Software/Apps Articles
Google Play Apps & Games publication on medium.com was initiated early 2017. The publication is geared towards developers to help them “discover best practices and insights to grow successful apps and games businesses on Google Play.” The publication gives tips, trends and insights, industry thoughts and monetization ideas app and game developers. In a developers journey…
With the arrival of Android Oreo, many new security features have been introduced. Among the security enhancements, “making it safer to get apps, dropping insecure network protocols, providing more user control over identifiers, hardening the kernel, making Android easier to update, all the way to doubling the Android Security Rewards payouts.” A new hardware feature, Android…
With Google Search and Maps you can now determine your favorite restaurant’s wait time.
Six months ago, Android announced the programming language, Kotlin as part of Android’s family of languages for use in Android apps. Since its introduction the number of apps in the Google Play store using Kotlin has doubled: “Developers from Pinterest, to Expedia, to Basecamp — and many others — are finding their use of Kotlin…
Defined as a “large update focused on accelerating your app development on Android,” the new release of Android Studio 3.0 includes three significant features: “A new suite of app profiling tools to quickly diagnose performance issues, support for the Kotlin programming language, and a new set of tools and wizards to accelerate your development on the latest…
Google recently signed an agreement with HTC, “a leader in consumer electronics, that will fuel even more product innovation in the years ahead.” Google has already collaborated with HTC previously, on the Google Pixel Smartphone. Also for the last ten years, both companies worked on the products, HTC Dream, Nexus one (2010) and Nexus 9 (2014). As part…
“Android Oreo superpowers, coming to a device near you.” Android 8.0 Oreo has finally arrived out of the cookie jar development training camp and is now “a superhero to have by your side.” I love Oreos, but this Oreo does more than crunch. Picture-in-picture allows you to see two apps at once. Notifications are now under control…
Thanks to power users feedback coming from the Windows Insider Program, the new high end edition of Windows 10 Pro will come “with unique support for server grade PC hardware and is designed to meet demanding needs of mission critical and compute intensive workloads.” Increasing performance and reliability is the goal of Windows 10 Pro…