Статьи по тегу «android»

One in five photos or videos on Instagram show up with annoying whitespace around them because people use other apps to letterbox their landscape or portrait imagery to fit in Instagram’s square cropping. So today, Instagram for iOS and Android is dropping the requirement that all photos and videos be squares. Now when users upload photos, they can pinch or tap a format button on the left… Read More... →

Life360, the maker of mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows Phone that help keep families connected, has acquired Chronos Mobile Technologies, a startup behind a number of mobile apps that passively collect data from users’ smartphones in order to highlight trends and connections between various behaviors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Chronos had closed on a… Read More... →

Almost three-quarters of all WhatsApp users access the messaging app on Android, according to a study from GlobalWebIndex (GWI). Extracting data from a broader study of almost 50,000 Internet users, GWI’s WhatsApp segment focuses on 12,606 users of the mobile app from across 34 countries. It found that 73 percent of WhatsApp users are on […]... →

Google announced on Google+ that they added a new reporting section to the Google Play Developer Console - the console where Android developers go to manage their apps in the Google Play Store...... →

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Яндекс произвел перезапуск Метрики для приложений, объединив все основные инструменты по работе с приложениями и отслеживанию эффективности рекламных кампаний под одним общим названием AppMetrica. Еще в начале августа Яндекс начал предлагать всем желающим попробовать воспользоваться бесплатным трекингом и подробной аналитикой для приложений в новом качестве: AppMetrica - это аналитический инструмент, который в реальном времени собирает информацию об источниках аудитории, анализирует ее поведение в приложе... →

Former Apple chief executive (1983-93) John Sculley caught the tech industry off-guard today when he revealed a pair of low-cost but sleek Android (uniquely-skinned, running Lollipop) smartphones. The two phones, which bring to mind elements from Nokia’s Lumia devices and HTC’s polycarbonate unibody mid-range phones, are the result of a collaboration between Sculley and Robert Brunner’s Ammunition Group. The Obi Worldphone SJ1.5 […]... →

It was supposed to take 18 months. But with React Native, Facebook built its iOS Ads Manager app in 5 months, and then ported it to Android in just 3 more months. That’s because React Native let Facebook’s engineers work faster and reuse the JavaScript backend. Coders have dreamed of a system that would let them ‘write once, run anywhere’. But Facebook… Read More... →

Earlier today, Rovio said it would lay off 260 employees. This was relatively shocking news to the Internet, given its status as one of the vanguards of mobile gaming as the iPhone and Android exploded. But, in reality, this is the fate of more or less every game company — it just depends on the speed at which it happens. All games eventually fade into obscurity, and even viral… Read More... →

Android Pay, Google’s forthcoming payments platform and rival to Apple Pay, will soon launch, allowing consumers to pay using their Android smartphones at point-of-sale as well as make purchases within mobile applications. However, according to sources familiar with Google’s plans, Android Pay is not arriving today – or any time this week, in fact – despite a… Read More... →

YouTube just launched YouTube Gaming on the web, Android and iOS. As expected, YouTube Gaming goes head-to-head against Twitch, mirroring many popular features of the existing gaming streaming giant. Read More... →

Компания Google 26 августа официально запустила видеосервис YouTube Gaming, предназначенный для стриминга онлайн-игр. На момент написания заметки в сети появилось только приложение YouTube Gaming для Android.... →

The Amazon Underground app for Android launched today with a new business model. The in-app items, which are usually available for purchase, are available for free in the games and apps available under the new app. Amazon will compensate the developers based on pay per usage. If the new model takes off, it could provide an interesting […]... →

Portal, a recently launched Android app that lets you move large files between your computer and your smartphone via your Wi-Fi connection, has today made its way to iOS. The new version offers a better alternative to something like Apple’s AirDrop, for example, as it lets you transfer as many files as you’d like, with no file size limits, while also not counting against your data… Read More... →

With messaging apps like WhatsApp, Line, and Viber fighting for growth around the world, is there room for smaller, newer players? Charge Messenger thinks so and to prove that point, it just announced $1.7 million in seed funding and a new web client that lets users sync chats on their iOS and Android devices to desktop. Read More... →

Microsoft официально запустил бета-версию приложения Cortana для Android в США. Выпуск версии для iOS ожидается в ближайшее время. Полный опыт и функции Cortana доступны пользователям Windows 10 и Windows Phone. Но поскольку Cortana для Android не имеет доступа к электронной почте и календарю, то эта версия голосового помощника не предоставляет полный набор функций и возможностей пользователям устройств Android. Приложение имеет следующий набор функций: голосовой поиск для веб-запросов; голосовой набор т... →

If you’ve ever gotten tired of picking up your Android phone while you’re sitting in front of your computer, well, you’re not the only one. A new Chrome app allows you to use your Android phone right from any computer that can run Chrome. It works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Chromebooks. The new […]... →

Google today announced an update that brings Gmail and Google Calendar closer together. The new feature, which adds events to Google Calendar based on information in emails sent to your Gmail account, is rolling out in the coming week to all Google Apps customers on desktop, Android, and iOS. When you receive an email in […]... →

After promising all summer to launch its Twitch competitor, YouTube is finally getting into the game. YouTube Gaming, the video site’s centralized hub for everything related to the digital medium, launches tomorrow. This will give fans one place to get live and recorded content about the biggest, smallest, and most popular games. That’s because YouTube […]... →

Пользователи десктопной версии Twitter теперь будут получать уведомления о личных сообщениях. Если вкладка Twitter остается открытой, пока пользователь посещает другие сайты, уведомление появится в правом верхнем углу экрана. Клик по уведомлению приведет пользователя на страницу сообщения, где он сможет прочитать текст и ответить на него. Кроме того, компания изменила функционал личных сообщений в приложении для Android: Новинка призвана помочь обсуждению общедоступных твитов в личных сообщениях. В функци... →