Статьи по тегу «android»

Google is rolling out a pilot program today that introduces a new way to pay cashiers — and it involves leaving your phone in your pocket. It’s called Android Pay Hands Free, and it’s a way to basically connect your phone with a point of sales system using the sensors on your phone. The end result is that a point of sale device is already aware of your phone’s presence,… Read More... →

If you’ve ever wanted to serve a stadium dog to Lionel Messi, you’re about to get the opportunity. Cooking Fever, a mobile kitchen-sim game for iOS and Android, is getting an update this month that has players running a restaurant inside the stadium of Spanish soccer team FC Barcelona, which is the best team in Europe. […]... →

Roger, the walkie-talkie style voice messaging app created by a team of ex-Spotify engineers, has landed on Android. Read More... →

Автор книги 'The Best Interface is No Interface' Голден Кришна стал одним из главных популяризаторов современного подхода к построению интерфейсов. Учет текущего контекста, использование сенсоров и накопленной о пользователе информации позволяют минимизировать объем интерфейса, а значит, упростить работу с продуктом. Кришна работал в Cooper, Samsung и Zappos, а в середине декабря 2015 года стал частью команды Android в Google.Редакция рубрики «Интерфейсы» провела c Голденом Кришной сессию вопросов и ответов... →

Международная компания по онлайн-бронированию Booking Group запустила на российском рынке сервис бюджетных путешествий Boombilla, аналог компании BlaBlaCar. Об этом сообщает РБК. Сумма привлеченных на разработку средств от Booking Group составит €1–1,5 млн в течение двух лет. Сервис планирует привлечь 1 млн пользователей в России к 2017 году, за счет преимущества для пользователей удобно и экономно путешествовать, а также возможность продвижения компании через радиостанции (путешествия на музыкальные фестив... →

Facebook’s Moments, the social network’s private photo-sharing application – and replacement for photo syncing – will now support video-sharing, the company announced today. The new feature is live in the updated version of the Moments mobile application for iOS and Android devices. In a few weeks, Facebook says that Moments will also allow users to include videos… Read More... →

Google’s Maps app for iOS now supports scheduling multiple stops along a trip. The feature first arrived on Android in October, Google says, and solves a common problem travelers face: having to cancel and reenter your driving directions for meals and bathroom breaks. It’s a simple feature that would have been nice to have all along. As far as we […]... →

Last fall, Google announced the addition of a long-requested feature to Google Maps, which allowed users to – finally! – add a stop along their current route. That way you could route your way to a gas station or restaurant ahead of your final destination. However, at launch, the feature was only available on Android devices. Today, Google says the feature is now available on all… Read More... →

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Last-minute accommodation booking service HotelTonight has a set of “magic” words that you can search by in order to get find the right hotels. In the company’s last app release, it added these 13 keywords that will enable a specific search to take place when paired with a specific city. Available for iOS and Android, […]... →

WhatsApp is to cease support for a number of operating systems by the end of 2016, the company announced yesterday. With Android and iOS dominating the smartphone realm, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile still clinging on, the Facebook-owned company has revealed it will end support for BlackBerry (including BlackBerry 10), Nokia S40, […]... →

Facebook has announced that it is finally expanding its live video-streaming tool to Android devices, but only in the U.S. for now. Today’s news comes one month after the social network opened Facebook Live to all iOS users in the U.S., following a short period of limited availability for celebrities and those with verified profiles. […]... →

Facebook is expanding its live-video feature to Android users, the company announced in a blog post today. This rollout is initially for Android users based in the U.S. next week, but “more countries [are] coming soon,” Facebook confirmed. Read More... →

Соцсеть Facebook предложила рекламодателям новый формат — полноэкранные объявления Canvas, которые будут доступны пользователям мобильных устройств по нажатию на рекламную ссылку в ленте новостей. Такая реклама может занимать несколько экранов и загружаться еще до того, как пользователь перешел к ней, пишет TechCrunch.... →

Сервис «Яндекс.Такси» выходит на первый зарубежный рынок и запускается в Минске. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. По данным «Коммерсанта», технологическим партнером «Яндекс.Такси» в Минске станет компания «Столица 135», через которую заказы будут распределяться на официально лицензированных перевозчиков (150 индивидуальных предпринимателей и несколько десятков юридических лиц). «Яндекс.Такси на первой стадии не будет брать комиссию за заказы с таксопарков (ее планируют ввести через несколько месяцев). Ми... →

Google today announced a few enhancements for the Google Play Developer Console, which Android app developers can use to monitor the usage of their apps. Now developers have an easy way to see the most common themes that end users mention in their app reviews. Google bubbles up these themes in the new Review Highlights […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it has stopped working on Windows Bridge for Android, a tool for turning Android apps into universal Windows apps that can run on all types of Windows devices. Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference last year that Android would be an app type for the Windows Store, and to help […]... →

In 2010, tablets were supposed to be the new hot thing. Apple released the first iPad, Samsung was working on the Galaxy Tab and countless of others were about to flood the market with Android tablets. Six years later, there wasn’t any tablet at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Companies and consumers have moved on — tablets are dead. Read More... →

Pac-Man is one of the first gaming franchises that fans turned into a phenomenon. But these days, the yellow pizza-shaped hero is spending more time chasing other hit games than his own power pellets. Bandai Namco released Pac-Man: Puzzle Tour for iOS and Android today. It is the publisher’s spin on the megapopular Candy Crush […]... →

To ensure complete data security and privacy for TRI’s Turing Phone owners, TRI moved its manufacturing operations to Salo, a city with an impeccable history in mobile phone production,” said Steve Chao, the CEO of Turing Robotics. Read More... →