Euro football Pictures - Croatia v Spain

Fernando Torres scored the winner in the side's last meeting - a friendly before the 2006 World Cup

Croatia are competing at a third successive UEFA European Championship

World and European champions Spain came into the finals on a run of 14 straight competitive victories

Spain have not missed a major finals tournament since the 1992 UEFA European Championship

Jerko Leko represented Dinamo in both their defeats to Real Madrid in the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League group stage

David Silva (left) scored for Manchester City in their 2011/12 UEFA Champions League home win against a Bayern side featuring Ivica Olić and Danijel Pranjić

Cesc Fàbregas scored twice as Arsenal knocked Dinamo Zagreb out of the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League

Cesc Fàbregas and Eduardo played together at Arsenal from 2007 to 2010

Ivan Rakitić plays against Spanish internationals on a regular basis for Sevilla

Darijo Srna faced a plethora of Spanish internationals when Shakhtar lost to 5-1 Barcelona in the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League

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Dream Homes

EURO 2012 Latest Photos

Russia dressing room

UEFA EURO 2012 Group A match 

Czech Republic dressing room

The Czech Republic dressing room before the UEFA EURO 2012 Group A match against Russia 

   

Russia dressing room

The Russian dressing room ahead of the UEFA EURO 2012 Group A match against Czech Republic 

   

Wojciech Szczesny (Poland)

Wojciech Szczesny of Poland in action during the UEFA EURO 2012 Group A match against Greece 

 

Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Greece)

Referee Carlos Velasco Carballo shows Sokratis Papastathopoulos (R) of Greece a red card during the UEFA EURO 2012 Group A match against Poland 

 

Michel Platini (UEFA President)

(L-R) Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski, UEFA President Michel Platini and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych applaud ahead of the UEFA EURO 2012 Group A match between Poland and Greece 

 

Giorgos Samaras (Greece) & Lukasz Piszczek (Poland)

Giorgos Samaras of Greece controls the ball ahead of Lukasz Piszczek of Poland during their UEFA EURO 2012 Group A match

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Robert Lewandowski (Poland)

Robert Lewandowski of Poland scores the opening goal past Kostas Chalkias of Greece during their UEFA EURO 2012 Group A match 

 

Canon photo of the day: 7 June

A man is seen playing football in front of the Rodina Monument on 7 June 2012 in Kyiv, Ukraine, ahead of the UEFA EURO 2012 tournament which kicks off in Poland tomorrow. (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

I went around Kyiv today to look for some preview pictures ahead of the opening match of UEFA EURO 2012. While visiting the Rodina Monument in Pechers'kyi Landshaftnyi Park, I managed to capture this dramatic shot of a man silhouetted alongside this amazing monument which dominates the city skyline as he played football in the park.

 

Alex is an award-winning photographer who came to Getty Images in 1997. He has covered the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Champions League final, and his work has been published in many of the world's leading publications. Alex is based in Manchester, England, and UEFA EURO 2012 will be his third UEFA European Championship with Getty Images.

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Canon photo of the day: 6 June

11 June 2008: Patrick Müller (left) and goalkeeper Diego Benaglio (right) of Switzerland compete for the ball with Arda Turan (centre) of Turkey during their UEFA EURO 2008 Group A match in Basel, Switzerland. (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images)
 
Alex Livesey: The storm clouds had been gathering around the stadium and the heavens opened during the game. You cannot leave the pitchside to seek shelter so you must prepare to keep your equipment and yourself as dry as possible whilst capturing the thrills and spills provided by the rain and puddles.

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Canon photo of the day: 5 June

18 JUNE 2008: Sweden fans show their support ahead of their UEFA EURO 2008 Group D match against Russia in Innsbruck, Austria. (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)

Alex Grimm: The UEFA European Championships provide a chance for each nation's supporters to express themselves and their country in a way they would not for home fixtures or club matches, with outlandish head gear, face paint and fancy dress. This provides the photographer with a great opportunity to capture the atmosphere before and during games and the Scandanavian countries are often the most extroverted and extreme – as demonstrated by these Swedish fans during UEFA EURO 2008.

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Android Holds High-quality 3D Apps

Android Holds High-quality 3D Apps

Good news for android developers that Google has increased the maximum app size limit from 50 MB to 4 GB (Huge update regarding app size). Google has explained in Android Developer Blog that android app's size will still limited to 50MB and it is to secure the on device storage, but developers will be allowed to add or develop 2 complimentary expansion files up to 2 GB each. Total size of the app will be displayed to users in Android Market and expansion files will be allowed to download automatically on newer devices but on older devices, expansion files will be downloaded when the app runs first time. It will great addition by Android because it will avoid the users to download the updates from non Android Market sites, which are more then 50MB in size. This will provide Google a great control over privacy and quality of content.

Now developers are able to develop high quality 3D games or apps which require more space. With the increased size of app, now developers are expecting more advanced devices in terms of process power, memory and graphics quality, that's why we can see a number of quad-core devices are being announced, capable of handling console-quality gaming.





To catchup more details about this development from Android, hit Android Developer Blog at this link

Via Android Developers Blog