Topic: android

SD Times news digest: July 30, 2014—The Nokia Z Android Launcher, Windows Phone 8.1 update, Password protector, and Google’s Startup Launch

Nokia enters post-device future with Nokia Z Android Launcher The Nokia Z Android Launcher, a home screen replacement for Android phones that learns and evolves based on usage patterns, has released its first major update and opened its pre-beta to download and test the launcher. Developed by the Nokia Technologies Group, a separate entity from … continue reading

SD Times news digest: July 28, 2014—Samsung Z Tizen phone delays, HiVE encryption, a wearable programming toy, and EMMS 4.0

Samsung indefinitely postpones launch of Tizen-powered Samsung Z It’ll be a bit longer before we see a Samsung phone running Tizen OS. Samsung announced it is delaying sales of the Samsung Z smartphone, the company’s first device running Tizen, the rival mobile platform to Android and iOS. Samsung canceled a developer conference in Russia where … continue reading

SD Times news digest: July 16, 2014—Android development course, NSA’s cybersecurity program, and JFrog’s series B funding

Google crash course for Android development Google is offering an online training course for experienced developers new to Android or mobile. The course, Developing Android Apps: Android Fundamentals, will be available through Udacity and provides step-by-step training to building an Android app, and best practices for mobile development in general. “With Android expanding rapidly into … continue reading

SD Times news digest: July 14, 2014 – Bountysource, Apportals, Internet of Things programs, and more

Bountysource, a crowdfunding platform for open-source software The popularity of crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo has finally extended to developers with Bountysource, a crowdfunding platform for open-source software.   Bountysource allows open-source developers or any other community members to offer a “bounty” to developers to fix a particular bug or help develop a … continue reading

SD Times news digest: July 11, 2014 – Kids programming robots, Amazon wants to test drones in US & new AWS web tools

Kids programming robots to learn new skills With just a smart tablet and Angry Birds, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are making it possible for kids to program robots. The researchers have paired an Android tablet paired with a small humanoid robot, and kids are teaching it how to play Angry Birds just by dragging … continue reading

SD Times news digest: July 9, 2014—Temporary workaround for Android Wear and a browser-based IDE

Google offers temporary workaround for Android Wear bugGoogle’s wearable platform, Android Wear, is missing a way for users to install paid apps on their devices. Users can see the apps in the store but can’t install them. To rectify this problem, Google has issued a temporary workaround to enable paid apps on Android Wear. Until … continue reading

SD Times news digest: July 7, 2014—Xiki and Oculus Connect

Oculus debuts its first developer conference, Xiki Kickstarts upgrade and global tablet sales will surpass PC sales in 2015 … continue reading

Zeichick’s Take: Android is everywhere in a multiscreen universe

Android is the spearhead of Google’s plans for cars, smart devices, TV and more … continue reading

SD Times Blog: Reading between the lines at Google I/O

Keynote surprises with DIY virtual reality, and telling omissions of Google Glass and Google+ … continue reading

Inside NativeScript: Telerik’s new cross-platform framework

Native mobile framework will allow developers to build Android, iOS and Windows Phone apps solely in JavaScript … continue reading

Android L debuts at Google I/O

Operating system features a new design approach, 5,000 new APIs, and improved performance and battery life … continue reading

Critical security problem found in Google Play

A team of computer scientists made a large-scale measurement of Google Play and found thousands of secret keys … continue reading

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