Dave Burke talks Android O Developer Preview, reference devices and Project Treble
At Google I/O this year we got some more information on what's happening with Android O when VP Engineering (Android) at Google Dave Burke took to the stage. We had the opportunity to talk with Mr Burke at I/O...
Google welcomes Kotlin to Android
In the Google I/O 2017 keynote on the very first morning the biggest cheer of the session came when it was announced that Android is getting official support for Kotlin.
From now, Android Studio 3.0 ships with Kotlin out of...
Google moves to make VR development fast with Instant Preview and Seurat
As mentioned earlier today Google are moving into VR in a big way with a large chunk of Google I/O 2017 dedicated to Daydream. Two new features of the ecosystem have been announced today that are designed to...
HTC’s U11 will launch at an RRP of $999 in Australia
Following the Taiwan launch of its much-anticipated 2017 flagship U11 phone earlier this week, HTC has today announced the phone's local RRP of $999.
Considering the features on offer in the shape of HTC's squeezeable Edge Sense, Snapdragon 835 processor,...
What’s happening with Google Assistant and Home launching in Australia
The big news of Google I/O for many people was the direct call out to Australians on the expansion of Google Home to Australia. The physical home for Google Assistant is finally coming to Australia and while we're still...
Freeview FV update brings Chromecast support to Android and iOS; stream live TV to...
Freeview's FV live TV streaming app sees a major update today with the addition of Chromecast to both the Android and iOS versions of its app.
The addition of Chromecast puts a neat bow on Freeview's live TV streaming functionality...
Web VR coming to Chrome for Android later this year
At the VR Keynote this morning at Google I/O 2017 Google announced a lot of new things in the mobile AR/VR space. One such announcement which seems to have a lot of potential applications is Web VR in...
The Android Blobs are gone, enter the new Google Android Emojis
It seems like just yesterday when Google introduced their Android blob emoji in Android 4.4 and it kind of was -- 2013. While only four years ago that is a lifetime in the tech space. Android has...
LG and GE are making Google Assistant compatible appliances
Google Assistant got a big shot in the arm yesterday with a functionality boost to match Google Home. As an extension of that, appliance makers LG and GE have announced that their appliances will now be Google Assistant compatible,...
Now any developer can make Instant Apps for Android
After announcing Android Instant apps at Google I/O last year, it's been a slow road to release with an initial pilot group launching the feature. At Google I/O during the Keynote, product manager Ellie Powers announced that any developer...
Nick Fox from Google says Allo’s web client is still ‘a month or two’...
We have know for a while now that Google would be bringing a a web view for Google's Allo chat/messaging service, but Google hasn't as yet provided an exact date for when the web view would actually become available...
Todoist now supports real-time Google Calendar integration
Todoist is one of the leading productivity tools on the market for tracking your to do items and they do it well. There's a massive amount of functionality to streamline processes and increase your efficiency, the latest improvement...
YouTube VR app is getting a co-watching experience later this year
The hits just keep on coming for Google in VR, with the YouTube team taking the opportunity to outline a new feature for the YouTube VR app which will be coming later this year: Co-watching.
YouTube has had great success...
More Daydream-ready phones coming from Motorola and Asus by the end of the year
Yesterday we heard that not only will the next LG flagship of 2017 be Daydream compliant but that the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus will receive an update around the middle of the year to make them also...
Google Daydream 2.0 (Euphrates) is coming soon with Chromecast support, capture and share and...
At the Google VR Keynote at Google I/O, Daydream lead Clay Bavor has announced a new version of Daydream is coming with some major improvements for Daydream as well as some new, much requested features.
The upcoming 2.0 release for...