Mobile
Insights Into Latin America’s $3.5 Billion Mobile Games Market: Players, Payers, Revenues, Esports & Market Dynamics
This article is part of a partnership between Newzoo and Google. The mobile games market in Latin America is vast and growing, generating $3.5 billion in revenues via consumer spending in 2021, as shown in our new Global Games Market Report (download the free version here). In this article, we will explore some of our actionable …
Improve Your App Mileage With Android For Cars App Library
In April, we announced our first version of the Android for Cars App Library as part of Jetpack, reaching a milestone to let developers publish their navigation, parking, charging apps on the Google Play Store. Today, we’re announcing that version 1.1 is in alpha, which brings the following features to developers: Sign-in template – Allows users to sign …
iOS 14.5 Delivers Unlock iPhone With Apple Watch, More Diverse Siri Voice Options, And New Privacy Controls
iOS 14.5 brings exciting new features to iPhone, including the ability to unlock iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask, more diverse Siri voices, new privacy controls, skin tone options to better represent couples in emoji, and much more. iOS 14.5 builds on the reimagined iPhone experience introduced in iOS 14, and is …
AT&T Debuts The 5G Innovation Studio
The studio will explore new 5G applications and drive further adoption. What’s the news? AT&T is officially opening the doors to a new innovation space – the AT&T 5G Innovation Studio. The studio, located in Plano, Texas, brings together the power of AT&T’s business, consumer and network organizations to accelerate the path to market for …
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 …