Android Leftovers

• Android version of Google Calendar app gains useful feature

• The best iPhone and Android apps of 2019

• 5 incredible new Android apps to check out this week (DEC 11, 2019)

• Motorola begins its first stable Android 10 update for a surprisingly old mid-ranger

• Google updates Android TV to Android 10 and announces ADT-3

• Google releases Android 10 OS for the Android TV platform

• Nokia C1 unveiled: an affordable Android 9 Go Edition phone

• Nokia C1 Android 9 Go Edition smartphone launched

• How to turn on notifications for Snapchat's Android app in 2 ways

• How to set an alarm on your Android phone or tablet in 4 simple steps

• You can pre-order the new Moto 360 with Wear OS today, ships in January

• execMobile adds Android eSIM to its iOS eSIM offering

• Strategy Analytics’ UX Trends for 2020: Advancements in AI, 5G & Android Automotive OS, Set to Bring Digital Transformation

• BMW says ‘ja’ to Android Auto

• Google simplifies trawling through Android Open Source Project code

• Pixel's Improved Memory Management Coming To All Android Phones

Heroku Review apps available for Treeherder

In bug 1566207 I added support for Heroku Review Apps (link to official docs). This feature allows creating a full Treeherder deployment (backend, frontend and data ingestion pipeline) for a pull request. This gives Treeherder engineers the ability to have their own deployment without having to compete over the Treeherder prototype app (a shared deployment). This is important as the number of engineers and contributors increases. Once created you get a complete Heroku environment with add-ons and workers configured and the deployment for it. Looking back, there are few new features that came out of the work, however, Heroku Review apps are not used as widely as I would have hoped for.

Linux-driven RISC-V core to debut on an NXP i.MX SoC

The OpenHW Group unveiled a Linux-driven “CORE-V Chassis” eval SoC due for tape-out in 2H 2020 based on an NXP i.MX SoC, but featuring its RISC-V-and PULP-based 64-bit, 1.5GHz CV64A CPU and 32-bit CV32E cores. Meanwhile, Think Silicon demonstrated a RISC-V-based NEOX|V GPU. A not-for-profit, open source RISC-V initiative called the OpenHW Group that launched in June has announced that it plans to tape out a Linux-friendly CORE-V Chassis evaluation SoC in the second half of 2020 built around its 64-bit CV64A CPU core and 32-bit CV32E coprocessor. The RISC-V based cores will be integrated into an undefined, NXP i.MX heterogeneous, multi-core SoC design. The SoC was announced at this week’s RISC-V Summit in San Jose, Calif., where Think Silicon also demo’d an early version of a RISC-V-based NEOX|V GPU (see farther below). The open source CV64A CPU core and 32-bit CV32E are based on RISC-V architecture PULP Platform cores developed by the University of ETH Zurich. The 64-bit CV64A core is based on ETH Zurich’s Ariane implementation of its RV64GC RISC-V core IP. RV64GC is also used by many other RISC-V projects, including SiFive’s U54.

today's howtos and leftovers

• LibreOffice Writer: Starting The Program

• How to use the pipe in Linux commands

• How To Install LEMP Stack on CentOS 8

• OpenShift Scale-CI: Part 3 – OCP 4.1 and 4.2 Scale Run Highlights

• Toplip – A Very Strong File Encryption And Decryption CLI Utility

• Frédéric Wang: Review of my year 2019 at Igalia

  In 2016, I was among the new software engineers who joined Igalia. Three years later I applied to become co-owner of the company and the legal paperwork was completed in April. As my colleague Andy explained on his blog, this does not change a lot of things in practice because most of the decisions are taken within the assembly. However, I’m still very happy and proud of having achieved this step  One of my new duty has been to be the “mentor” of Miyoung Shin since February and to help with her integration at Igalia. Shin has been instrumental in Igalia’s project to improve Chromium’s Code Health with an impressive number of ~500 commits. You can watch the video of her BlinkOn lightning talk on YouTube. In addition to her excellent technical contribution she has also invested her energy in company’s life, helping with the organization of social activities during our summits, something which has really been appreciated by her colleagues. I’m really glad that she has recently entered the assembly and will be able to take a more active role in the company’s decisions!