Showing posts with label android. Show all posts

Friday, 27 June 2014

Android L :hands on nexus 5

The most striking thing when you start using Android L is the way everything has a new animation attached. Each time your finger comes in contact with the screen, Google’s redesigned apps and system UI spring forth with movement and subtle color changes. It feels much more inviting, and everything is very snappy. In fact, I have yet to see any stuttering in the animations. Perhaps this is the result of getting used to Android’s Holo UI effects for so long (almost three years), but Android L feels alive in a way I wasn’t prepared for.

Thursday, 26 June 2014

Android 5.0 Lollipop Name Allegedly Confirmed!

Lollipop:

That’s apparently the name anyway, though for all we know it could be a complete shot in the dark. After all, there aren’t a whole bunch of dessert names out there that seem to fit very well, and our readers agreed in a survey that Lollipop seems to fit best. A full step up to Android 5.0, instead of Android 4.5, suggests some major changes indeed.

One aspect of Android L, material design, focuses on depth and “digital material” to expand and reform intelligently, the company said.”As part of the L Preview, we’ll now allow developers to specify an elevation value,” Google said, noting that the framework will add virtual light sources and real-time shadows.

Apps can be developed to work easily across all screens, “from your watch, to your laptop, to your television,” Google said. The new APIs include rich, animated touch feedback. Also, all animations on screen will change in a way that “makes sense,” and developers can create animations between apps and activities. In Gmail, for example, there’s a new typography, new animations, and a seamless experience across different screen sizes. With Polymer and the L Preview, developers can also create apps for the Web.

Google also has a new set of style guidelines for best practices and consistent looking apps, The rules will have a home at google.com/design.

Some other tweaks include a brand new phone dialer, which has a ripple touch effect when you touch each tab. The dialer button has a different elevation that makes it look like it’s floating above the user interface. The ripple touch effect animations also appear as you tap each number to dial.

Notifications are changed, too. Notifications are enhanced with new, rich features, and there are new “heads-up notifications,” that let you peek at a notification as you’re doing something, like gaming, and then swipe it away really quick. It also has smart features for authentication. So, if you have an Android Wear smartwatch and it’s nearby, it won’t lock the device.

Android smart watches:LG G,samsung gear,moto 360 unveiled

LG G Watch, Samsung Gear Live, Moto 360 unveiled: Meet the first Android Wear smartwatches!

Want a mini Android display on your wrist? Both LG and Samsung’s first Android Wear smartwatches will be available for purchase starting today, June 25 — and yes, Samsung is now making an Android Wear device. Called the Samsung Gear Live, it looks a lot like its Tizen counterparts.

Sadly, the stunning Moto 360 smartwatch will not be available until later in the summer.

Google will make a full Android Wear SDK available, allowing you to build custom UI, control sensors, tie into voice actions, and send data back and forth to a phone/tablet.

Today, on stage at Google I/O 2014, Google demoed several Android Wear functions that will be available on all Android Wear devices including swiping to dismiss messages and displaying contextual information relevant to the wearer

Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Android- top ten games

Top 10 Android games:

Asphalt 8: Airborne

Usually Gameloft has tried to ape PC games, bringing their distinct console flavour to smartphones, though with mixed results. However, with Asphalt 8: Airborne, Gameloft has a clear winner. It is extremely hard to believe that this game is just given out for free. You will probably never notice the microtransactions, and as casual gamers you can easily launch the app, race and get out quick. With its visceral sense of speed, easy-to-use controls, beautiful tracks and licenced cars, Airborne hits all the right buttons.

Real Racing 3

If Asphalt 8: Airborne is too arcadey for you, and you want something more serious and simulation-like to bring out the motoring aficionado in you, then Real Racing 3 is the best game for you. With jaw dropping visuals that demand a well-equipped Android device and realistic driving along very real circuits and campaigns, Real Racing 3 lives up to its name, literally.

Blood Brothers

Until the popular battle card game on iOS, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, makes it to Android, you can indulge in Blood Brothers. Part board game, part RPG and part card-based game, Blood Brothers is a unique game set in a dark world filled with mythical creatures. If you like your RPGs a bit different, give Blood Brothers a whirl. It won't cost you a thing.

Clash of Clans

Fancy a bit of strategy? Then jump headfirst into Clash of Clans, a realtime multiplayer online strategy game. You can build your village and defend it from attacks and train troops to attack other players. The biggest selling point of the game is the massive online community of players .

Dead Trigger 2

There's no better way to pass a boring train journey than killing scores of zombies. Dead Trigger 2 throws you bang in the middle of a zombie apocaplyse, where you just have to keep on killin’. With simple controls that let you focus on just running-and-gunning and a surprisingly deep crafting system, Dead Trigger 2 is a game you have to have on your smartphone. However, be warned: It’s gory and will need a beefy device to look it’s best.

Dots

Sick of those Candy Crush Saga-type puzzle games that flood your inbox with invites? Dots is a brand new smart puzzle game that not only plays smart but looks the part too. The premise is simple: You just have to join dots of same colours in 60 seconds. You can also connect online and play multiplayer. It is easily a fun and simple game you have to have.

Dungeon Hunter 4

Gameloft’s Dungeon Hunter series has always been the Diablo of mobile gaming. While it may not be as deep, it’s still a fun and frenzied dungeon romp. With four types of characters to choose from, tonnes of weapons and spells, there's a whole lot of loot to be found in Dungeon Hunter 4.

Galaxy on Fire 2

Take to the stars in an unbelievable space sim game, much like the Wing Commander series. In Galaxy on Fire 2, you fly a spaceship in a huge game world, fight, trade and even mine for money. With superb graphics, easy-to-use flight mechanics, challenging dogfights in space and a pretty cool story, this game will put most PC games to shame.

Plants vs Zombies 2

This unique take on the zombie genre has won countless awards. Plants vs Zombies 2 is pure fun from the beginning to the end, and it’s free. Build an army of plants all supercharged with plant food to take on the zombie hordes. Don't let the humorous graphics and cutesy characters fool you, this game needs some serious tactical thinking.

Ready Steady Bang

A supremely simple game that is surprisingly fun. Ready Steady Bang is as simple as a good old gunfight in the good ‘ol western style showdown, where a quick and controlled trigger finger makes all the difference. It can get quite boring playing with bots, but when you get in another player who can play on the same phone your cafeteria fun time will become way more fun. Also, the old school LCD-look works like a charm in this game.

all hooked to it.

Android L

Fresh Android L Pictures Revealed!

Information about Android L, the still unnamed next full version of Android that will follow KitKat, has been slowly trickling out through developer tools. Earlier this month we learned a bit about Quantum Paper, one alleged initiative to redesign parts of Android, and today we have a couple of shots that might show us another look at Android L.

The pictures were published to Reddit by a user named “Doopl” who found them inside of the Chromium Issue Tracker. The shots show a simple, flatter user experience that, as Android Police notes, reflects the look of Google Now cards. The notification bar also simply hovers at the top of the screen without any sort of border, though it’s possible this will change down the road. Also, that bell icon at the top of the screen is allegedly for a new “limited interruptions” feature, Android Police said, that will likely allow you to only allow certain people to contact you at certain times, similar to features already baked into iOS and into the Windows Phone 8.1 beta.

We aren’t expecting Google to discuss Android L at Google I/O, especially since it’s in just a couple of days and there hasn’t been a whole lot of information on the release yet, but it’s possible the company will surprise us. Instead, we think we’ll hear Google talk about plenty of other topics, including Android Wear, Google Glass, Android TV and much more. It’s possible, since applications are now standalone, that we’ll hear about updates to individual apps, too.

Here’s a look at some other “Quantum Paper” changes we might also see with Android L: