Spotify Messages now offers an opt-in Listening activity feature, allowing connected friends and family to see what you are playing in real-time. A new Request to Jam button has been added to chats, ...

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Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...

Let's say that we continue exposing the android activity via some method such as Jni.androidActivity(int engineId). As long as we're running this on the main thread, in a synchronous method, it's fine ...

An upcoming Android update will significantly upgrade the Linux Terminal app, enabling it to run full-fledged graphical Linux programs on supported devices. The feature is currently experimental, ...

Abstract: The recent, rapid development of mobile technology has impacted modern life in significant ways. The ubiquitous utility of Android mobile devices is a perfect example. Android mobile devices ...

Have you ever wondered just how much of your life Google really records? Every single day, Google processes over 3.5 billion searches worldwide. Now imagine that, plus your YouTube views, maps routes, ...

In Android fundamentals 02.2: Activity lifecycle and state, the description of how to do overrides is inconsistant between the manually inserted code and the code generated by android studio and the ...

Abstract: In Android app development, conforming to the activity lifecycle model is imperative to maintain app robustness and reliability as well as avoiding many issues tied to lifecycle state ...