Mobile
Tips For Building A Quality App With Firebase
This article is based on Google’s Apps, Games, & Insights podcast episode featuring Maria Neumayer, Staff Software Engineer at Deliveroo alongside Shobhit Chugh, Product Manager at Firebase. Over the last few years, users’ expectations of apps have increased. First impressions count. An app that crashes, hangs, or drains battery life, probably has a competitor that …
Google Cloud, Nokia Partner To Accelerate Cloud-Native 5G Readiness For Communications Providers
Google Cloud and Nokia announced a global, strategic partnership to bring new solutions for communications service providers (CSPs) that modernize their network infrastructures, build on a cloud-native 5G Core, and develop the network edge as a business services platform for enterprises. Under this partnership, Google Cloud and Nokia will work closely to validate, optimize and …
Samsung Will Gradually Remove Chargers And Earbuds From Future Phones
Samsung is giving itself wiggle room with how it moves forward. Samsung’s future phones will also not come with charging bricks, the company has revealed, but it’s leaving itself some wiggle room. In a Q&A about why it’s no longer including headphones and a charging brick in the box, Samsung says it believes gradually removing the accessories from its phones could …
Handling Click Events In RecyclerView
This is the third in a series of articles which cover the fundamentals of creating and using RecyclerView. If you already have a solid understanding of how to create a RecyclerView, then carry on. Otherwise, consider starting with this post. When displaying a list of data with RecyclerView, you may want to have a response …
Succeeding In 4x Strategy Games
Co-authored by Howard Chen, Developer Growth Consultant at Google Play and David Eckelberry, VP and General Manager at Scopely. They discuss the game genre, how the Scopely team approached Star Trek™ Fleet Command, and how other game developers can find success in the genre on Google’s Apps, Games, & Insights podcast. Read the full Google …
Qualcomm Expands 5G Capabilities To Mobile Devices Powered By New Snapdragon 480 5G Mobile Platform, A First In The Snapdragon 4-Series
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 480 5G Mobile Platform, the first 4-series mobile platform equipped with 5G. Snapdragon 480 continues to help drive further proliferation of 5G, allowing users access to truly global 5G connectivity and series-defying performance to power in-demand productivity and entertainment experiences. “Qualcomm Technologies continues to accelerate 5G commercialization globally …
Developing For Equality And Building Inclusive Apps
No one wants to be an outsider. From big corporations to small businesses, and in our day-to-day lives, being inclusive is now part of how we live and work. This article explains the approach to inclusivity taken at Drops and explores how we brought lesser-known indigenous languages to our learners. Drops: the language game Drops …
Make Your App Shine On Google Play
3 of 3 — Monetize to win and grow to expand your app footprint In the second part of the make your app shine series, we talked about how you can acquire and engage your target audience to build traction and gain more mindshare. Acquisition happens by rethinking some of the marketing elements like discovery, …
Apple Fitness+: The Next Era Of Fitness Is Here, And Everyone’s Invited
Work out any time, anywhere, with the first fitness experience built around Apple Watch Apple Fitness+, the first fitness experience built around Apple Watch, is available today, bringing inclusive and welcoming studio-style workouts to iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV so users can work out anytime, anywhere. Fitness+ intelligently and seamlessly incorporates key workout metrics users …
Verizon Business Brings Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband To SAP Labs
Verizon and SAP have expanded their strategic partnership to develop and test 5G and compute at the edge solutions. Verizon has lit up its 5G Ultra Wideband service at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA. The engagement will leverage a vast partner ecosystem that includes system integrators, technology partners and industry specialists who will work …