Android Wear Developer Preview is available now

Android Wear extends the Android platform to a new generation of wearable devices. The Android Wear Developer Preview is available now, to let you create wearable experiences for your existing Android apps and see how they will appear on square and round Android wearables. Later this year, the Android Wear SDK will be launched, enabling even more customized experiences.

In the coming months we’ll be launching new APIs and features for Android wearables to create even more unique experiences for the wrist:

• Build Custom UI
  - Create custom card layouts and run activities directly on wearables.
• Send Data
  - Send data and actions between a phone and a wearable with a data replication APIs and RPCs.
• Control Sensors
  - Gather sensor data and display it in real-time on Android wearables.
• Voice Actions
  - Register your app to handle voice actions, like "Ok Google, take a note."

Get Started with the New Android Wear Developer Preview NOW.

The Android Wear Developer Preview provides tools and APIs that allow you to enhance your app notifications to provide an optimized user experience on Android Wear.

With the Android Wear Developer Preview, you can:

• Run the Android Wear platform in the Android emulator.
• Connect your Android device to the emulator and view notifications from the device as cards on Android Wear.
• Try new APIs in the preview support library that enhance your app's notifications with features such as voice replies and notification pages.

Caution: The current Android Wear Developer Preview is intended for development and testing purposes only, not for production apps. Google may change this Developer Preview significantly prior to the official release of the Android Wear SDK. You may not publicly distribute or ship any application using this Developer Preview, as this Developer Preview will no longer be supported after the official SDK is released (which will cause applications based only on the Developer Preview to break).

Upgrade to the latest Google Mobile Ads SDK

A number of enhancements have been added to Android and iOS SDKs to help developers save time, increase flexibility, and capture new opportunities.

Full support for device identifiers
In order to give users better control and to provide you with a simple, standard system to continue to monetize your apps, full support for anonymous device identifiers is introduced within the new iOS and Android SDKs. These identifiers help marketers better reach and engage with the types of users most valuable to them while helping developers improve monetization through higher CPMs and fill rates.

Seamless auto-updates for Android
The Google Mobile Ads SDK is now fully integrated with Google Play Services so you can take full advantage of features and capabilities in each new release of Google Play services, without needing to update your APK. 

Monetize your apps
The Google Mobile Ads SDK fully supports AdMob and DoubleClick for Publishers. Connect with even more advertisers with ad network optimization - now fully supporting JavaScript based ad network tags via the iOS and Android SDKs. 

To get started with our upgraded iOS or Android SDKs, simply visit the Google Developers site and follow the instructions listed.

The standalone AdMob SDK will be deprecated on 1 August 2014

Now that Google Mobile Ads is supported in Google Play services.  The standalone AdMob SDK will be deprecated on 1 August, 2014. Play services supports Advertising ID, and provides seamless updates to Android users.

On 1 August, the Play Store will stop accepting new or updated apps that use the standalone Google AdMob SDK. The standalone SDK does not use the Advertising ID, and will therefore be affected by the Google Play Ad Policy. Google Play services still supports devices that don't have the Google Play store installed on it. The only difference is that devices without the Play Store will not receive automatic updates.

read more: Google Ads Developer Blog - Announcing Deprecation of the Standalone Android Google AdMob SDK

Related: Upgrade to the latest Google Mobile Ads SDK

The Nokia X, X+ and XL

Nokia X products X, X+ and XL announced running Android OS, Visit Nokia X Products web site: http://nokia.com/nokiaXrange


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Google Cast Software Development Kit (SDK) is available now

Starting today, the Google Cast SDK is available for developing and publishing Google Cast-ready apps.

The Google Cast SDK is simple to integrate because there’s no need to write a new app. Just incorporate the SDK into your existing mobile and web apps to bring your content to the TV. You are in control of how and when you develop and publish your cast-ready apps through the Google Cast developer console. The SDK is available on Android and iOS as well as on Chrome through the Google Cast browser extension. ~ source: Google Developers Blog

This episode provides a brief overview of the Google Cast SDK model, components and how you can get started.

Google Cast SDK Overview

HTC One X and One X+ will not get KitKat update...!!!

It's posted in HTC UK’s twitter account that "the One X+ will not receive further Android updates & will remain on the current version of Android". That means both HTC One X and One X+ will not get KitKat update...!!!

ByeByeHTC

#ByeByeHTC

Build your own phone with Project Ara

Google-owned Motorola launches a project for modular smartphones, Facebook tests new ways to track users, and Barnes & Noble introduces the new Nook GlowLight.

Androidify updated with new holiday outfits

Install Androidify from Google Play

The new Nexus 5, Now available in two memory versions and two colors

The new Nexus 5, now available in two memory versions and two colors, 16GB for $349 and 32GB for $399.

Visit: http://www.google.com/nexus/5/

Google Nexus 5: I Do

Samsung is going to unpack Galaxy Note 3 at Samsung UNPACKED 2013 Episode 2

Samsung UNPACKED 2013 Episode 2 Livestream
Samsung UNPACKED 2013 Episode 2 from the Tempodrom in Berlin where we will unveil the next-generation products. Livestream begins at 19:00 CEST / 13:00 EDT on 4th September, Wednesday.

NEW from IFA 2013: Cyber-shot QX10, QX100 Lens-style Cameras for smartphone photographers

For more info:
http://bit.ly/14ovhww
http://bit.ly/18q8hzG

Bet you've never seen anything like this before! World, meet the Cyber-shot QX10 and QX100 Lens-style Cameras.

These babies will easily link to your smartphone (Android *and* iOS compatible!) and allow you to capture high-zoom, high quality photos which you can immediately share on Facebook, Instagram, and other social networks.

Another cool feature: these lens-style cameras can act as a remote viewfinder, letting you capture unique photos from different angles and perspectives.

Android KITKAT 4.4 -- The future of confectionery

KITKAT's Chief Breaks Officer tells us why KITKAT 4.4 is the future of confectionery.
For more information visit http://www.kitkat.com

New Moto X from Motorola

New Moto X from Motorola

The new Moto X from Motorola is a 4G LTE Android smartphone and features a customizable display, 10 megapixel camera and touchless control.

VirtualBox 4.2.16 released with Windows 8.1 Preview supported

VirtualBox 4.2.16 released with Windows 8.1 Preview supported.

See the changelog for what has changed.

Qt 5.1 Released, with Qt for Android & iOS Technology Previews

Qt 5.1 is now available

In addition to that our work to bring Qt to mobile operating systems is showing great results. Even though Qt for Android and Qt for iOS are not yet final, and are marked as technology previews in this release, they are already very usable for a large number of use cases.

Qt for Android supports all Qt modules that are part of 5.1 with the exception of Qt Serialport, Qt WebKit and parts of Qt Multimedia. Qt for Android also comes with a great integration into Qt Creator that allows you to do almost all your development until the point where you want to upload the application to Google Play.

Qt for iOS also already supports the same Qt modules as Android does, with the exception of Qt Quick 2. This is due to limitations in iOS that make it impossible to use V8 as the JavaScript engine on this operating system. We will provide full Qt Quick support on iOS with Qt 5.2.

You can install some demo applications that show Qt on iOS and Android from the App Store and Google Play. For Android we have a new Qt Everywhere demo as well as the Qt 5 launch demo available in Google Play. The blog post about Google Play contains more details about publishing Qt applications in Google Play. For iOS, we have Sub Attack, a small Qt based game and Qt Quicksand published in the app store.

As with any release also this one contains a few issues that we know about and probably some more we haven’t yet found. All of these will be collected on the Known Issues page in our wiki.

Source: Qt Blog

Moto X Coming soon

Moto X. is coming soon, The first smartphone designed, engineered and assembled in the USA is coming. It’s also the first smartphone that you can design yourself. Because today you should have the freedom to design the things in your life to be as unique as you are.

sign-up to receive the update information HERE.