Eyes On Android

Heralded by leaks and covert marketing the new flagship Google phones, the Pixel 4 and its larger XL sibling, were officially unveiled in New York on Tuesday.

Reuse is the best form of recycling they say, so this is an interesting one, for the reuse of old Android phones.

One for the category of Android embedded in set top boxes (STBs). DTVKit Software Community and software services company Mobica will be demonstrating a new Android TV launcher at IBC 2019.

A new release of Flutter, version 1.9, will ready the cross-platform mobile UI toolkit for use with macOS Catalina and iOS 13.

Google has updated Android Studio, its integrated development envorment for building both Flutter and Android apps.

No desert codenames this time, the new release of Android will simply be known as Android 10.

What do you think of the Google convention of naming major Android releases after (alphabetically ordered, American) deserts? A bit of distracting nonsense, or a harmless aide-memoire? Why do I ask? Well, you may have heard, the practice is to be discontinued. Android Q will be named, simply, Android 10. Blame globalisation, it seems. Google writes: Our engineering team has ...

The Fairphone - a self-avowed “conflict-free” smartphone that runs Android - has been updated with version 3 imminent shortly. Dubbed "The phone that dares to be fair", it can be pre-ordered for €450.

Amid a recent flurry of emails from Google regarding my French Revolution app, concerning Families Policies and icon design, was one advising the use of an Android Bundle, to "reduce your app size and boost installs".

Google has released the source code for its own Android app that was in use for the Google I/O event back in May. Think of it as a working example of best Android practice, as practised by Google.