Mobile
Apple Fitness+ Introduces Even More Ways To Make Fitness Welcoming And Inclusive
Apple Fitness+, the first fitness service built around Apple Watch, is introducing even more ways to make fitness welcoming and inclusive to all with brand new workouts geared specifically toward pregnancy and older adults, as well as several new Yoga, High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), and Strength workouts for beginners. These workouts are designed to …
Tools To Help Developers Provide A Positive User Experience
Google helps protect billions of users every day through the use of a robust set of tools designed to keep users safe online. We’re proud to provide a wide range of these same resources to help developers build safe and successful apps. User participation increases when people have a safe and positive app engagement. …
Getting To Know The Behaviors Of Your SDK Dependencies
You likely are using third-party SDKs or libraries in your app. After all, why build functionality from scratch if the building blocks are readily available and can save you time? As an app developer, you are responsible for the overall user experience and code shipped in your app, including those provided by any third-party SDKs. …
High Performance Game Audio With Oboe
We’ve added the Oboe C++ audio library to the Android Game SDK. Oboe’s support of high-performance, low-latency audio across the widest range of Android devices is the right choice for most game developers. Single API On Android devices running Android 8.1 (API level 27) and higher, Oboe takes advantage of the improved performance and …
A Safer Way To Collect Flows From Android UIs
In an Android app, Kotlin flows are typically collected from the UI layer to display data updates on the screen. However, you want to collect these flows making sure you’re not doing more work than necessary, wasting resources (both CPU and memory) or leaking data when the view goes to the background. In this article, …
Building The Future Of Work With Google Workspace
Since we launched Google Workspace last October, we’ve heard from many of our customers—from global enterprises to small businesses—about the new ways they’re connecting, creating, and collaborating, often across living rooms, time zones, and continents. This response propels us on our mission to build for the future with a solution that’s flexible, helpful, and inspires …
Low-Power Sleep Tracking On Android
Android works best when it helps developers create apps that people love. That’s why we are dedicated to providing useful APIs like Activity Recognition which, with the user’s permission, can detect user’s activities (such as whether a user is biking or walking) to help apps provide contextually aware experiences. So much of what we …
From PC To Mobile: Lessons In Expanding To Multi-Platform Gaming
Authored by Jen Donahoe, Marketing and Growth lead for Teamfight Tactics (TFT) at Riot Games who shares insights into expanding to multi-platform gaming on Google’s Apps, Games, & Insights podcast. Today, players want their favorite games to be available to them anytime and anywhere. For any game developer recognizing this, means migrating their games from …
Apple Launches Inaugural Entrepreneur Camp For Black Founders And Developers
As part of Apple’s ongoing commitment to empower the Black community and dismantle barriers to opportunity, today the company is welcoming leaders and their teams from 13 app companies as the inaugural cohort of Entrepreneur Camp for Black Founders and Developers. In 2019, Apple held its first-ever Entrepreneur Camp, an immersive tech lab for app-driven …
4 UX Principles That Put People-First
This article is part 2 of a 3 part mini-series on digital wellbeing. The content has been authored and contributed to by the Google Digital Wellbeing Team (Kate Lockhart) and the Google P&E Developer Brand Marketing Team (Lily Sheringham). Keep a lookout for the last article in the series coming soon. The first article in …