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Google has begun its journey towards Android 14, its next major release of the mobile OS. It has released Developer Preview 1. As always, such a release is not for general users but for developers, providing an early look at the next version of Android, for testing, development, and feedback. Note that you will need to manually install a system ...

It's that time of year - Droidcon London 2022 is heading into town, for what is the UK’s largest Android event for developers.

Google has released a Developer Preview of its Android 13 mobile operating system - an early look at the next version of Android, for testing, development, and feedback.

Google’s release of Flutter 2.10 – the mobile user interface toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code – sees added support for Windows Apps. The embedded UI toolkit embraced Windows, macOS and Linux back in March 2021, but now there is support for Windows as an app target, too. In the announcement, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...