn’t economical.  Here at Froogloid we have 2 G1’s, 1 MyTouch, 1 DROID and 1 Nexus one which helps us cover several of our testing needs, but certainly not all.  There are tons of other android devices out there such as the Hero, Moment, Cliq, Galaxy, Eris, Behold II etc.  To test these devices I used to have to do what I referred to as the “wireless carrier 500″.  I would literally drive to a T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon store to physically test each device.  As you can imaging this is very time consuming, not to mention the retail associates think I’m crazy!  Once I told them what I was doing everyone was pretty cool about it and many would start asking questions about our apps / android development.  As much as I love showing off our products, this process is wildly inefficient.  More »

DailySmartPhone.com Key Ring Review

Happy belated New Year everyone!  I thought I’d kick off our first 2010 post with latest Key Ring review from DailySmartPhone.com.  Thanks Mitch for the very informative review!

Interview with Wired Magazine ~ Don’t be Discouraged Developers!

I had the opportunity to participate in an interview with Priya Ganapati from Wired magazine late last week regarding fragmentation in the android marketplace.  Priya did a phenomenal job writing the piece, but after reading it I could see how some may take our point of view regarding android out of context.  So, I thought I’d provide a bit more context here. 

First off, we are not anti-android and by no means do we want to intimidate others from getting involved in android mobile application development.  We were very early adopters More »

PCworld.com Rates Key Ring as a Top Android App!

At Froogloid we love publicity!  With all the great android phones being released lately; HERO, ERIS, DROID, CLIQ, MOMENT, etc…, many of the top technology sites have been taking notice of the great apps available via the android platform.  Well, I’m pleased to say that PCworld has rated Key Ring as a top 10 app for android users!   More »

T-Mobile Recommends Key Ring!

I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email from T-Mobile USA this morning letting Froogloid know that they have recommended our Key Ring Reward Cards app to all android G1 users.   Sweet huh?  We’ve been working with T-Mobile team for quite some time and have been anxiously waiting to find out what they had planned re: Key Ring marketing.  We very excited about More »

Attn DROID 2.0 Key Ring, a2b, and CowPotato Users

Hey everyone, I’ve received several emails asking why our apps can’t be found on the new Motorola DROID.  In short, we prepped ours apps for the 2.0 release earlier this week using the android emulator (phone simulator in development environment), we compiled and released all of our apps for 2.o.  However, when I visited a Verizon Wireless store yesterday I was unpleasantly surprised to find several bugs in each of our apps on 2.0/DROID that were not found while testing using a virtual device.  So, instead of leaving inferior products on the market we decided to pull them off until they could be fixed.  The good news is More »