Android Phones and Applications

The other day I had to sign up for a new podcast. I usually do it through Apple iTunes as I am familiar with the interface and site design (as any other iPod or iPhone user). In order to subscribe, I opened the Store tab and searched for the required podcast. While I was doing all this, I saw a link to the AppStore. And I started to subconsciously compare Apple’s AppStore to the Android Market. I realised how easy-to-use and consistent AppStore is – it doesn’t matter whether you access it from your iPhone or notebook computer – user experience stays the same. Android’s web store, on the other hand, is average at best. Why is that?

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As you may know, Android uses specific desktop background images. Images are made wider than the screen resolution, so that extra parts could be displayed when changing virtual desktops. In order to set your own favourite image as a desktop background, you will need to find out some details: what the width of the image should be and where should it be stored. Clearly, not everybody will want to do the additional research and play with parameters. If you do not want to waste your time looking for these details and adjusting images, you can download Backgrounds, a software available on the Android Market.

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