Eyes On Android

Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles to

Just read a post on the Official Android blog (“News and notes from the Android team”) about some promised future updates to Android Wear – and saw this nice breakdown of four new or imminent wearable devices (watches).

Samsung has announced a tablet aimed at business use – “built for business,” it says – at IFA 2014 in Berlin. It’s the ruggedized Galaxy Tab Active.

Meant to flag this one last week – there are further details on the Droidcon London 2014 speaker line up. Android SDK engineer Chet Haase – you may have seen him on the “DevBytes” YouTube series – will deliver the keynote at the event, on October 30. He will be exploring what’s new in Android. Other speakers include Cyril Mottier ...

I don’t normally cover market share reports, but it’s good once in a while to take the temperature…

Google has published its latest Android platform stats, for August 2014 – based on active devices interacting with Google Play.

One for classical music buffs, and an interesting example of a high-end Android app: the Digital Concert Hall, which is the mobile digital home of the distinguished Berlin Philharmonic.

Google Fit was announced at the company’s I/O event back in June as part of the wearables theme. Well, Google has now fleshed out its vision for supporting fitness apps with a preview SDK available to developers…

Should flag this one for the record. Microsoft, and Intel and CircuitCo, have announced (for pre-order) Sharks Cove, a Windows-compatible devboard for developers to build and test drivers. See DevBoard Watch: Microsoft swims into Sharks Cove with Windows dev board. Why mention it on an Android blog? The key element is the Intel Atom Z3735G processor and Microsoft explicitly allows ...

Simplified sign-in is now being rolled out with the latest version of Google’s browser app, writes Google. When you are signed into the latest Chrome beta for Android, you won’t need to sign in again on other Google websites, such as Gmail, Maps, Calendar or the search page. This is the default Desktop operation. On the Chrome blog: When you ...