After launching apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android phones, Tamil language daily, Dinamalar has now launched a news app for Android tablets (download). The app has been developed by Softcraft Systems, and allows users to access updated news content from the publication on any Android Tablet. Dinamalar claims that since its launch in January, the tablet app has received 3,500 downloads. We've seen that a lot of Android app developers have not released tablet optimised versions of their apps, since Android based Tablets have not been able to garner the same level of popularity that the iPad has. The Dinamalar app also includes ad banners. Issues: We tried using the app on an Acer Iconia tablet running Android 3.2 - Honeycomb. The app did not crash during our testing, but became unresponsive at times and took a considerably long time to load pages. Also, we do not know if this was due to the 7 inch screen size of our tablet, but text as well as other interface elements appeared rather minuscule. This has hampered usability to a major extent. We don't know if the problem is related to this particular device or is being experienced by other users as well. Do let us know, if it's rendering fine on your Android tablet. Interface & Features: The app supports both portrait and landscape view on the tablet, and the header features tickers for cricket score, stock market updates and weather, which unlike the Dinamalar iPad app do not expand and give a 'coming soon' message,…
