Android Leftovers
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Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 drizzles Android apps, Photoshop artboards, photo dehazing and more
The company's annual rollout of big features and small tweaks includes some whizzy capabilities as usual, and finally, mobile apps for Android phones.
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[Android M Feature Spotlight] ADB Can Now Reboot Directly To Sideload Mode, Adds A Few Other Commands
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Android on BlackBerry: More harm than good
With its latest smartphones, the BlackBerry Classic and BlackBerry Passport, continuing to attract no buyer interest, BlackBerry's hardware business seems destined for the dustbin of history. Yet fans continue to hope for some Hail Mary move from the once-dominant mobile device maker.
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Apple’s iOS 9 vs. Google’s Android M: Release date, compatibility, features
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Can Android Give BlackBerry New Life?
By moving to Android, BlackBerry might regain some handset business -- but it is unlikely that it could recapture anywhere near the market share it had even five years ago. Instead, "BlackBerry is clearly now on track to become an enterprise software and services company first, with its devices playing a minor role," said Daniel Gleeson, senior analyst for mobile devices and networks at IHS.
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Razer's open source virtual reality project now supports Android devices
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First Data launches Clover Mini for accepting Apple Pay, Android Pay, and other NFC-enabled wallets
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Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Android 5.1.1 Lollipop Update On The Way To Fix 5.0 Problems
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20 best new Android apps and games this week
Welcome to this week’s roundup of the latest, greatest Android apps and games, covering smartphones and tablets.
All these apps have been released for the first time – ie not updates – since the last roundup. All prices are correct at the time of writing, with “IAP” indicating use of in-app purchases.
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Fallout Shelter Android Release Date: Bethesda Staffer Confirms Game Weeks Maybe Months Away
Bethesda has a lot of fun demo opportunities for fans and media like at E3 2015. Besides the big games like Fallout 4, fans had a chance to check out the company’s journey into mobile gaming with Fallout Shelter.
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Yes, Fallout Shelter Is Coming To Android
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Android Wear Is Worthless for Travelers
On a recent trip to Canada, I decided to take an Android Wear smartwatch. I'd be doing a lot of walking, and I brought it on the principle that carrying the Internet on my wrist would enable me to pay more attention to my environment and less to my phone. (As an Android phone user, I can't use the Apple Watch.)
The trip with Android Wear left me believing a little more in smartwatches, and appalled to the point of embarrassment by Google's efforts. It's all on Google, too, not the watch manufacturers. While the various Android Wear watches look different, and my LG Watch Urbane was handsome and comfortable, they all run stock or nearly stock Google software.
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Google Launches Bug Bounty Program For Android With Rewards Up To $38,000
Google today announced the launch of a security rewards program for Android at Black Hat’s Mobile Security Summit in London. The Android program will only cover vulnerabilities that affect Nexus phone and tablets available for sale in the Google Play Store, though. Right now, that’s the Nexus 6 phone and Nexus 9 tablet.
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Google Releases Topeka Demo Project For Android
Last year, Google released an open-source web project called Topeka. The project demoed the power of Polymer and material design on the web, and aimed to give developers some direction on how to execute material design in their own projects.
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Razer's open source virtual reality project now supports Android devices
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Razer to Showcase Blade and Open Source VR Headset at E3
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The Flopped Ouya Console Gets Acquired By Razer
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Vessel's new Android app opens the viral video service to a bigger audience
Building a massive viewership for your startup video service can be hard to do without a presence on Android, so today Vessel — the company led by Hulu's ex-CEO Jason Kilar — is launching an app for Google's OS. If you're unfamiliar with Vessel, the service offers subscribers who pay $2.99 per month exclusive early access to popular short form videos. Creators who publish clips on Vessel must wait at least 72 hours before sharing them elsewhere (i.e. YouTube, where many of these viral stars first built their audience), but the company offers higher cuts of ad and subscription revenue in exchange for those early rights.
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Nexus 6 Android 5.1.1 Lollipop Update Continues
In April Google confirmed a new Android 5.1.1 Lollipop update was headed to all Nexus smartphones and tablets, aimed at squashing a few more bugs and improving the Android Lollipop experience, and today that update is arriving for more Nexus 6 users.
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Google Fights Amazon's Silver Bullet With Free Android Apps
The Google Play store allows developers to list applications as paid for, or for free. Paid for apps can be switched to free apps, but the same is not true in the opposite direction. Once an app is ‘free’, then it’s free for ever. The addition of a ‘Free App Of The Week’ program from Google could herald a change in that policy, with the assumption that the ‘Free App’ is a temporary special offer, rather than highlighting apps that are already set up as free.
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How to Run Android on Your PC: The Best Android Emulators
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Get This Cool S6 Edge Feature on Any Android Phone
You might have noticed the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, a rather distinctive handset with a curved screen. The extra display can be used to alert you to different notifications and give quick links to contacts and other parts of the TouchWiz OS. Thanks to a clever app, you can get one of these features on your standard flat-screen Android device.
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Samsung keyboard bug leaves 600m Android devices exposed to hackers
Vulnerability remains months after discovery, allowing hackers to eavesdrop on calls, steal data and activate camera, microphone and GPS remotely
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Android Auto vs. Apple CarPlay: Google and Apple battle for dashboard dominance
Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are fairly evenly matched where functionality is concerned, so the primary differences come down to differences in their core design philosophies.
Like most Apple products, CarPlay presents a simplified and well thought-out design that leaves very little room for confusion. With one hand, Apple gives its drivers the largest selection of third-party music and audio apps. With the other, it takes away all other choices with zero support for third-party messaging apps. Considering that messaging is historically more distracting than listening, I can sort of understand Apple's stance here.
Android Auto on the other hand takes a different tack with nearly the same feature set. Rather than a barebones interface, it brings information to the driver with contextual Google Now cards that seemed to know where I was headed before I did. Google also gains the edge in number of apps supported, thanks to its ability to integrate third-party messaging apps.
Which is best for you will depend on what you prefer from your mobile OS, but realistically your decision was already made when you chose the phone that's in your hand right now.
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Moto 360 is Finally Getting Its Android Wear Update to Android 5.1.1
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Google strikes out with Android One in India
Google has experienced lousy sales of its OEM-partnered Android One smartphones in India. Yet, the company seems committed to the long haul in what is a sizzling smartphone market.
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If this is true, then the whole raison d'etre of the Android One idea faces an existential threat: Consumers want to buy phone brands first, not operating systems. Faced with a flood of what is essentially the same phone in a different skin doesn't seem to be such a hot proposition after all. Of course, in my opinion, this is pretty much what so many phone companies do anyway; phones are armed with the same processors, cameras, screens, and OSes. Yet, they all tout themselves as being uniquely different. In which case, at a minimum, the appearance of differentiation at the very least seems to be important in order to get the consumer to pick your unit versus an almost identical one offered by a competitor.
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Google's big project to sell super cheap phones in India appears to be failing
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[Android M Feature Spotlight] Fastboot Fixes Notorious "missing system.img" Bug, Adds 'Flashing' Commands And Cleaner Syntax For reboot-bootloader
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6 Awesome iPhone and Android Games Announced at E3 2015
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Moto X Android 5.1 Lollipop Update Emerges
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