From the Android Developer documentation: Significant changes in Android 3.0 included: Deprecation of navigation hardware keys (Back, Menu, Search, Home) in favor of handling navigation via virtual controls (Back, Home, Recents). Robust pattern for the use of menus in action bars. Android 4.0 brings these changes for tablets to the phone platform. And the HTC […]
Facebook has officially announced Facebook Home. From The Verge: Home is a family of Facebook apps that overhauls your entire device, turning it into a Facebook phone. An app called Coverfeed overhauls the homescreen and the lockscreen, giving you updates on what your friends are doing without you having to launch an app, or even […]
From CNET: Apple’s iOS browser captured 61.79 percent of all mobile browser Web traffic seen by Net Applications in March. That was a healthy rise from the 55.41 percent tracked in February. What does this tell us? What it tell me is that all those Android tablets that were sold over the holiday period are […]
The New York Times: Facebook will introduce a special version of Google’s Android software system next week that is modified to put the social network front and center on a smartphone. The software will debut on a handset made by HTC, according to a Facebook employee and another person who were briefed on the announcement. […]
Having asked the question a few days go, are Samsung copying a rumoured Apple device, it seems as if a number of other companies have jumped on that particular bandwagon. Reportedly, Google’s Android team are working on a watch, as are LG. The Google rumour is of particular note as it would point to Google […]
Evernote CTO Dave Engberg: …Evernote is seeing increasing usage of its Windows Phone app — and more important, that people on that platform use it quite often and buy extra services. “The average revenue per user is more than it is for Android.” He called Windows Phone revenue “modest, but worth the effort” and said […]
It’s not always a nice surprise when you’re expecting one thing and are then presented with another, but that’s exactly how we feel having discovered that the new Samsung Galaxy S4 will be coming to the UK sans fancy octa-core processor and instead offer up a somewhat less inspiring quad-core chip. via Recombu. So if […]
To some extent, Samsung is the victim of its own success. The Galaxy S III was a runaway hit, to such an extent that the Galaxy S4 was one of the most hotly-anticipated devices of the year. Now sure, it’s unfair — and unrealistic — to expect a technological revolution every 12 months, but Samsung […]
Google announced a pretty big change in it’s Android business today. Google CEO Larry Page has just announced that Andy Rubin, the godfather of Android, will no longer lead the project as he moves on to start another project at Google. Taking over Android will be Sundar Pichai, who was the senior vice president of Chrome the […]
As you might have noticed, Adblock Plus for Android no longer works out of the box on non-rooted devices running Android 4.1.2 or 4.2.2, it’ll show a warning asking you to manually configure the proxy instead. via Adblock Plus. I maintain that Android is only as open as the carriers, handset manufacturers and Google want […]