New Android Market update. Works fine on the SanFran

[Guest fredewis]

guys dont you think the market main home looks a bit messy and paked. i mean that carusel seems to slow it down

[Guest Sebastian404]

This is what Honeycomb looks like, I called it.

The general feeling around the office was that it had a drunken one night stand with Xbox Live..

Remember when Google hired the UI guy who used to work for Palm? Android 2.3 is the result. Wouldn't surprise me if we see further improvements in other apps too.

By the looks of things, we are moving away from a colourful look, into a more sombre 'n sophisticated palette, lots of shaded grays and blacks with green highlights. I do like the way that if you're synced with a Google account, your status bar icons go from white to green.

Think of Gingerbread as more of SnowLeopard, lots of effort has been expanded on the internals, and the externals just got a quick make over.

I have to admit I LOVE my PalmPre, WebOS was a great first effort, WebOS 2.0 is getting there, shame they have to make the devices out of string and birds nests.. I'm on my 5th Pre in 10 months..... and a lot of that is down to Matias, I can only really see good things to come.

[Guest Simon O]

I do like the way that if you're synced with a Google account, your status bar icons go from white to green.

Aha, I wondered why the icons in the screen shots are green but the icons in the SDK framework are white. Makes sense now.

[Guest factro]

My ROM is based on the old leaked beta ROM so that's probably another bug.

But I still likes your than new alpha..:)

[Guest nick_sub]

Am I the first one to get the new Market? Just went to the Market now and it has automatically updated. Time to have a play...

Edit: Forgot to say this is on 2.1 (MCRr4).

Edited December 17, 2010 by nick_sub

[Guest nick_sub]

Well it looks a bit smarter. I think the tab-less apps pages is a slight improvement as the information is arranged in the order in which you would tend to read things anyway. I don't like having to expand the description though.

[Guest rayraven]

Keeps force closing for me,any tips??

[Guest nick_sub]

Keeps force closing for me,any tips??

No, sorry. Mine is fine.

[Guest heavyduty00]

um i have this new market but im on 2.1??! custom rom

but I got phone 2 days ago and i had this market...with stock orange rom, are you sure its 2.2

[Guest nick_sub]

um i have this new market but im on 2.1??! custom rom

but I got phone 2 days ago and i had this market...with stock orange rom, are you sure its 2.2

OK so I'm not the first one with 2.1 to get it! :) It's seems it's available for 2.1 and 2.2 now.

[Guest Sebastian404]

if you have the new market place, have a look in /data/app/ there should be a Vending.apk ?

you should upload that somewhere :)

[Guest leetron1]

if you have the new market place, have a look in /data/app/ there should be a Vending.apk ?

you should upload that somewhere :)

Paul posted this link a few days ago>>whoopee

This one for 2.1..Look in this post for original & other comments..

Edited December 17, 2010 by leetron1

[Guest Sebastian404]

Paul posted this link a few days ago>>whoopee

This one for 2.1..Look in this post for original & other comments..

Thats the not OTA version tho... which is what most people are waiting for....?

[Guest mELIANTE]

Mine just updated OTA. It's "perty" :)

[Guest extremedigital]

Strange one.....

My OLED Blade updated itself to the new market 3 days ago, However my wife's LCD Blade still hasn't....

Just wonder if anyone has managed to force the update or is it a matter of wait and see

[Guest Len Ash]

Strange one.....

My OLED Blade updated itself to the new market 3 days ago, However my wife's LCD Blade still hasn't....

Just wonder if anyone has managed to force the update or is it a matter of wait and see

Seems to invite you to do it... at various times. Probably load-sharing. Keep logging in periodically...

[Guest markusj]

Mine updated today.

Nothing special, just the looks...

And it made my system crash & reboot. Hopefully, it won't happen again.

(Finnish Fillyjonk 2.1 RLS2)

[Guest extremedigital]

Seems to invite you to do it... at various times. Probably load-sharing. Keep logging in periodically...

Thanks, yeah that makes sense

[Guest Len Ash]

Mine updated today.

Nothing special, just the looks...

And it made my system crash & reboot. Hopefully, it won't happen again.

(Finnish Fillyjonk 2.1 RLS2)

I had several problems with FF (OLED Blade), including occasional random reboots, and relented and went back to the Hungarian BladeVillain by Freakers, which has been generally very stable. And WiFi seems far more stable. Both have excellent Battery life.... just make sure you turn off A-GPS!!!!!!!!

Edited December 17, 2010 by Len Ash

[Guest Treacles]

I restarted my SF to see if it would update the Market place and it did, running slowly though? Im on MCR R4 with an OLED

[Guest nick_sub]

if you have the new market place, have a look in /data/app/ there should be a Vending.apk ?

you should upload that somewhere :)

I have a vending.apk in /system/app but not in data/app. The file date is 2008 though. Is that what you were after?

[Guest Sebastian404]

I have a vending.apk in /system/app but not in data/app. The file date is 2008 though. Is that what you were after?

Thats the version that come with the firmware on your device, the version it downloads will end up in /data/app/

[Guest nick_sub]

Thats the version that come with the firmware on your device, the version it downloads will end up in /data/app/

OK. My /data/ folder is empty.

[Guest Treacles]

OK. My /data/ folder is empty.

Same with mine...

[Guest Ralph Martin]

When you guys say it comes OTA, do you specifically mean from the phone company? Or can it get automagically sent to you via WiFi?