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Missing new Nexus 7 factory images, legal drama & AOSP handler quits

Advertisements There is a lot happening on the AOSP end this week and looks like it culminated in the resignation of AOSP handler Jean-Baptiste Queru from his AOSP duties. Let’s start from the beginning – the factory images of the new Nexus 7 tablet have been missing from the Google Developers site since the launch […]

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Android 4.3 Jelly Bean announced, OTA update coming to Nexus devices today

Advertisements Along with the new Nexus 7 tablet, Google has also unveiled Android 4.3 at today’s Breakfast with Sundar Pichai press event. The latest Android version, which is still called Jelly Bean, will be available for original Nexus 7, Nexus 4, Nexus 10 and Galaxy Nexus devices beginning today as an over-the-air (OTA) update. The […]

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Always scanning Wi-Fi & improved Roboto font discovered in leaked Android 4.3 ROM

Advertisements The recently leaked pre-release Android 4.3 ROM for Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition has been dissected by all around the blogosphere and a few under the hood changes have been discovered. If it is indeed a near-final build of Android 4.3, it is going to be a pretty minor update over Android 4.2.2; […]

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Android Development Games Google I/O 2013

Google Play game services official, aims to bring social & cloud features to games

Advertisements As Sundar Pichai had hinted in his Wired interview, the major part of Google I/O keynote was devoted to developers. During one of the dev-focussed parts of keynote, Google announced the new Play game services – a suite of gaming services for game developers, which make it easy to include social features in mobile […]

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Android 4.3 confirmed ahead of Google I/O

Advertisements With Google I/O 2013 keynote just 80 minutes away, we have a confirmation on Android 4.3. Looks like, this Android version is indeed going to be announced at the event. The references to Android 4.3 were spotted in search results from Android developer website just now (first reported by The Verge). The Android version […]

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Android Development Applications

Android might get app data sync soon: Report

Advertisements There might be a flood of Android app data back-up solutions available in Google Play; Android users are still waiting for something that will let them sync app data across devices. This wait might finally be over soon. The tear-down of an unreleased Google Play Services APK file, which had earlier revealed the existence […]

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CyanogenMod 10.1 RC release rolling out now for 40 devices

Advertisements CyanogenMod team has announced that it has started pushing the first release candidate build for CM 10.1. Based on Android 4.2.2, CM 10.1 is now just one or two or milestones away from the stable release. “We haven’t used the ‘Release Candidate’ nomenclature since the ICS days, but we feel the 10.1 branch is […]

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Voice-activated, time-delayed capture modes coming to CyanogenMod

Advertisements Looks like the camera app in CyanogenMod 10.1 is going to get a cool new feature. CM dev Ricardo Cerqueira, who mainly tweaks LG devices, is currently working on integrating voice-activated and time-delayed capture to CyanogenMod. From the video and images shared by him, the development for the feature seems to be going good. […]

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