Google to Release Android Wearable SDK This Month

Google’s SVP of Android, Applications and Chrome ‘Sundar Pichai’ announced that the company has decided to launch an android developer software development kit in this month that allows third-party developers to develop Android software to use on wearable computing devices.

This news has been declared by Sundar Pichai at SXSW today and he also confirmed that the Android SDK specially designed for use with wearable devices. While discussing about the panel with John Battelle at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, he made an announcement about Google’s plan to launch android developers SDK for wearable devices.

In the conference, Pichai said “In two weeks we are launching the first developer SDK for Android.” "That will lay out the vision for developers in how we see this market working."

He also said that one of the major aims is to take Android beyond smart-phones and tablet markets to a multi-screen world. He is very much impressed with the evolution of wearable devices to the smart-phone revolution as it takes the industry to the next level.

As per the person, who is familiar with the company’s plans, told CNET in February that Google is expected to release its plans for its smart-watch centric operating system. It comes to know that the company is working with LG, a South Korean electronics maker, to create a smart-watch which will be first launched at its Google I/O conference in June.

The new operating system is based on the Google Now voice assistant and search feature that will drive the core functions of its Google Glass headwear. However, the sales of smart-watches have not been as impressive as it expected, and the market is estimated to be worth $19 billion by 2018, as per the Juniper Research.

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Android 4.4 KitKat Reaches To 5% Shows in APV Chart Tracking Period

The latest version of Android reaches to 5% of the total visits to the Google Play Store all credit goes to the wave of recent firmware updates. The Android Platform Version chart is released by Google every month that shows which version of operating system active users have installed in their device. With the latest version, the measurement duration period cuts from 14 days down to 7 and shows below given stats:  

Screen Sizes and Densities

Here, we are going to discuss about the relative number of devices that includes a particular screen configuration, defined by the combination of screen size and density. The range of actual screen sizes and densities are divided by Android into several buckets that showed by the table below.  

Open GL Version

In this section, we are going to show data about the relative number of devices, supporting particular version of OpenGL ES. Importantly, support for any lower version is also implied by support for one particular version of OpenGL ES. Users have to use the android:glEsVersionattribute of the <uses-feature> element to know the required version of OpenGL ES your application.

The <supports-gl-texture> element is also used to declare the GL compression formats that your application uses.

Source:-  Android Developer

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Google’s Upcoming Plan- Android TV

Google is going to launch a renewed assault on your television set, known as Android TV, according to documents received by The Verge. There are many video app providers developing for this platform as it sounds like a semantic difference. Google TV based on Android, but has some different functionality. Android TV is a crazy attempt to turn your TV into a bigger, more powerful smart device. Google says, "Android TV is an entertainment interface, not a computing platform. It’s all about finding and enjoying content with the least amount of friction." It will be "cinematic, fun, fluid, and fast."

It simply means that Android TV will seem like the rest of the setup boxes available in the market like Amazon’s Fire TV, Apple TV, and Roku. The latest version of Google is less ambitious and easier to understand. Moreover, developers are called by the company for creating simple TV apps for an extremely simple set-top-box interface.

Users can also use a remote control with a four-way directional pad for scrolling left and right through various suggestions, up and down via different categories of content, each with their own shelves. Just like other setup box, this one also has a small movie poster or book cover, and you will pick the one you want. Enter, Home, and Back buttons are added in the controller that helps to get around, and there will be "optional" game controllers.

Voice input and notifications are support in Android TV, though Google is also encouraging developers to utilize only notifications in very limited cases. Overall, Android TV is one of the best products that seem like Amazon's just-released, Android-based Fire TV. If you want to know more about Android TV, then stay tuned with us. Moreover, if you want to develop any android application for Android TV, contact us for your android app development requirements at:- http://www.androiddevelopmentexperts.com/  

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DropBox Launches Mailbox Email Application to Android & Desktop With Auto-Swipe

Finally, Dropbox has announced that it is ready to launch the most popular Mailbox application to Android devices. In March of last year, Mailbox has joined Dropbox and it comes with numerous features, including swipeable gestures for archiving and deleting, it is much similar with the standard Gmail application.

Along with it, the company also showed off the demo of Mailbox application for Desktop also, yet this application is not ready for primetime, but if you are looking forward to take a look, it is obtainable in a limited beta.

On the hand, Mailbox works much similar with the iOS app on the Android and it is now obtainable in Google Play store, so users can download this app and enjoy lots of new features. Users of this application can snooze emails, taking away them from their inbox and only to return at a later date.

However, Mailbox is also a smarter application that knows completely the type of emails you are more likely to snooze/archive or doing everything automatically. If you are looking to download this app for your desktop, it allows you to make use of trackpad for gesture control, and features a simply minimal design.

To archive an email, users need to swipe on their trackpad like they are swiping a touch-screen on the phone. If you are one, who is looking to sign up for desktop version of this, go through this link Mailbox app .....

However, the auto-swipe feature was demoed by a Mailbox team member who explained “With just a tap, I get less email tomorrow than I did today.” There are lots of people, who end-up archiving same irritating spam, but they are too busy to unsubscribe button and go through the process.

At Dropbox’s big press event in San Francisco, the all new Mailboxes were disclosed and the company announced that it now has more than 275 million users and new collaboration integration with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint called Project Harmony.

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WhatsMyM3 - A Must Have Health Application

Nowadays, everyone is concerned about their health. That should be probable considering the kind of lives most of the people direct. Moreover, it is quite difficult to track things that exactly make you healthy, calories consumed and burned, blood pressure, and many other statistics. In addition to calorie count, one can also have to maintain their health properly and thus, WhatsMyM3 android application is available that maintain their health and fit selves.

WhatsMyM3 is one of the most recommended android applications that help users to control their mental health. Users have to complete 27 questions confidential screen, which is M3, at WhatsMyM3.com. Once questions are complete, user will get an overview of your potential risk of anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder or PTSD based on research published in the Annals of Family Medicine.

With the M3 Score, you come to know about the likelihood that the symptoms disclosed reflect a clinically significant disorder. In the annual report of a University of North Carolina, it is possible that “among people with no diagnosis, 83% receive an M3 Score below 33, whereas 81% of those with confirmed diagnoses fall above this threshold.”

If the score of M3 is higher, then the patient's responses are clinically significant and symptoms are having a real impact on quality of life. Hence, the M3 Score could be seen as a general mental wellness grade, with lower scores indicative of good mental health. Those people, who are getting treatment, are providing a target for treatment success. One of the best thing about this application, you can access it in two different languages, i.e. English & Spanish.

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Microsoft Soon to Launch Outlook Web App for Android

Finally, Android users are getting some kind of attention from Microsoft Outlook team as the company recently has revealed Outlook Web App (OWA) for Android platform. The company is soon to launch this application for business editions of Office 365 and Exchange. It comes to know that the upcoming application will bring Android in line with iOS and Windows Phone that both have native OWA applications.

The all new OWA application Android is following last year’s launch of OWA for the iPhone and iPad. It means Android users have gain the earlier access to new exchange features such as the slew that Microsoft declared at this week’s Exchange conference. It is one such application that provides contact, email, calendar features for Office 365 subscribers.

Microsoft wrote on its Office blog on Monday “We know that nearly half of emails are now first seen on the phone. So it's clear that phone is becoming the primary screen for communications… On iPhone and iPad, we released the OWA app last year. And today we announced that we will be releasing the OWA app for Android as our latest step in that journey.”

Among all the new features of OWA, Office 365 is codenamed Clutter as it promises to divide essential email from variety of junk that frequently fill inboxes. Office 365 (codenamed as Clutter) is uses Microsoft’s machine learning methods in order to look for indicators that unveil the meaning of some email messages or senders.

Microsoft said “For example, if you completely ignored Juan's email about his recent vacation pictures, that message was likely unimportant to you – ie, clutter.  On the other hand, if you both read and responded to Cathy's email about her new budget proposal, that message was likely important to you – ie, not clutter.”

Moreover, the all new Clutter feature will push crucial email to the top and drop all those email to the footer that is less interesting. Users of this application are also allowed to tag clutter items as non-clutter if they are selecting it so that similar items doesn’t get tangential in future. Further, they are also able to delete all clutter emails in a single click.

The application is integrated for tightly with OneDrive for Business that enables users to share files between Microsoft’s cloud storage and the OWA app as an email attachment. However, the company is also polishing up group collaboration that support real-time co-authoring on Office Online docs that are stored in OneDrive.

Within OWA application, finally the company is going to use Yammer-inspired group’s lists so that it can bring better collaboration facility across the Office suite.

Microsoft said “Both Outlook Web App and Yammer show the same conversations for the same groups. This means however you prefer to work – whether you live only in email, only in Yammer, or both — you can participate in the group. We're creating a collaboration tool that will allow everyone in your organization to work more closely together, in their preferred manner.”

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Is Apple Making an iTunes App for Android - Really?

According to some reports, it comes to know that the Apple could launch an iTunes application for Android devices. Before, there was no inkling of a thought in the presence of Steve Jobs, but the things are completely change under the Tim Cook command.

Some new reports are declaring that Apple might launch an iTunes application for Android in order to combat ailing digital music downloads. In past couple of years, it seems that the Apple’s revenue from iTunes music sales have been reducing and the company is looking forward to open its music store up to Android devices in order to help in increasing income.

Moreover, Apple is also looking to transform iTunes into a more modern service so that the company can boost the income. As the company said to be in the examining stages of generating a subscription-based model to rival the likes of spotify and Google Play Music.

In any case, if Apple launches an iTunes application for Android users, it may attract lots of new customers, who are using Android devices and the Google Play store to buy their desired music.

We all know that all the Android users have access to the Google Play Music service as well as Amazon’s digital music store, therefore if Apple introduces a new music store for them; it is not necessarily guarantee million of new users. Moreover, the company is also looking forward to launch a paid music subscription service to opponent the likes of Pandora, Google Play Music and Spotify.

According to three people, who are familiar with the talks, said “Apple has “opened investigative talks” with senior music label executives about a potential on-demand streaming service”.

We all know that in the US, the company already providing a free, ad-supported radio service that known as iTunes Radio, but it makes the mass music money from the single and album sales through iTunes.

Moreover, Apple associates to around 40% of the US music revenue, and the company is hoping that such big effort on music labels can bring huge effect on its business.

"They are feeling out some people at labels on thoughts about transitioning its customers from iTunes proper to a streaming service," saidone major label source. "So when you buy a song for $1.29, and you put it in your library, iTunes might send an e-mail pointing out that for a total of, say, $8 a month you can access that song plus all the music in the iTunes store. It's all in the 'what if' stage." Still, there is no official announcement from the company, so all the android users can wait till the company uncover the reality.

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Moto 360- Smartwatch For Gadget Lovers

The information about the specs, hardware and swappable watch bands of Moto 360 smartwatch has leaked online although Motorola Mobility tries to put cover on its details before releasing. Motorola has only said that the latest smartwatch has a circular design powered by Android Wear and will not have USB or any other ports. The release date is sometime “this summer.”

Looking at the picture of latest smartwatch, we come to know the Moto 360 watch’s band options, including many different colored leathers. In previous image, we showed the Moto 360 in a steel band, and in brown leather. According to some sources, it seems that leather bands for the Moto 360 will be offered by Motorola in many different colors like white, light green, shades of brown and so on.

Motorola has not announced the price of the Moto 360 smartwatch, although, we are thankful to the premium steel case that encloses the watch and inclusion of leather and steel bands. It is expected that the cost of Moto 360 is higher or equivalent to, its smartphones. If we are looking at the LG G Watch design, we find that it created with more plastic and glass rather than metal in its body.

Rumor also says that Motorola us to using sapphire for the Moto 360 watch’s face, as opposed to cheap things like Corning Inc’s Gorilla Glass. It is featured an OLED screen that costs more than other LCD technologies. As the screen will have to be specially made, it can be easily connected to the round design of the Moto 360.

It is rumored that Motorola releases its smartwatch with only one band that allows customers to select their style at the approximate cost of $329 and up. The Moto 360 will not transmit through metallic materials that is why, Motorola selected plastic. Furthermore, solar or self-winding chargers could be used by Motorola to supplement wireless charging in the Moto 360, and thus, increasing in amount of battery life. Let’s wait and see what Motorola brings for its users in Smartwatch.

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Coming Soon: Android 4.4.3 KitKat update On the Way

According to well-known developer, LlabTooFeR, Google is supposedly testing a new Android 4.4.3 KitKat update with build KTU72B. Many nexus devices like the Nexus 5 are facing inherent software issues such as camera bug and battery-life problems that follow the Android 4.4.2 update. Therefore, the users of Nexus 5 have been complaining of excessive CPU usage when they are using camera that ultimately consumes more battery life.

But the good news is the new Android 4.4.3 update with build KTU72B that already comes with the existing camera bug fix that found in Nexus 5 devices. "Android 4.4.3 is under testing. Build number is KTU72B. Probably it will fix known camera bug," written in LlabTooFeR latest Twitter update. Folks are finding the main cause of camera bug and it is determined the background apps that continually connect the camera app service.

If any users want to overcome from this problem, then rebooting the device and uninstalling third-party apps, advised by some Industry experts. It also hinted by Google about the camera bug on Nexus 5 devices with its upcoming updates. However, it is not confirmed the inherent software bugs will be fixed by the Android maker through incremental updates or a major Android 4.4.3 release or not.

Nexus devices including Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 are also waiting for a bug-fix update with upcoming releases. With available details, we can assume that KitKat build KTU72B comes with a minor bug-fix update that only for camera bug. Except this, we don’t have any information related to enhancements and other fixes, which are expected from the upcoming release, Android 4.4.3. Before some days, we have seen the Nexus 5 that runs on Android KitKat update with build number KTU65.

So, it simply means that the highly-anticipated bug-fix update will be unleashed by Google for its Nexus devices in the near future. But the question is when?

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