Samsung is launching its Smart App Challenge 2013, a (global) compo for the best Galaxy S4 apps. Specifically, the apps must make use of the Samsung Chord SDK, “which allows app developers to build local information-sharing applications without detailed knowledge of networking”.
Features of the real-time info sharing…
Let’s file this one under our Android Applications in Focus series – Google has updated its Google Drive cloud storage system, in app form, for Android.
Bascially Google Drive lets you store all your files in one place (on Google servers), so you can access them online from anywhere with…
AMD has previously shown no interest in Android, avowedly concentrating on Windows 8 for its tablets, but could things be changing?
Agam Shah has written a piece on PC World outlining some positive noises emanating from AMD around Android. Windows is still the priority, but the door could be open…
The VisionMobile blog is worth keeping an eye on and the analysts have just produced an interesting analysis of Android and iOS ecosystem economics. See A Game of Ecosystems: Measuring ecosystem performance
How do ecosystem economics shape the mobile competitive landscape, and what are the key performance indicators, and how…
A Swiss wireless module supplier has introduced a range of LTE modules on a small format: TOBY-L1. Made by U-blox, they are designed for incorporating in tablets, mobile routers and M2M applications such as digital signage, mobile health, and security systems.
Two versions are currently available: TOBY-L110…
Finding the time is the real problem…. How can you catch up with all the info and announcements generated by Google I/O 2013?
Well, as done previoulsy, all sessions have been recorded and are being posted to Google Developers Live (GDL) for our perusal at a conventient time.
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Thanks to The Register for flagging an interesting looking Android development from Intel. The chip giant has announced Beacon Mountain, a development environment for Android,
For both ARM and Intel’s own Atom processor-based devices, the suite supports Android v4.1 and 4.2 (supporting API levels 17+), and…
Just to complete our roundup from Google I/O 2013, here is another bit of Android functionality that has been added. (Yes, to Google Play, you guessed.)
The company has added support for both beta testing and staged rollouts, with the idea that developers can get feedback on their new…