General Android

Google has updated Flutter – its mobile UI toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code – to version 3.13. The latest release sees performance improvements to its Impeller graphics renderer, APIs for foldable devices (for example, reporting the physical size, the device pixel ratio, and the refresh rate of the display), supporting wide-gamut ...

With Beta 3, Google has reached “Platform Stability” for its forthcoming release of the Android 14 mobile operating system. The Beta 3 contains accessibility features such as non-linear font scaling, privacy upgrades (partial photos/videos access), new animation support in gesture navigation, and to “further align” with the OpenJDK 17 LTS release. Also, in terms of security changes, apps targeting Android ...

Displays modules which can be custom-configured using standard Android apps or user-developed APK file, manufactured by Dwin are now available from Review Display Systems (RDS).  The integrated DMG10600T101-33WTC intelligent display modules is based on a Rockchip RK3288 Arm-based SoC, with a 32-bit Cortex A-17 core running an Android operating system. There is a 10.1-inch IPS TFT LCD with WSVGA resolution ...

Google has announced a further upgrade to Flutter, its mobile UI toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code. The release adds improved support for trackpad input, improved text selection, the capability to understand Scribble handwriting input, more consistent presentation for Windows desktop and support for more Material Design 3 components. Version 3.3 of the ...

Google has begun rolling out Android 13, the newest version of the mobile OS, to its own Pixel devices. It will be available for devices from the likes of Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, OnePlus, Sony and Xiaomi “later this year”. According to Google, the main thrust of Android 13 is towards privacy and security, developer productivity and improvements for tablets and ...

Google has announced the second Beta of its Android 13 mobile operating system. It says the release concentrates on “core themes of privacy and security” as well as developer productivity. For example, it’s added a new permission for sending notifications, a privacy-protecting photo picker (letting you select the exact photos or videos you want to share), and more detailed permissions when ...

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

Google and Apple announce the release of their Exposure Notification API to support contact tracing attempts in the current pandemic.

Android will soon have a new built-in virtual braille keyboard. It's designed to let you type it wherever you may be in an app