Watch this year's episode of The Android Show, including an interview with Android Developer Relations Lead Maru Ahues Bouza covering interesting topics such as our focus on Tablets and Large Screens!
Android 12L is live in AOSP! We're pushing the source to the Android Open Source Project and officially releasing the latest version of Android for Large Screens.
We're releasing version 1.1 of Jetpack Compose, Android's modern, native UI toolkit, continuing to build out our roadmap. This release contains new features like improved focus handling, touch target sizing, ImageVector caching, and support for Android 12 stretch overscroll.
Last year we announced the Wear Tiles API. To complement that Java API, we're excited to announce that support for Wear OS Tiles has been added to Glance, a new framework built on top of Jetpack Compose.
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Sony has now announced a smaller follow-up to last year's Digital Paper E-ink writing tablet, the DPT-RP1. That's according to a new announcement made today via Sony's official blog. The new tablet – also dubbed with Digital Paper branding but sold under the model number DPT-CP1 – seems to be the same basic design as the previous model. However, while that earlier device was sized as close as possible to A4 paper with a 13.3-inch display, the new model drops to A5 with a 10.3-inch display. That should make its use much easier under a wider number of circumstances since it will arguably be easier to hold in one hand while writing with the other. However, there will certainly be other benefits as well. As with the larger model from last year, the new Digital Paper centers around its inclusion of a stylus that works in conjunction with a 1,404 × 1,872 dot E-ink display with 16 levels of grayscale. The display is also specially designed to provide a paper-like feedback to u...
NEW YORK CITY – September 27, 2017 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that its ‘Ostrich’ advertisement won awards in seven categories at this year’s prestigious Clio Awards, including one gold in short film (1-5 min), four silvers in direction, cinematography, animation, and visual effects, and two bronzes in editing and music – licensed. Celebrating its 58 th year, the Clio Awards is one of the top three advertising award festivals along with the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and the New York Festival. It is judged by an international panel of advertising professionals and showcases work that pushes boundaries and establishes new precedents. The commercial tells a story about an ostrich who learns to fly after donning a Samsung Gear VR headset and launching a virtual flight simulator. The campaign taps into the basic human urge to push beyond what is normal and demonstrates the company’s commitment to providing products and services that all...