Krueger student publishes first paid app to Android Market

This year at Krueger Middle School, students in Josh Beck's advanced programming class have been learning to develop applications for the Android mobile platform.

Student Christian Cruz (shown right) is the first student to publish an application to the marketplace, charging 99 cents per download. He published his application, which is an animated wallpaper, on Tuesday, Apr. 13. Within the first week, he generated more than $50 in sales.

This week Google announced that it is seeing 60,000 new Android phone activations every day. Over the next year, it is expected that there will be between 15-20 million new Android users.

Posted on April 21, 2010

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Very, very cool.

A mouse-bot like this would look awesome on my desk. Unfortunately my wife, Dawn, made me get rid of a lot of old computer peripherals and parts last summer when she cleaned out the garage, including all my old mice. I now only have one extra usb mouse and one extra ps/2 mouse. Two mice won't make a very good mouse-bot.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Brad Stevens is content to keep coaching the Butler way.

The 33-year-old coach, who came within a buzzer-beating shot of winning the NCAA men's basketball championship, signed a 12-year deal Thursday that extends through the 2021-22 season.

This is the third trend I've seen in the last ten days that indicates the Android platform and devices are seeing a big surge in adoption and usage right now. The first was a report from AdMob that ads served to Android apps saw a huge increase over the last few months. The second was a report that the number of Android devices being used on the major wireless carriers had seen a jump since November from 3 to 9 percent while Palm and Windows Mobile devices had declined and new Blackberry and IPhone adoption had remained relatively flat. Now we have news that the number of apps in the Android Market nearly doubled between February and March.

It looks we're seeing the beginning of the Android platform and devices jumping the gap between early adopters to mainstream mobile device users.