Topic: android

Google’s Jack & Jill Android compilers, Intel-powered Google Glass, and an enterprise Big Data analytics report—SD Times news digest: Dec. 1, 2014

Google is developing two new compilers, codenamed Jack and Jill, to replace the current javac and dex compilers used in its Android mobile operating system. According to a blog post from Saikoa, a Belgian mobile development software company that discovered build tools labeled Jack and Jill in the latest Android SDK, the tools will streamline … continue reading

Top 5 projects trending on GitHub this week

Welcome to a special Thanksgiving edition of the Top 5 trending GitHub projects. There are still five projects and they’re still open source, but this week… you get them on a Wednesday! “Hooray!” yell all our loyal GitHub-loving readers in overjoyed unison. That’s totally what’s happening right now. Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving! #1: Interact.js Interact.js is … continue reading

Android KitKat continues to grow

The KitKat version of the Android operating system accounts for half of all Android versions in use, according to statistics released by application performance monitoring software maker Crittercism. The statistics offer insight into such metrics as crashes by device, OS versions, and carrier delays by country, and were gleaned in a survey of Crittercism’s customers. … continue reading

castAR, Android Studio, Semantic UI 1.0, and an IoT kit for Raspberry Pi—SD Times news digest: Nov. 24, 2014

It has been a little more than a year since castAR raised US$1 million on Kickstarter for its augmented reality glasses, and now the company is finally ready to start shipping its first pair. The glasses will be shipped to early castAR backers. In addition, Technical Illusions, the company that developed castAR, will be in … continue reading

Android Developer Conference shows expanding products

In an exposition that was more reminiscent of early PC conferences than a developer event, the Android Developer Conference showed off numerous innovative products. For developers, tools on display offered new ways to monetize, test and monitor apps. Hardware makers were also on hand to offer help for designers working on-next generation devices and applications. … continue reading

Google shows developers Android possibilities

When Android was young in 2008, every developer working on an application for the platform was taking a huge risk. But for some early adopters, that risk yielded massive rewards. Today, there are more than 1 billion active Android users worldwide, and building applications for this blockbuster platform is no longer such a great risk. … continue reading

Google releases Android Auto APIs, Senate votes down FREEDOM Act—SD Times news digest: Nov. 19, 2014

Google has released the first APIs for Android Auto, opening up third-party development for its in-car operating system. The two APIs support audio apps and messaging apps, allowing developers to integrate content into Android Auto for users to browse, play back audio from car and messaging apps that receive incoming notifications, read messages aloud, and … continue reading

Microsoft offers major tool upgrade for mobile-first, cloud-first world

Updates to Visual Studio, Visual Studio Online, Azure and the .NET Framework were announced at a New York City event today that was live-streamed to an estimated 250,000 developers around the world. Public previews of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 are being made available today—along with new cross-platform tools in Visual Studio 2015—while .NET … continue reading

Google releases tools for developing Android apps in C/C++

Google has announced version 1.0 of fplutil, a set of small libraries and tools used to develop C and C++ Android apps. Fplutil comes out of Google’s Fun Propulsion Labs, a team devoted to improving gaming on Android and other platforms. Fplutil includes: • Build_all_android: An all-in-one build script that enables developers to build, install, … continue reading

Electronic Frontier Foundation: APIs can’t be copyrighted

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has legally weighed in on the ongoing software copyright dispute between Google and Oracle, and its message is clear: APIs cannot be copyrighted. The nonprofit digital rights organization has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, signed by 77 computer scientists and legal experts, arguing that the latest appellate court … continue reading

Deep linking an Android app

To weave a more intuitive mobile Web, individual companies and developers must navigate the various technologies and hurdles in forging those intra-app connections. As senior Android manager at online ticketing platform Eventbrite, Juan Gomez was integral in implementing mobile deep links in the Eventbrite Android app over the past year and a half. He spoke … continue reading

SD Times news digest: November 7, 2014—Google’s successful Google Play app guide, auto-correct for programmers, Confluent: an Apache Kafka real-time data startup

Google’s guide for successful Google Play apps Google is releasing a guide to provide developers with best practices and tools to help their apps be successful on Google Play. The guide, “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play,” will be split up into seven sections: publishing on Google Play; quality; discoverability and reach; engagement … continue reading

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