Android Atlas Weekly 4: Flash for Android is officially here (podcast)

Flash for Android is released, AT&T's love/hate robot relationship, and a new slate of Motorola Droid offerings. Plus voice navigation tips, and a review of Google Voice. All that and more on this week's edition of the Android Atlas Weekly.

Stories

• Flash Launches on Android

• Droid X Twitter Feed

• Droid 2 Gets a Surprise Hand-On

• ios4 vs Android Multi-tasking

• Android Team "Laser Focused" On The User Experience For Next Release

• AT&T announces Samsung Galaxy Captivate

• ...and AT&T proceedes to neuter the Android OS in the process.

• SlingPlayer Mobile launches on Android phones

• Google Maps for Android adds train schedules, live Places info, more Latitude features

• How may people are on which version of Android OS?

• Google releases teaser video about Google TV

App of the week

• Google Voice (Download it at Download.com)
  

Tip of the week
Voice commands on Android 2.0+

• Long press the Magnifying glass softbutton on your Android phone.

• Say "Navigate to ADDRESS/CITY/LANDMARK"

• Say "Map ADDRESS/CITY/LANDMARK"

• Say "Call NAME HOME/MOBILE/WORK"

• Say "pretty much anything else" = Google Search

E-mail (androidatlasweekly@cnet.com)
Hey Folks,

First, Great job! I'm an avid CNET (and Android) fan and am very excited about this droid specific podcast.

I just finished listening to episode 2 and heard your discussion about how difficult it is to copy/paste with the virtual keyboard. I don't know if this works globally or just on specific apps but try this:

1. Open up the stock email app and compose a new email.
2. Type a few characters in the subject line and then long-press.

On my MotoDroid running v2.1 i get a context menu with [Select all, Select text, Cut all, Copy all, Past, and Input method.]

It seems to work with all of the typical apps I use: messaging, corporate mail, etc. A long-press on the web-browser search bar gives you a ""copy all"" but they call it ""Copy page url"" But you're absolutely right about selecting text from a webpage, that's a bit of work.

I find the long-press intuitive and very nicely-done and wondered if you were aware since no-one mentioned it in contrast to the keyboard shortcuts ... (which I didn't know about and very much appreciate the tip!)

Thanks for the great show!
Jason in Spokane, Washington