Hear from Android developers and advocates at GDG DevFest in Sydney on November 7...
Sydney GDG is holding a DevFest event on Saturday November 7 at the Commonwealth Bank Innovation Lab in Sydney's Darling Quarter. The event will feature presentations from a number of prominent members of the local and international developer community...
Google adds the factory image for the Nexus 6P to the developers page
Google has begun shipping the Nexus 6P to US customers, so with units arriving on doorsteps over there (and soon over here), Google has uploaded the Nexus 6P factory image to their developers page.
As you can see below, there's...
Sony begins to roll out Concept for Android: Marshmallow firmware for its Z3...
Sony has begun rolling out their previously announced Marshmallow concept for the Xperia Z3 series to residents of Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and of course Sweden today, launching the Xperia Z3 Concept...
LG Nexus 5X Factory image now available to download
LG's Nexus 5X went on-sale in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, India, Korea, and Japan from US$379 just yesterday. Carphone Warehouse in the UK began selling the phones on Friday last week, and day one pre-orders from the Google...
LG bringing Android 6.0 Marshmallow to Australian LG G4 owners from mid November
LG Electronics Australia have announced this morning that the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update will be here in Australia for LG G4 users from mid November. While users overseas can expect to receive their updates starting next week, Australia has...
Huawei lists which of their phones will see an update to Marshmallow
In line with their growth as a recognisable phone manufacturer, Huawei has also undertaken a more forward looking perspective when it comes to software updates. Though they haven't been known previously as having a great record with phone updates,...
Not so fast – looks like the wrist flick gesture has been dropped for...
The shot of the Settings menu from the upcoming Nexus 5X and 6P from the Indian launch yesterday showed that the phones would support the very Motorola-like double-twist wrist flick gesture to launch the camera, but it seems that...
Telstra confirms it has approved Android 6.0 Marshmallow OTA for Nexus 5
We've received advice from Telstra this morning that it has approved the Android 6.0 Marshmallow over-the-air (OTA) update for the Nexus 5. Better yet, Telstra has confirmed that Google has started progressively releasing the update to Nexus 5 users...
For the second year in a row, LG is first OEM to update a...
After the announcement and deployment of Lollipop to AOSP last year, LG won bragging rights as the first OEM to deploy a build of Android 5.0 to their flagship handset, the LG G3 to customers in Poland. LG has...
Sony Mobile adds Xperia Z5 to AOSP program and makes AOSP Android 6.0 Marshmallow...
Sony's efforts to make good with the Open Source community are pretty well established, they've been running their AOSP project, which provides binaries and source for developers to build stock ROMs for Xperia devices for some time. With the...
Samsung device list starting to emerge for Marshmallow update
Following the release of Android 6.0 to AOSP and updates for Nexus and Android One handsets beginning, Android OEMs have their development teams in overdrive in an effort to be among; if not the first to update their latest...
Sony offers Marshmallow based concept to 10,000 European Z3 and Z3 Compact owners
Sony is expanding the trial for their software concept for Xperia that they launched for Swedish Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact owners back in July, with an updated Marshmallow based concept.
The new trial has been expanded to more European...
Synaptics to bring pressure sensitive screens to Android with new display controller
Synaptics, a name some of us who've been around a while would usually associate with trackpads on laptops, is in Android news today, announcing its new ClearPad 3700 force-sensing touchscreen controller, which the company would like to see in 2016's...
In-App Translation available to Marshmallow users with Translate installed
Marshmallow is rolling out to Nexus and Android One phones this week and with Android One fairly prevalant in non-English speaking countries, translation is a key tool. More than 50% of the internet consists of web pages in English,...
Google starts rolling out Marshmallow to Android One handsets
With Android Marshmallow rolling out to Nexus devices, apparently Google is also updating their lower tier Android One handsets to Marshmallow as well.
Android Police is reporting multiple reports of Android One devices located in both India and the...