Android Studio 2.0 is available to developers as a preview
As the Android platform continues to grow and develop, the capabilities of the platform grow and what apps can do is only limited by the hardware and the imagination of developers. The at times maligned issues within the...
Google’s Pixel C shows its Nexus roots with a factory image for the tablet...
Google has begun shipping their latest tablet, the Pixel C to customers in fourteen countries including those in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Google obviously intends to give owners full access to the tablet, releasing factory images for...
Google’s Family Playbook aims to help developers succeed with family-oriented games and apps
Google continues to offer advice for developers as e-books in Google Play Books. Their first developer book, The Secrets to App Success on Google Play, focused on how to succeed on the Play Store and was recently updated to...
PSA: The current Nexus 6P factory image also contains the updated fix for Telstra...
Updates to Android are always exciting, even if they're only a 0.0.1 update like we saw yesterday. There's a few changes and fixes included in the update including the new Emoji which were announced last year and while the...
Google unleashes new Factory Images for Nexus devices including new Emoji and December security...
Google has released new factory images for their current range of Nexus devices on their developers site. As promised last week by Hiroshi Lockheimer, the current head of Chrome, Android and Chromecast at Google, the update includes the new...
Owners of the Nexus Player, Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X getting washed out display...
Owners of the Nexus Player, Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X are apparently experiencing an issue with their displays looking washed out when playing back video. The bug apparently causes blacks to look grey, no matter what video content is...
New emoji coming to Android (Nexus) devices next week with new system images
New emoji is coming to Android with new system images including new fonts, keyboard and all new code included as well says Google head of Android, Chrome and Chromecast, Hiroshi Lockheimer.
The update comes on the back of Apple including...
Sony appears to be pushing for Google to adopt a ‘Restart’ option in the...
It always happens, you need to restart your Nexus phone or tablet and have to turn it off and turn it on again. If there's one thing that every OEM does right, it's add a restart option to the...
LG G4 Marshmallow update scheduled for end of December 2015
LG's G4 is surging ahead as the most likely 2015 flagship to receive Marshmallow first, with Telstra letting the update cat out of the bag. According to their OS updates thread, LG's 2015 flagship G4 will likely see the...
Huawei Watch Receives Maintenance Update
Huawei has announced via its community forum that its Android Wear smartwatch will be receiving a maintenance update, bringing some improvements to the watch along with a couple of new apps and features.
The update, which brings the Huawei Watch...
CyanogenMod starts releasing CM13 nightlies; Marshmallow for your devices
If you're into the custom Android scene, you'll know all about CyanogenMod, the custom firmware that started as a hobbyist project and quickly became a fairly significant force in Android. Just a couple of months after the public release...
Australian Huawei Nexus 6P owners starting to receive OTA update to fix Telstra 4G...
Australian Nexus 6P owners on the Telstra network will be pleased to know that the issues with 4G switching are close to being at an end, with reports starting to filter in that the long-awaited Over-The-Air (OTA) update to...
General Motors reportedly aware of MyLink Bluetooth software issue, not compatible with Marshmallow –...
The other day The newly launched Nexus 6P hasn't had the greatest of starts with wireless issues affecting both Telstra LTE customers as well as the Bluetooth stereo connection in some makes of cars which we've reported previously. The...
Google releases a book designed to help you succeed on the Play Store
Are you a a budding developer struggling with questions like when to release an app, should you put certain functions in or should you have ads or paid version? There is a seemingly endless number of questions that you'll...
Google to begin adding ‘ad-supported’ label to all apps in Google Play
Google has begun contacting developers to advise of changes to the developer policy which requires them to define whether their app contains advertising or not. The move follows on from the addition of the label to apps participating in...