Episode 222 - Captain Jetset Returns

Guru is back.

Show Notes

In Other News
- Apps that may work without paying for in-flight wifi
- Obama signs executive order to speed chip and pin/EMV standard credit cards in U.S.
- Google releases details of POODLE vulnerability for SSL 3.0.
Platform News
- Google launches invite-only beta for Inbox. Inbox is an attempt to extend the Gmail categories function into a more task-based email
- Google Play Music gets Songza integration for better song recommendations.
- Google now supports FIDO U2F standard/Security Key for two factor authentication.
Lollipop Features
- Material Design
- Notification Improvements – Features to prioritize, quiet time, more intelligent ranking, etc.
- Battery Saver feature
- Encryption turned on by default
- SELinux Enforcing
- Android Smart Lock – trusted device support
- Multiple Users for Phones and a Guest User
- Screen pinning
- New Quick Settings including Screen Rotation
- Improved network handoffs and connection logic
- New Bluetooth peripheral mode
- ART Runtime
- Support for 64-bit
- Lower latency audio input
- Multi-channel audio mixing
- USB Audio support
- Photography – full resolution frames around 30fps, raw support, more low level capture settings
- Android TV and Android Wear
- Ranking of options in share menu
- Hardware keyboard accessory support
Straight From Google
- Implementing Material Design in your Android App
- Getting your Apps Ready for the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9
- AppCompat v21 – Material Design for Pre-Lollipop Devices
App News
- GeekBytes is aiming to be your app to aggregate all Android news. (Play Link)
- Amazon app updated with voice search
- Google updates Earth with smoother 3-d rendering.
- Swiftkey releases material design inspired keyboard themes.
- Llama – Location Profiles removes donation features due new Play Store policies.
- Hangouts now shows Google Voice Calling Credit
- Google Now now shows local police activity.
- Lumific is out of private beta. It goes through photos on your phone, organizes them into events, stacks duplicates, automatically edits, etc. (Play Link)
- Microsoft Garage releases several Android apps. Next Lock Screen(a lock screen replacement app, Journeys and Notes(social app for traveling), CityZen(send info to your local government, if you live in Hyderabad), and Bing Torque(replaces Ok Google on Android Wear)
- JuiceSSH updated with UI overhaul, adds pin to protect accessing sessions, etc. (Play Link)
- Gmail to merge Android Email app in 5.0 version.
- Google Search will be receiving multi-account support for Google Now.
- Google releases Messenger app for Lollipop…for people who don’t want to use Hangouts.

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