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Apple Watch Pride Edition Celebrates The LGBTQ+ Community

Apple is introducing a new Pride Edition Sport Band accompanied by a matching watch face and iOS wallpaper. Celebrating the ongoing movement to protect and advance equality for LGBTQ+ communities around the world, Apple is introducing a new Pride Edition Sport Band accompanied by a matching watch face and iOS wallpaper. Through these efforts, Apple supports and brings awareness to LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations that are working to bring about positive change, including Equality Federation Institute, an advocacy accelerator that is building a network of state-based LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations in the U.S., and GLSEN, an education organization working to end discrimination,…

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Apple Turns (RED) To Raise Visibility For World AIDS Day

Over the past 16 years, Apple and its customers have been part of the global fight to end AIDS. Apple’s partnership with (RED) supports the Global Fund, which provides access to healthcare services to millions of individuals in communities most in need in sub-Saharan Africa — including critical work in rural communities, and support for pregnant women and their families. In the last three years, funding has also been used to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in these communities. Since 2006, more than a quarter of a billion dollars in Apple-supported grants have helped provide care and support services…

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Google Play Coffee Break With Creatrip | Setting Up Your Business For Global Reach

I sat down for a “virtual coffee” with Haemin Yim, founder and CEO of Creatrip, from Korea to discuss starting on the web, setting up the company for global reach, and tips for startups looking to grow. In Haemin’s words “Creatrip is an app that provides a gateway to authentic Korean trends and cultures.” Last year, they took part in the ChangGoo program, an initiative that supports Korean app startups in partnership with the South Korean government. The Creatrip team applied the learnings of the program to continue to grow and now have users from over 100 countries.Here are my key takeaways…

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Telstra Announces Next Generation Adaptive Mobility And Adaptive Networks Solutions

Telstra announced its next generation of connectivity solutions for enterprise customers, giving them greater flexibility and value across its plans and network options. The next evolution of Telstra’s Adaptive Mobility and Adaptive Networks solutions means customers can pick and choose how they connect, in a way that works for their business. Telstra Enterprise Group Executive David Burns said that to compete in today’s digital world, organisations were looking for new ways of working, real time-time collaboration and innovative business models that will keep them on the front foot. “This evolution of our Adaptive Mobility and Adaptive Networks solutions puts all…

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Making Jellyfish Move In Compose: Animating ImageVectors And Applying AGSL RenderEffects 🐠

I love following inspiring people on the internet and seeing what they make — one such person is Cassie Codes, she makes incredible animations for the web. One of her inspiring examples is this cute animated Jellyfish. Animated Jellyfish by Cassie Codes After seeing this and obsessing over it for a while, I kept thinking to myself that this cute little creature needs to come to life in Compose too. So this blog post describes how I went about making this in Jetpack Compose, the final code can be found here. The techniques in here are not only relevant for jellyfish of course……

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Faster Jetpack Compose View Interop With App Startup And Baseline Profile

Jetpack Compose is designed to be interoperable with an existing View-based app. This enables you to take an incremental approach to migrating your existing app’s UI to Compose. While your app is in the middle of migration, and doesn’t yet have a Composable on the home or landing screen, users might notice jank when they navigate to a screen built with Compose. This is because the Compose library is loaded only when it is used for the first time. There is one workaround that has been floating around to add a Composable pixel on the home/landing screen. This workaround ensures that Compose components are warmed…

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Faster Jetpack Compose View Interop With App Startup And Baseline Profile

Jetpack Compose is designed to be interoperable with an existing View-based app. This enables you to take an incremental approach to migrating your existing app’s UI to Compose. While your app is in the middle of migration, and doesn’t yet have a Composable on the home or landing screen, users might notice jank when they navigate to a screen built with Compose. This is because the Compose library is loaded only when it is used for the first time. There is one workaround that has been floating around to add a Composable pixel on the home/landing screen. This workaround ensures that Compose components are warmed…

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Mobile

Preparing For The Android Privacy Sandbox Beta

In February we announced the Privacy Sandbox on Android, with the goal of bringing new, more private advertising solutions to mobile. Over the course of 2022, we’ve published design proposals and released a number of Developer Previews. We appreciate all of the feedback we’ve received which has helped us refine and improve these proposals. Beginning early next year we plan to rollout the initial Privacy Sandbox Beta to Android 13 mobile devices, so that developers can take the next steps in testing these new solutions. We’ll start with a small percentage of devices and increase over time. Note that Developer Previews will continue to be…

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Emergency SOS Via Satellite Available Today On The iPhone 14 Lineup In The US And Canada

Apple today announced its groundbreaking safety service Emergency SOS via satellite is now available to customers in the US and Canada. Available on all iPhone 14 models, the innovative technology enables users to message with emergency services while outside of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage. Additionally, if users want to reassure friends and family of their whereabouts while traveling off the grid, they can now open the Find My app and share their location via satellite. Emergency SOS via satellite is available in the US and Canada starting today, November 15, and will come to France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK…

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Raising The Bar On Technical Quality On Google Play

App quality is the foundation of everything we do at Google Play. Android users expect a great experience from the apps and games they download, so we’re making higher-quality titles more visible on the Play Store, as well as steering users away from lower-quality ones. Some apps and games that don’t meet our quality bar will be excluded from prominent discovery surfaces such as recommendations, while others may display a warning on their store listing to set appropriate user expectations. One of the most important ways to boost your app quality and attract more users is to focus on technical…

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