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So we just launched a new notifications API for FlyScreen, allowing Android apps to plug into our awesome lock screen and broadcast their notifications up to the top layer. We launched this with our good friends at Kik, who have implemented it in their upcoming Android release.

We’re looking forward to seeing the great integrations that you all can build! FlyScreen is a great platform to serve notifications, and will drive a lot of exposure and usage down to your app. Any Android developer is welcome to sign up at www.superflyapi.com, and we’ll be opening it up very soon!

-Team FlyScreen

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We have a major release of FlyScreen 3.0 for Android coming very soon. Now we’d like to get a group of awesome Android beta testers to give it a good run through to help us squash bugs, fix whatever needs to be fixed still, etc. So if you have an Android phone and love providing awesome and creative feedback, please sign up!

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Cool!

Nice little tip from the Appsfire blog- looks like our ol’ smiley icon was on stage when Product Management Director for Android, Hugo Barra, was presenting a new milestone for the Android market (over 200,000 available apps)! We’re up there with some greats- foursquare, Layar, Pandora, Skype, CBS news, Qik, Flixster, and many more. So humbled to have been included (hope it wasn’t a mistake ), even if it was just our icon.

Thanks Hugo and Google!

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We’re happy to announce that FlyScreen for Android Tablets is out!

Go get it here (now!): https://market.android.com/details?id=com.FlyScreen.tablet

So huge thanks to Scott at Androidguys.com for covering the launch. We’re huge fans of AndroidGuys, and remember way back when they launched (plus, we don’t disagree with the last paragraph!)

FlyScreen for Android tablets brings you the awesome lock screen action from our phone version, to your big tablet screen. But that’s not all! We have built in some awesome ambient modes that you’ve seen on FlyScreen for iPhone! (and these ones are free!). Included in this version is Aquarium, Airplane!, and Star Crawl.

FlyScreen for Android tablets supports Android homescreen widgets natively, and they look absolutely fantastic on these big screens.

We’d love to get your feedback as always, so please drop us a line @flyscreen or feedback@myflyscreen.com

Enjoy!

-Team FlyScreen

This is a hot update. Before we even explain, go get it now. Trust me. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.flydroid.FlyScreen

Great, now that you’ve downloaded the latest and greatest, we can move on. So what’s new in FlyScreen for Android v2.12?

IT LOCKS THE VOLUME AND HOME KEYS!

Finally, right? Right. When your screen is off, the side volume keys and home button will not wake up the phone. That means no more pocket accidents! And when FlyScreen is shown, pressing the home button will default you back to the old lock screen, so you are totally protected. FlyScreen is finally a full lock screen.

Because it sits on top of your old one, you may see the old one flash for a second when you unlock. Also, because it’s a timing thing, if your phone is a but slower or has a custom UI built into it, you may see some lag. But hey, still better than nothing right?

We have also upgraded the look of our reader view and gallery! Here are some pics:

We hope you enjoy! We just pushed out our iPhone version, but are full speed ahead on Android too! Don’t forget to drop us some feedback on Twitter and Facebook!

-Team FlyScreen

We are so excited to finally launch the first version of FlyScreen for iPhone!! (and thanks TC for the coverage!) Based on our awesome Android lock screen app, FlyScreen for iPhone takes a different twist. You get the same beautiful widget view, easily sliding between your favourite content. You also get something new, something we call Ambient Modes, which is a great way to keep up to date on your customized news, without too much hassle or interaction. It’s more subtle, in the background, with the options to click through and engage at your leisure.

The first version has our Classic Ambient Theme Pack for sale. Themes included:

• Aquarium

  

• Airplane!

  

• Paper

  

• Dashboard

  

• and Itamar’s favourite, Star Crawl!

  

We hope you love FlyScreen, and most importantly, we love your feedback! Please let us know your thoughts, we read all the feedback email and take it to heart. So please reach out to use by email: feedback@myflyscreen.com, Twitter, and/or Facebook!

Hey FlyScreenation!

We just released v2.9 into the Android market last week, and we’re knee-deep in 3.0 work! User feedback has always been very important to us here at FlyScreen, so we’ve created a really quick Google form to collect feedback for what we should include in v3.0. Not only for features, but for things we need to fix too. We’d like to hear from you guys what your main concerns are and see how/if we can help.

The form can be found here!

Thanks everyone! We really appreciate the feedback!

-Team FlyScreen

(Special thanks to FlyScreenation member @punkmanj for finding this clip and sending to us! Tshirt is on it’s way buddy!)

Thanks Leo, glad to have you on board!

-Team FlyScreen


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Oh yes, it’s coming soon! And it won’t be jailbroken, so you know there will be an awesome twist…

And now, we’re looking for some great alpha testers! Specifically, people interested in providing us great feedback as we polish up the new experience (and be warned, @hilzfuld has set the bar high). We expect this stage to last for a few weeks, with updates throughout.

If you are interested in participating, please sign up here:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEtLbmcwSTdleGJGQ3ZWTlR1MzBKNlE6MQ

Thanks!

-Team FlyScreen

We’re excited to release FlyScreen for Android v2.5 today! This release features a pretty big redesign for us, including a more unified look for our RSS powered widgets (for branded and unbranded) and use of the new Android menu system (how awesome, right??).

Enjoy the screenshots, and go download FlyScreen now!