Android is a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel and currently developed by Google. With a user interface based on direct manipulation, Android is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, with specialized user interfaces for televisions (Android TV), cars (Android Auto), and wrist watches (Android Wear). Android is the most popular mobile OS. As of 2013, Android devices sell more than Windows, iOS, and Mac OS devices combined.
One of the ways Google Glass can attract new users is for compelling, helpful apps. A new one from the Georgia Institute of Technology provides text captions from the spoken word… Read more »
For the second quarter in a row, HTC managed a profit even as smartphone sales sag. Cutting costs is a great short-term solution but won’t help forever. Perhaps the Nexus 9… Read more »
Samsung is already pretty far along with merging its TouchWiz interface with the Material Design of Android L based on this video of an early software build. Read more »
Facebook’s “Like” button has gone native on mobile. As of Thursday, Android and iOS developers are able to add it inside their apps, giving users the ability to “like” an article, the app… Read more »
The latest Dropbox app update for Android gives users the ability to save files onto an SD card. Previously, users had to download files to their phone or tablet’s onboard storage and… Read more »
Does the internet of things need an entirely different style of operating system? ARM thinks so. It upgraded mbed to bridge full-featured OSes and the real-time OSes for the embedded market. Read more »
Tile, the makers of a bluetooth tag that people stick on their personal objects to avoid losing those objects, has detailed its $13 million raised in the last year and its… Read more »
The ability to swap out a Project Ara phone component was already intriguing and now it will be easy to do as well: A modified version of Android L will let… Read more »
Google-owned Waze is finding a new way to get detailed information about businesses and residences: The app has a new feature called Places which gathers crowd-sourced data to help the community,… Read more »
Did the battery life of the Moto 360 scare you off from purchasing? If so, you may want to hear what users are reporting after the latest software update: Vastly more… Read more »