Google and Apple update their Bluetooth-based pandemic tracing Exposure Notifications System, following feedback from early implementations by health authorities tackling Covid-19.
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Google and Apple release Exposure Notification API for contact tracing
Google and Apple announce the release of their Exposure Notification API to support contact tracing attempts in the current pandemic.
Android gets TalkBack virtual braille keyboard
Android will soon have a new built-in virtual braille keyboard. It's designed to let you type it wherever you may be in an app
Hands of Time shape Flutter Clock Contest
This is exactly why I love Flutter - check out the results of a Flutter clock competition held by Google, in conjunction with Lenovo, to design a dynamic clock face using the graphical toolkit. Not so much Tempus Fugit as Tempus Flutterit...
Droidcon London 2019 returns 24 October
This year the event - the UK's largest Android event - takes place on 24-25 October 2019 (Thursday - Friday). The venue is the Business Design Centre in Islington.
Projects for old Android phones gathering dust…
Reuse is the best form of recycling they say, so this is an interesting one, for the reuse of old Android phones.
Google releases Android 10 for foldable phones, improved privacy
No desert codenames this time, the new release of Android will simply be known as Android 10.
Huawei heralds HarmonyOS, as an Android alternative
Huawei has unveiled its proposed Android alternative, an embedded operating system suitable for a range of devices, from phones to TVs. The chinese technology company was hit by Google severing official Android support as part of the US-China trade wars.
August in the seat to see updated Android Auto
Google is about to roll out the promised update to its Android Auto system, a way of using Android-based devices in a car via a dashboard display.
Google drives new Nav Bar into Android Auto
Just to record this one one, off the back of Google I/O 2019 - Google has refreshed its Android Auto system, its way of using Android based devices in a car via its dashboard display.