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One of the most exciting changes in Android O is the new Autofill API that would allow password manager apps to register as system-wide providers of autofill services. In layman terms, this means that ...
Ghost Corps has demoed the Google Maps API-driven Ghostbusters World, a new augmented reality game which is due to launch sometime in 2018. The demo, which you can see below, is what the game looks ...
Imagination Technologies is a British semiconductor R&D and licencing company that you might have, or might not have heard of. You have probably heard of the PowerVR mobile graphics processors though, ...
Android for Work—Google's enterprise-focused dual-persona mode for Android—is a great solution for BYODers that need to keep work and personal data separate. Enable it and Android leverages the ...
Android 14 introduced a new screenshot detection API that would let app developers easily detect when a user has taken a screenshot without building hacky workarounds. Apps have begun using the API, ...
If you think back to when Marshmallow was unveiled, and then even further back to when it was still known as 'M', you may remember a feature in the System UI Tuner, known as 'Demo Mode.' It was a ...
Google today announced that it will soon support the Khronos Group’s Vulkan graphics API on Android. The goal of Vulkan is very similar to that of Apple’s Metal API for iOS and OS X. Vulkan is a ...
Low-overhead graphics APIs are all the rage these days, at least if you're the sort of person who gets excited about graphics APIs. iOS 8 introduced Metal last year, and OS X El Capitan will bring the ...
Android has long offered an Activity Recognition API that processes device sensor data with machine learning models in a battery-efficient manner. Google is now offering an Android Sleep API to allow ...
We've already seen applications that let you run Android apps on Windows. But now it looks like the opposite is possible too thanks to an ARM-friendly version of Wine, the popular 'compatibility layer ...