New Android distribution numbers are out. Gingerbread accounts for 59% of all devices, while ICS reached its first milestone: one per cent. Meanwhile, Google has also revealed Bouncer, their Android security service targeting malware apps.

Our Wiki has a new tutorial in store today, explaining you how we can customize the EditText widget in Android. EditText is one of the most used widgets in Android programming - to learn how to use it check out our new tutorial in the Wiki.

This year's edition of the Droidcon Berlin is about to kick off March 14. The program for the two-day Android conference is now online. For those who want to mingle with likeminded Android developers, Berlin offers the perfect location for mobile startups.

Apple has become the leading client PC vendor worldwide. That is if you count the iPad as a PC. In Q4 2011, Apple has shipped over 15 million iPads and five millions Macs, which makes up 17% of the total 120 million PC shipped globally.

Have you ever watched "Who wants to be a millionaire?" Making fun of the intellectually underperforming candidates? Ever imagined how you would fly through the questions to win the ultimate prize? Well thanks to thoughtful developers you can re-live the experience yourself. The "Who wants 7 millions" app is a conversion of the quiz to the Windows Phone platform. Bring your Slumdog-Millionaire-like knowledge along and sit on the famous chair in the spotlight. Only without the spotlight. A chair is also not required. Just your Windows Phone device.

Motorola announced today, it will sell the RAZR in a Developer Edition with unlocked bootloader. If you are EU-based, you can pre-order it already. US developers will have to wait a little longer.

Distimo had a closer look at two things known to boost app sales (and ideally app revenue): discounting your app and being featured in the Apple App Store or the Android Market. The study found that this is generally true, but not to the same degree for all stores and categories. Sometimes, it even leads to loss.

Are you interested in doing WP7 development? Do you need a testing device? We've got three HTC Surround you can borrow. If you successfully program two new apps and publish them in the Marketplace, you can even keep it!

27 million tablets were shipped in the fourth quarter of last year. Out of those, 15.4 million - and thus the largest part - were iPads. More newsworthy: 10.5 million were Android tablets, which means Android is on iOS heels with 39% to 58% of the market.

The Google App Inventor allows creating Android apps without the need for coding knowledge. Set free by Google, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) took over - and plans to release the MIT Public App Inventor Service by April. If you want to use it now already, you can set up your own server using JAR files provided by MIT.

iOS and Android are the two big mobile operating systems - and most developers support both. However, while there is currently a slight advantage for iOS, this will reverse within the next 12 months, according to the analyst company Ovum.

The Windows Phone Marketplace has grown by 10,000 items in the last 25 days, reaching a total of over 60,000. These are numbers published by All About Windows Phone, indicating that the growth of WP apps has accelerated compared to the months before.

App developers working in or for Austria can submit their apps to two different contests now: the Apps4Linz Prize of the Open Commons Region Linz and the Mobile Award Austria (MAwA) by the Economic Chamber of Austria (WKO). One of them even offer cash prizes of up to € 3,000.

Our member Martin Suchan has recently been developing an application for automatic photo shooting in Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. He shared with us an article describing the most interesting challenges one will most likely encounter when creating apps for WP7 and how to solve them successfully.

The U.S. government's National Security Agency (NSA) has released a first version of their SE (Security Enhanced) Android. The modified version of the Google mobile OS is designed to offer more security in critical areas. The project is based on SELinux, a similar initiative for the desktop.