Eyes On Android

Here's another candidate book for your coding shelves - Flutter Apprentice, which will help you get to grips with the cross-platform toolkit. It will be available for free for the next three months via the publishers Razeware.

Google has made Developer Preview 3 available for the next major release of Android, version 12, which is due to appear before the end of the year. Note that the only devices that can run the preview are Google’s own Pixel 3, 3a, 4, 4a, 4a (5G), or 5. As always for these developer-only releases, you will need to install ...

Google has announced a major upgrade to its Flutter toolkit with version 2.0 adding operating system support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, in addition to Android and iOS. There is also what Google describes as production-quality support for web-based applications, calling Flutter from within HTML. Launched in London back in December 2018, Flutter is a mobile user interface toolkit for ...

Humax introduces the Aura, the set-top box which it describes as the first Android TV 4K Freeview Play recorder.

Google has started rolling out Android 11, beginning with Pixel, OnePlus, Xiaomi, OPPO and realme phones. Access to the latest major version of its mobile and embedded operating system will widen to other devices “over the coming months”, says Google. Features of the release include support for use of ‘Bubbles’, a new notifications section, built-in screen recording and new media ...

Google has announced version 1.20 of Flutter, its system for creating – in native ARM code – embedded graphic components for both iOS and Android from a single codebase. As well as promised performance improvements, the release includes some UI enhancements. For example, support for autofill, a new way to layer widgets to support pan and zoom, new mouse cursor ...

Humax has announces what it describes as "the world's most advanced Android TV device platform", the Humax H7.

Google and Apple update their Bluetooth-based pandemic tracing Exposure Notifications System, following feedback from early implementations by health authorities tackling Covid-19.

A year after it launched - to encourage more apps to use on-device machine learning - Google has announced the ten winners of its latest Android Developer Challenge.

Google has released a Beta version of Android 11 for developers, the next major iteration of its operating system. There have been a number of developer previews before, but the new beta release is also accompanied with final SDK and NDK APIs for developers to try out with apps. The final, full release is scheduled for “Q3”. As well as improved ...