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.
Scott…
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…
Wasn’t a new (minor) version of Android expected at Google I/O? It didn’t appear, but there’s an interesting comment piece on GIGaom.com that bids to explain why – How Google cleverly improved Android without releasing Android 4.3 at Google I/O
Basically, they argue, by…
More Android-related announcements from Google I/O 2013, the company’s annual developer event…
We highlighted Google Play games services yesterday, but new location services also form part of the same Google Play services release (version 3.1).
The new location APIs are intended to make it easier to…
I wrote recently about localised variations of the Samsung Galaxy S4 – how the American version, for example, is a different phone to the South Korean one, in terms of its components such as the radio – and here comes another, more formal Nexus variation…
Out of Google I/O 2013 comes…
As was expected, Google I/O has seen the official unveiling of Google Play game services. Gaming is a major element of mobile usage these days and Google is trying to bolster Android’s support in this area, for example enabling four simultaneous auto-matched players together in a game…
Another announcement from Google I/O 2013, the company’s anual developer conference:
Today we are excited to expand Google’s education offering by combining the ease and portability of Nexus tablets with highly engaging educational content. Through this new program educators will be able to manage tablets and discover…
Wow, I didn’t expect this one. Google has announced its own IDE for developing Android apps, Android Studio. The system is free and is already available to try, but note this is as an early access preview (caveat emptor).
It’s the first major announcement to come out of…